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WTO Agreement, GATT Article XXIV, TRIPS Article 4(d) and free trade agreements. Theses rules affect the lives and health …In the Doha Declaration WTO Members committed themselves to implementing and interpreting the TRIPS Agreement to allow … [TRIPS] Agreement can and should be interpreted and implemented in a manner supportive of WTO Members' right to protect …
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The Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) received much scholarly attention when it was first established in 1989, but has been overshadowed of late by dispute settlement processes. This paper examines the relationship between barriers to trade that are flagged by the World Trade Organization's...
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been notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which in theory quot;regulatesquot; them under Article XXIV of the … General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).1 For example, free trade fever has reached such partners as Chile-China, Japan … which poses systemic risk to the WTO.2Far more than elsewhere in the world, United States free trade agreements in the …
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litmus test for the EU's commitment to the WTO cause. When appropriate, the article draws parallels with existing EU …
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The conclusion of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) constitutes a priority and key component of the new external trade policy of the European Union (EU) and an immediate follow-up to several years of regulatory cooperation between the two global trade powers. In an era of...
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The paper is the final chapter of a textbook on WTO Law published by Law Press, Beijing, in 2012. The textbook contains … multiple chapters on more basic aspects of WTO Law in Chinese. Some of the more advanced chapters are reproduced in English and … law students not only with WTO Law but also with the English terminology. In line with this overall goal, the present …
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This article addresses the relationship between the GATT, the European Community and other RTAs as and when trade in … services and other 'new areas' are incorporated into the GATT framework. The article first discusses the conceptual … privileges accorded RTAs under the existing GATT framework should be extended to new areas and, if so, how far. It is observed …
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The CIS trade regime can be characterised as a mix of, partly overlapping, weak, bilateral, subregional, and multilateral agreements. This is a result of the design of the CIS, which was explicitly constructed to allow its member states to participate in only those parts that they deemed in...
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The political economy of international trade decision-making within the United States is complex and ever-changing. The debates over the merits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the associated efforts of the Obama Administration to obtain Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), highlight...
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hitherto uneven progress in its long-standing bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). The review conducted in this … and regionally followed by a discussion on WTO accession. The next few years, as Syria moves forward, involve challenges …
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