The China - Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US, the EU and Mexico as claimants on the somewhat unusual issue of export restrictions on natural resources. For the claimants, Chinese export restrictions on various raw materials, of which the...

This work seeks to analyze European efforts at promoting higher standards of IP protection and enforcement through border measures. In doing so, it traces the evolution of EC Regulation 1383/03 and identifies trends in its systemic enforcement against in-transit generic pharmaceuticals. The...

In July 2004, the Working Group on Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy at WTO was made inactive post decision by General Council at Cancun as the proposal to have a formal multilateral framework to enhance the contribution of competition policy to international trade and development...

In this article, I respond to Twining's lecture, ‘Globalisation and Legal Scholarship'. Through an overview of the effect these changes had on the WTO I will describe how a lawyer or scholar of an ‘established transnational field' experienced the phenomenon of globalisation. In the WTO, the...

Rules providing for unrestricted cross-border flow of commercial data and prohibiting the requirement of localization of the data facilities as a condition for conducting business on the territory are often found in the modern PTAs, also being included in the rich negotiating agenda of the WTO...