This article elaborates upon ideas contributed to a symposium considering the possible shape of an Asia Pacific Community, including future trade arrangements within an Asia Pacific Community. It suggests some innovations in dispute settlement that could be considered for inclusion in such...

This article addresses NAFTA's environment-related dispute settlement mechanisms and how these might serve as a prototype for other regional integration efforts. The article focuses on a few critical issues with respect to NAFTA's environment-related dispute mechanisms. These are: (1) whether...

On 1 July 2011 the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Korea will become effective. The pact dedicates Chapter 11 to competition and requires the contract parties to undertake to apply their respective competition laws so as to prevent the benefits of the trade...

This short paper examines the decision by a binational panel constituted under Article 1904(2) of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip In Coils From Mexico: Final Results of 2004/2005 Antidumping Review. In the course of clarifying the Chevron and...

In May 2012, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a report on the labeling of tuna in a dispute between the United States and Mexico, known as the US — Tuna II (Mexico) case. The case has attracted a fair amount of attention, but not on the fact that it raised, at an...

In the presence of sunk costs to exporting, preferential tariff liberalization may have a prolonged, dynamic effect on the pattern of a beneficiary country's exports. In particular, preferential tariff liberalization might trigger a geographic spread of exports to third markets outside the...

The paper provides a detailed analysis of the current U.S. - Korea free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations. The currently negotiated U.S. - Korean FTA may offer a legal framework for economic integration between the United States and Korea in the sense that the FTA attempts to bring Korea's...

Chapter 19 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) replaced court review of U.S. antidumping and countervailing duties with binding review by special binational panels of trade experts. It requires these panels to apply the same standard of review that U.S. courts use in trade remedy...

This paper examines the impact of the Free Trade Agreement between Mexico and the European Union (MEUFTA) on trade flows between Mexico and the EU and between Mexico and its NAFTA partners. It also considers the economic and political context in which the MEUFTA was negotiated and some of the...

This timely book examines international trade and investment law at various levels of governance, including unilateral, bilateral, regional, and multilateral arrangements. The author demonstrates that the nature of international trade law is fragmented and cyclical. Whilst not always...