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Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) between the European Union (EU) and trade partners go far beyond mere elimination of tariffs to include such diverse issues as non-tariff barriers, competition legislation, investment protection, and more. Implementing such provisions requires deep institutional and...
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With the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, the pyramidal design of the international trading … economic policies of WTO Member States at the bottom of the pyramid. This article questions whether this vertical structure is … that the WTO is losing its centrality in the international trading system. The thesis of this article is that the …
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, sometimes resulting in non-compliance with the World Trade Organization (WTO) doctrines of market access and national treatment …. Different WTO Members set different strategies for services liberalization, reflected in their GATS or other negotiating …
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In the context of a current global economic crisis and an unfinished World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round … impact on the international trading system, the debate about regionalism and multilateralism, and the policy of the WTO …
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Against the backdrop of the concomitant food, financial and economic, and climatic crises, African countries continue to negotiate the challenging Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the European Union (EU). While these new agreements have the potential to help African countries...
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The Eurasian Economic Union (‘EAEU') – an international organization of regional economic integration in post-Soviet space – has a judicial body aimed at ensuring uniform application of law. This article argues that the EAEU Court will struggle in achieving its aim as there are issues of...
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Pursuant to Article 50 TEU, Member States may decide to leave the EU, but EU law—including the principle of “sincere cooperation”—continues to apply while withdrawal negotiations take place. This creates a fundamental and underappreciated difference between withdrawal negotiations with a...
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This study is a section from the Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA), commissioned by the European Commission, on the impacts of the Investment Chapter in the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The Investment Chapter in CETA could encourage economic benefits...
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presents different mechanisms that have been used in the investment arbitration context to aid legal arbitrators with … arbitration tribunals, and inter-state arbitration tribunals), the article concludes that incorporating arbitrators with …
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