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currently covered by the WTO Agreement, such as investment protection, competition policy, labour standards and environmental … contents of all PTAs involving the EC and the US currently notified to the WTO, into 14 'WTO' and 38 'WTO-X' areas, where WTO … provisions come under the current mandate of the WTO, and WTO-X provisions deal with issues lying outside the current WTO mandate …
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Historically, every country had its own accounting standards, each merging to some extent with its local corporate, labor, and tax laws. No matter how undesirable, it was natural to expect differences among nations. Globalization made these differences so impractical that from corporate leaders...
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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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This contribution will focus on the legal system of the United States and will consider the recent bias of the U.S. Congress toward according a non-self-executing character to RIMs to which the United States has become party. It will also consider the theoretical case for according a...
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Federalism and international trade regulation are popular topics in the legal literature, but the intersection of these two topics remains under-examined. This article explores this important intersection by engaging in a comparative analysis of U.S. and Canadian federalism, and by considering...
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In remarks offered during the March 2016 Canada-United States Law Institute Annual Symposium, Professor Colares offered a brief, somber analysis of the weak 2009-16 economic recovery under "liquidity trap" conditions and under a multilateral trade system that eroded trade remedies while global...
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This Article brings to the attention of those public servants involved in the design and negotiation of free trade agreements between the United States and developing countries, such as Colombia, the potential benefits and drawbacks of negotiating in a bilateral forum. Rather than critiquing the...
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This article examines the issue of whether United States antitrust law can be an affirmative tool to help US firms sell products and services into markets that have been closed to foreign competition as a result of either governmental or private barriers to trade. The issue first surfaced in the...
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