Whether private parties and NGOs should participate in the WTO system has recently become one of the most contentious issues in trade law and policy. However, this debate proceeds from the implicit - but mistaken - assumption that these entities currently do not participate in the system. While,...

Although there are a lot of arguments for and against of NGO's participation in the WTO, it can be argued that NGO's already play an important role in the process and work of the WTO. Not withstanding the lack of detailed provisions in WTO law towards NGO's participation in activities of WTO,...

The subject of this paper is Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 of the United States, a statute that for the past 35 years has allowed the U.S. to unilaterally handle its trade disputes. More specifically, the paper examines the constraining and supporting effects of the multilateral trading...

The greatest challenge for the EU in trying to identify an optimal response is understanding the motives behind the US strategy. The rhetoric, and more recently also actions, of the current US administration on trade and the global multilateral system are a real threat to the process of...