The WTO contract is essentially a government contract with important repercussions on private parties` interests. WTO Members enjoy wide discretion when it comes to regulating the way in which private interests will be represented; the WTO contract itself imposing only an obligation to perform the...

This article discusses the National Treatment (NT) obligation as applied in the GATT tax discrimination cases. The central thesis of the paper is that case-law has not clarified the interpretation of the terms in Article III. It appears that the reason for this failure is the lack of a...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Annex 1A Agreements Dealing with Customs Procedures -- 1.1 Clearing Goods through Customs -- 1.2 ILA -- 1.3 CVA -- 1.4 The Agreement on Preshipment Inspection (PSI) -- 1.5 Trade Facilitation -- 1.6 Concluding Remarks -- 2 Antidumping -- 2.1 The...