Federalism has been offered as a framework for analysis of the EU legal order, ie as a useful way for thinking about questions of who does what, where and how. Similar questions have been raised in international law. The principle of subsidiarity is amongst legal mechanisms that purport to...

Is the World Trade Organization (WTO) in a legitimacy crisis and might the protracted Doha negotiations be evidence of it? This article understands the notion of ‘legitimacy crisis’ as a severe threat to an institution’s viability due to fundamental shifts in the legitimising ideas...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures gives experts an important role in risk regulation. The risks in this Agreement are narrowly framed in terms of mortality, morbidity or economic damage. However, the impact on life and health...

GATT Article III:4 aims at equal treatment in respect of competitive opportunities of imports and competing domestic products by preventing protectionism. A key question is whether regulations with heavier burdens on imported products than on domestic products and a valid regulatory purpose are...

The paper "Brazil and The WTO informal Dialogue in 2017: History and Achievements" addresses the challenges for the launch, in 2017, of the Informal Dialogue on Investment Facilitation for Development at the World Trade Organization - WTO. It also highlights the importance of enhancing...

Portuguese Abstract: Este trabalho versa sobre a questão da harmonização tributária no Mercado Comum do Sul. No capítulo I, aborda-se o Mercosul, suas origens, seus princípios e atualidades. Aborda-se, também, as fases da integração regional, demonstrando-se que atualmente o Mercosul é...

Objective - This study aims to illustrate the conceptual framework of economic cooperation and integration between OIC countries. It also highlighted on Economic cooperation and integration theory.Methodology - This paper follows descriptive analysis approach to describe the conceptual framework...

Often depicted as a ‘nuclear button’, the significance of the security exceptions to the world trade legal regime goes well beyond an exception that exempts states from legal commitments to trade liberalisation. As a general exception enshrined into the GATT/WTO regime, the national security...

The trade of the Republic of Moldova in a large extent depends on the exports and imports to/from the European Union. The EU enlargement phenomenon is placing the Republic of Moldova on a favorable position, if speaking about the negotiation of the terms and conditions for goods and services...

For nearly two decades, growth of international trade has been underpinned by the development of intermediate goods cross exchanges resulting from a new international division of labour. The share of trade in inputs, also called vertical trade, has dramatically increased. Simultaneously, there...