On 15 July 2010, the Appellate Body of the WTO circulated its report in EC -- Fasteners. In its report, the Appellate Body, for the first time, adjudicated the issue of non-market economy (NME) treatment towards imports from China and provided plausible interpretations of China's special...

Up to date, the existing WTO jurisprudence in services has not yet provided sufficient guideline to answer the basic questions as to the applicable GATS rules: when a domestic measure is disputed, should it be examined under Article XVI (market access), or Article XVII (national treatment), or...

Research in this paper focuses on three basic but imperative questions. The first question concerns in what pattern ISDS panels have been using the WTO acquis. Part I thus offers a recount of the circumstances in the case law where a number of arbitral panels have engaged with the WTO norms and...