This is a submission on the Draft Report on Trans-Tasman Roaming issued by the Australian Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the New Zealand of Business, Innovation & Employment in August 2012. The submission addresses the implications of the World Trade...

This short note summarises the key features and implications of the decision of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization concerning Indonesia's complaint against the United States in connection with certain regulations regarding the use of additives and flavours in cigarettes

This draft chapter compares the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) with the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement, reflecting on relevant developments in the Australia-United States relationship including with respect to agriculture and biologic medicines. The chapter focuses on...

This dispute is one of the most important ever decided in the World Trade Organization, providing the only discussion in a WTO Panel or Appellate Body Report to date of the security exception in Article XXI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994. It has significant implications for...

Australia continues to seek closer economic relationships with its Asian neighbours and other countries around the globe, particularly through the conclusion of treaties governing trade and investment matters. Australia’s investment relationship with Japan is underpinned by several such...

Along with many other countries, Australia is considering implementing a tax on digital services to try to capture more of the revenues of digital businesses, which may operate without a substantial physical presence in the country. Although traditional approaches to tax may need wholesale...

This short paper reflects on developments in international trade affecting the security exception in the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The paper cautions against the increasing invocation of the exception in disputes and encourages progress in other areas of trade to avoid a WTO...

Several States have terminated international investment agreements ('IIAs') in recent years — some alarmed at unexpected outcomes in certain investor — State cases, and others simply updating their IIAs as they conclude wider economic partnership agreements. States' attempts to extinguish...

The relationship between the bilateral investment treaty (‘BIT') between Australia and China (1988) and the preferential trade agreement between those countries (‘ChAFTA') (2015) provides an interesting case study of the co-existence of successive treaties under public international law....

This article provides an overview of the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a treaty the parties have described as comprehensive and ambitious, yet also representing a balance of competing interests. The article focuses on the TPP's chapters relating to investment,...