The European Commission has announced that it would issue a proposal to amend the European Union (EU) anti-dumping regulation to tackle the forthcoming expiry of the provision in China's Protocol of Accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) which allows WTO Members to derogate from the WTO...

As promised, China brought a WTO dispute against the US and the EU respectively regarding their antidumping laws, which continue to authorise the application of the so-called non-market economy (NME) methodology. This case was initiated one day after the expiry of paragraph 15(a)(ii) of China's...

In 2020 Australia’s political relations with China plumbed new depths. Trade and other economic ties were also hit with disruption. Contributing to this deterioration, and complicating an accurate assessment of the consequences, has been a raft of misunderstandings. This paper demystifies the...

This article contributes to the growing debate about industrial policies and subsidies, the adequacy of the rules of the World Trade Organization (‘WTO’), and future international negotiations of industrial subsidies, using China’s practices in the hightech sector as an illustration....

This article contributes to the growing debate about industrial policies and subsidies, the adequacy of the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and future international negotiations of industrial subsidies, using China’s practices in the high-tech sector as an illustration. Through a...

This article explores who has most skilfully used the rules of the global economic regime — China, or the nations whose companies invest in her? We first analyse China's adoption and implementation of WTO commitments in the auto industry and the cultural goods sector. We then consider the...

This article offers one of the first comprehensive reviews of the evolution of the World Trade Organization (WTO)'s jurisprudence on anti-dumping (AD), focusing on the systemic issue of what flexibility the WTO AD Agreement provides for Member states to tackle market distortions caused by...

For more than seven decades, the multilateral trading system has played an essential role in promoting international cooperation on trade policymaking and dispute resolution. As the WTO is being pushed toward the verge of irrelevance, it falls upon us, who believe in the utility of the WTO and...

The resolution of the issue of what role regulatory purpose might play in adjudicating the consistency of origin-neutral measures under the GATT National Treatment rule is essential to the resolution of the tension between trade liberalization and domestic autonomy with respect to the use of...

This article considers some aspects of the relationship between World Trade Organization law and general public international law. It will consider matters arising in WTO jurisprudence impacting on the relationship between WTO law and general public international law. This article considers,...