Title Regional trade agreements and the WTO legal system / edited by Lorand Bartels and Federico Ortino

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 604 pages) : illustrations Series International economic law series International economic law series (Oxford, England) Contents I. Framework issues -- Economic analysis of regional trade agreements -- The political economy of regional trade agreements -- Constitutional functions of the WTO and regional trade agreements -- II. WTO regulation of regional trade agreements -- Regional trade agreements and domestic regulation: what reach for 'other restrictive regulations of commerce'? -- Mandatory abolition of anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards in customs unions and free trade areas constituted between WTO members: revisiting a long-standing discussion in light of the appellate body's Turkey-Textiles ruling -- Do rules of origin in free trade agreements comply with Article XXIV GATT? -- III. WTO-plus issues in regional trade agreements -- Services liberalization in regional trade agreements: lessons for GATS 'unfinished business'? -- International agreements covering foreign investment in services: patterns and linkages -- TRIPS-plus provisions in FTAs: recent trends -- Competition law and regional trade agreements: an overview -- Is mutual recognition an alternative to harmonization? Lessons on trade and tolerance of diversity from the EU -- The WTO and regional trade agreements as competing fora for constitutional reforms: trade and human rights -- Sustainable-development in regional trade agreements -- IV. Dispute settlement in regional trade agreements -- Dispute settlement in the WTO and RTAs: a comment -- NAFTA dispute settlement: creative experiment or confusion? -- Dispute settlement in European Union free trade agreements: lessons learned? -- Dispute settlement in bilateral trade agreements: the EFTA experience -- Dispute settlement in the proposed East Asia Free Trade Agreement: lessons learned from the ASEAN, the NAFTA, and the EU -- V. Interfaces between the WTO and regional trade agreements -- The EU and its member states in the WTO-Issues of responsibility -- Overlaps and conflicts of jurisdiction between the World Trade Organization and regional trade agreements -- Applicability of WTO law in regional trade agreements: identifying the links -- What role is there for regional international law in the interpretation of the WTO agreements? Summary 'Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO Legal System' introduces the economic & political underpinnings of regional trade agreements, their constitutional functions, & their role as a locus for integrating trade & human rights Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-597) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject World Trade Organization -- Rules and practice SUBJECT World Trade Organization fast World Trade Organization gnd Organisation mondiale du commerce -- Règlements et procédure. ram Subject Foreign trade regulation. Trade blocs. Regionalism. Tariff -- Law and legislation. 83.42 international trade. Droit commercial international. Organisation mondiale du commerce. Accords de libre-échange. Unions douanières. Organisations régionales. Freihandelsabkommen Recht Regionale Wirtschaftskooperation Handelsverdragen. Foreign trade regulation Regionale ontwikkeling. Regionalism Vrijhandelszones. Tariff -- Law and legislation GATT. Trade blocs World Trade Organization. World Trade Organization. Regional trade agreements. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Regionalism. International trade. Commerce extérieur -- Droit. Blocs commerciaux. Régionalisme. Tarif douanier -- Droit. Genre/Form Rules Rules and practice. Form Electronic book Author Bartels, Lorand. Ortino, Federico. LC no. 2006032601 ISBN 9780191695674 019169567X

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