Reshaping the World Trading System

Reshaping the World Trading System

Author: John Croome

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1996-06

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0788130463

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Tracing the history and evolution of the Uruguay Round, this book seeks to explain how it came about, why it covered the subjects it did, what the participants sought, & the twists, turns, setbacks & successes in each sector of the negotiations.


The History and Future of the World Trade Organization

The History and Future of the World Trade Organization

Author: Craig VanGrasstek

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13:

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The History and Future of the World Trade Organization is a comprehensive account of the economic, political and legal issues surrounding the creation of the WTO and its evolution. Fully illustrated with colour and black-and-white photos dating back to the early days of trade negotiations, the publication reviews the WTO's achievements as well as the challenges faced by the organisation, and identifies the key questions that WTO members need to address in the future. The book describes the intellectual roots of the trading system, membership of the WTO and the growth of the Geneva trade community, trade negotiations and the development of coalitions among the membership, and the WTO's relations with other international organisations and civil society. Also covered are the organisation's robust dispute settlement rules, the launch and evolution of the Doha Round, the rise of regional trade agreements, and the leadership and management of the WTO.


Reshaping the World Trading System : A History of the Uruguay Round

Reshaping the World Trading System : A History of the Uruguay Round

Author: John Croome

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-08-09

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9789041196743

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The Uruguay Round, perhaps the most ambitious programme of worldwide negotiations ever attempted on any economic subject, lasted over seven years from 1986 to 1994. The success of the Uruguay Round has defined the shape of the world trading system for the next generation. The agreements reached have set in place a new World Trade Organization and new rules for trade and economic development worth hundreds of billions of dollars in the years ahead. This book traces the history and evolution of the Uruguay Round. It seeks to explain, in an accessible and non-technical way, how the Uruguay Round came about, why it covered the subjects it did, what the participants sought, and the twists, turns, setbacks and successes in each sector of the negotiation.


Mega-regional Trade Agreements

Mega-regional Trade Agreements

Author: Stefan Griller

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0198808895

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This volume brings together leading experts in the field of international economic law to address the legal complexities of the TTIP, CETA, and TISA treaties and provide an explanation of their core principles. This book also addresses the controversies surrounding the treaties, including their regulatory ambition and insufficient transparency.


Wto - Trade In Services

Wto - Trade In Services

Author: Rüdiger Wolfrum

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 9004145680

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With the establishment of the WTO, trade in services became part of the world trade order. Volume 6 is dedicated to these rather recent developments. It covers the core agreement, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) with annexes, as well as the additional instruments , which have been adopted later on to govern the liberalization in specific sectors. Those are the Understanding on Commitments in Financial Services, the Second Protocol on Financial Services, the Third Protocol on the Movement of Natural Persons, the Fourth Protocol on Basic Telecommunications and the Fifth Protocol, which contains further rules for financial services. This volume will be a valuable reference tool for the WTO community as a whole, as well as for professionals and researchers, who deal with one of the sectors concerned, e.g. financial services and telecommunications. Furthermore, it is highly relevant in view of those sectors, which are the subject of ongoing liberalization efforts or earmarked for future negotiations, namely accounting, legal services, transport, tourism, environmental services, legal and educational services.


Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations

Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations

Author: Paul Blustein

Publisher: Public Affairs

Published: 2009-09-22

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1586487183

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An acclaimed expert on the global economy illuminates the human foibles, hidden agendas, and political follies that threaten the end of the globalization movement.


Emerging Powers and the World Trading System

Emerging Powers and the World Trading System

Author: Gregory Shaffer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-07-22

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 110885849X

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Victorious after World War II and the Cold War, the United States and its allies largely wrote the rules for international trade and investment. Yet, by 2020, it was the United States that became the great disrupter – disenchanted with the rules' constraints. Paradoxically, China, India, Brazil, and other emerging economies became stakeholders in and, at times, defenders of economic globalization and the rules regulating it. Emerging Powers and the World Trading System explains how this came to be and addresses the micropolitics of trade law – what has been developing under the surface of the business of trade through the practice of law, which has broad macro implications. This book provides a necessary complement to political and economic accounts for understanding why, at a time of hegemonic transition where economic security and geopolitics assume greater roles, the United States challenged, and emerging powers became defenders, of the legal order that the United States created.


OECD Insights International Trade Free, Fair and Open?

OECD Insights International Trade Free, Fair and Open?

Author: Love Patrick

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2009-05-19

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 926406026X

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Argues that prosperity has rarely, if ever, been achieved or sustained without trade. Trade alone, however, is not enough; policies targeting employment, education, health and other issues are also needed to promote well-being and tackle the challenges of a globalised economy.


Trade Politics

Trade Politics

Author: Brian Hocking

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0429943822

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Trade has always been an intensely political activity. Its conduct determines the well-being of entire national communities, and expansion of trade since the Second World War has been one of the major engines of world economic growth. In this new, fully updated edition, leading experts from around the world provide a comprehensive overview of the politics of international trade in the twenty-first century. The book explains the changing political environment in which trade policy is shaped, the core political issues, the future trade agenda and the role of the key actors. Subjects covered include: transatlantic trade relations regional trading agreements in Asia, Europe, North America and Latin America how trade affects developing countries the politics of the World Trade Organization key policy areas such as agriculture, competition and intellectual property the role of firms and governments in international trade how trade impacts on human rights and the environment.