International Standardization and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
International Standardization and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade

Author: Andrea Barrios Villarreal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-10-04

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1108474365

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This work examines the international standardization system generally, with a specific focus on some of the bodies within this system. It also questions the lack of definition regarding several features related to the system, notably an international standardizing body and international standards in the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade.

The WTO and Technical Barriers to Trade
The WTO and Technical Barriers to Trade

Author: Spencer Henson

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13:

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This authoritative volume brings together for the first time the foremost research and commentary on technical barriers to trade. It explores the major theoretical issues associated with analysis of the impact of technical measures on trade in goods and the challenges associated with attempts to quantify impacts on trade flows. Previous empirical analyses of the impact of technical barriers on trade in goods in general are then presented. This is followed by in-depth coverage of the trade effects of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, an area where analysis is particularly challenging. Finally, the volume concludes by exploring institutional efforts to overcome the impact of technical barriers, including harmonization of standards and the role of the WTO. The WTO and Technical Barriers to Trade will be an invaluable source of reference for academics, students and policymakers alike.

The World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization

Author: International Trade Law Center

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-12-31

Total Pages: 3142

ISBN-13: 0387226885

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The editors have succeeded in bringing together an excellent mix of leading scholars and practitioners. No book on the WTO has had this wide a scope before or covered the legal framework, economic and political issues, current and would-be countries and a outlook to the future like these three volumes do. 3000 pages, 80 chapters in 3 volumes cover a very interdiscplinary field that touches upon law, economics and politics.

Harmonization, Equivalence and Mutual Recognition of Standards in WTO Law
Harmonization, Equivalence and Mutual Recognition of Standards in WTO Law

Author: Humberto Zúñiga Schroder

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9041142754

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Standards are a feature of virtually all areas of trade in products and services. Yet, although standards may achieve an efficient economic exchange, they have discriminatory consequences for trading partners when governments formulate or apply them in such a way as to cause obstacles to trade, thus enrolling standards among the increasingly significant ‘non-tariff barriers’ regulated by the WTO. This unique and original study analyses the functions that standards fulfil in the market, their effect on trade, and the legal regime based on harmonization, equivalence and mutual recognition developed by the WTO to deal with standards. The author investigates the way in which both the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures Agreements regulate these three tools, and discusses key topics including: The definition of the concept ‘International Standard’ in the TBT Agreement. Guidelines on equivalence issued by organizations such as the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the World Organization for Animal Health and the International Plant Protection Convention. Parallels between the EC mutual recognition regime and the WTO system. This is the first work on its subject. With its detailed and practical analysis of WTO law on standards, the book is a fundamental reference for practitioners, academics and policy makers in international trade law.

Essentials of WTO Law
Essentials of WTO Law

Author: Peter Van den Bossche

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-02

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1107638933

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This concise and reader-friendly overview of WTO law is essential reading for anyone needing an introduction to this complex field.

The WTO at Twenty
The WTO at Twenty

Author: World Trade Organization

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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This research explores how multilateralism in trade has worked over the past twenty years - and provides some lessons about how it can work in the future. It describes the WTO's achievements across a number of key areas, including: strengthening the institutional foundations of the trade system; widening its membership and increasing participation; deepening trade integration through lower barriers and stronger rules; improving transparency and policy dialogue; strengthening dispute settlement; expanding cooperation with other international organizations; and enhancing public outreach. It concludes that the WTO has achieved much over its first twenty years but the success of the WTO has inevitably given rise to new challenges.

The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization
The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization

Author: Peter Van den Bossche

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-06-10

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 9781139445559

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This is primarily a textbook for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students of law. However, practising lawyers and policy-makers who are looking for an introduction to WTO law will also find it invaluable. The book covers both the institutional and substantive law of the WTO. While the treatment of the law is often quite detailed, the main aim of this textbook is to make clear the basic principles and underlying logic of WTO law and the world trading system. Each section contains questions and assignments, to allow students to assess their understanding and develop useful practical skills. At the end of each chapter there is a helpful summary, as well as an exercise on specific, true-to-life international trade problems.

Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law
Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law

Author: Shin-yi Peng

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-10-14

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1108957153

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Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming economies, societies, and geopolitics. Enabled by the exponential increase of data that is collected, transmitted, and processed transnationally, these changes have important implications for international economic law (IEL). This volume examines the dynamic interplay between AI and IEL by addressing an array of critical new questions, including: How to conceptualize, categorize, and analyze AI for purposes of IEL? How is AI affecting established concepts and rubrics of IEL? Is there a need to reconfigure IEL, and if so, how? Contributors also respond to other cross-cutting issues, including digital inequality, data protection, algorithms and ethics, the regulation of AI-use cases (autonomous vehicles), and systemic shifts in e-commerce (digital trade) and industrial production (fourth industrial revolution). This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.