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International Trade Law

Vanderbilt University Law School

2001

Multilateral trade agreements

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The World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Resolution In United States--Anti-Dumping Act Of 1916, Jeffrey S. Beckington Jan 2001

The World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Resolution In United States--Anti-Dumping Act Of 1916, Jeffrey S. Beckington

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The evolving jurisprudence of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a fascinating phenomenon still in its early stages. That it exists is testament to a recognition by the WTO's Member States that a substantial ceding of national sovereignty to the WTO is necessary, or at least advisable, in order to support an international mechanism designed to facilitate and maintain orderly trade in goods and services across national boundaries. This partial relinquishment of jurisdiction, however, understandably has been accompanied by certain misgivings and hedging by Member States individually and particularly by the United States.

The boldness and tension underlying the political …