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Asean & South Asia; Victims & Winners In Textiles & Clothing Trade After Quota Expiry, Umair Ghori
Asean & South Asia; Victims & Winners In Textiles & Clothing Trade After Quota Expiry, Umair Ghori
Umair H. Ghori
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Wto Nama Negotiations & The Global Textiles & Clothing Trade: Reconciling The Irreconcilable Amid The Financial Meltdown, Umair H. Ghori
Wto Nama Negotiations & The Global Textiles & Clothing Trade: Reconciling The Irreconcilable Amid The Financial Meltdown, Umair H. Ghori
Umair H. Ghori
Textiles & Clothing (T&C) is a sector of world trade that is critical to the sustenance of developing economies. This sector is not only important in terms of export earnings but also in terms of providing employment to millions of people. With the end of quotas on 1 January 2005, this sector was integrated into the GATT/WTO framework. This entailed a process of readjustment for many countries that are overwhelmingly dependent on T&C to sustain economic activities especially those that do not possess comparative advantage in T&C manufacturing and owed the existence of these industries solely on the basis of …
Rising To The Challenge: Asian Survivors Of The Quota Expiry In Global Textiles And Clothing Trade, Umair Ghori
Rising To The Challenge: Asian Survivors Of The Quota Expiry In Global Textiles And Clothing Trade, Umair Ghori
Umair H. Ghori
Developing countries, including least developed countries (LDCs), extensively rely on textiles and clothing (T&C) industry for employment and export earnings. They face serious adjustment challenges in post – quota expiry period. The available statistics have proven that many pre-elimination predictions were inaccurate and that the current state of affairs raises particular legal issues for these countries especially those considered in this article. The aim of this article is to briefly highlight major issues in the context of the evolving global trade in T&C from an Asian developing country perspective after expiration of quotas. The article would also assess some of …
Biofuels, Subsidies, And Dispute Settlement In The Wto, Bryant Walker Smith
Biofuels, Subsidies, And Dispute Settlement In The Wto, Bryant Walker Smith
Bryant Walker Smith
The first WTO panels to tackle a biofuels dispute under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures will navigate a murky sea of conflict, gridlock, and uncertainty that the subsidies agreement did not contemplate and that the failed Doha round did not resolve. This article charts these waters. It identifies both the values that the panels will confront and the interpretive tools that they will wield. It further argues that dispute settlement may become the primary driver of an otherwise stagnant regime, and it sketches three competing visions for protecting the “legally binding security of expectations” that underscores that regime.