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The Depth Of The Trade In Services Agreement, Harold Godsoe
The Depth Of The Trade In Services Agreement, Harold Godsoe
Harold Godsoe
The setting against which plurilateral negotiations toward a new Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) are taking place is frustration. Service liberalization from GATS to bilateral PTAs to the Doha round have proven difficult and/or ineffective. The glaring and unexamined question is: why? This paper examines the current trade literature for what is known about TISA to date and subjects that information to a feasibility analysis for trade in service agreements. My goal is to understand what went wrong in previous attempts to liberalize services and/or trade and, consequently, what might being going wrong in TISA, and how it might be …
Legal Nature Of The Traded Units Under The Emissions Trading Systems And Its Implication To The Relationship Between Emissions Trading And The Wto, Wen-Chen Shih Dr
Legal Nature Of The Traded Units Under The Emissions Trading Systems And Its Implication To The Relationship Between Emissions Trading And The Wto, Wen-Chen Shih Dr
Wen-chen Shih Dr
With regard to the relationship between emissions trading and the WTO, most existing literature focuses on the emissions trading system under the Kyoto Protocol without analysing existing or forthcoming domestic or regional emissions trading systems. Furthermore, these analyses also did not differentiate between different types of emissions trading systems, in particular the possible different legal nature of various types of the ‘units’ that are being traded under different types of emissions trading system. Is this an over-simplified approach in terms of analysing the relationship between emissions trading and the WTO? This is the main research question of this article. By …