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Trade And Environment: An Environmentalist View, Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Trade And Environment: An Environmentalist View, Naomi Roht-Arriaza
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Precaution, Participation And The "Greening" Of International Trade Law, Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Precaution, Participation And The "Greening" Of International Trade Law, Naomi Roht-Arriaza
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Gatt Membership In A Changing World Order: Taiwan, China, And The Former Soviet Republics, Lori Fisler Damrosch
Gatt Membership In A Changing World Order: Taiwan, China, And The Former Soviet Republics, Lori Fisler Damrosch
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My introduction to questions of GATT membership came in 1979 when, as an attorney in the U.S. Department of State, I was immersed in a series of issues concerning trade relations with the People's Republic of China ("China" or "PRC") and Taiwan ("Republic of China" or "ROC"). I kept hearing about the "Chinese seat" in the GATT as if it were some piece of furniture waiting to be taken out of storage and put back in the dining room. The image of a chair is hardly an apt way of visualizing the extraordinarily complex network of legal relationships that exists …
Surveillance Schemes: The Gatt's New Trade Policy Review Mechanism, Petros C. Mavroidis
Surveillance Schemes: The Gatt's New Trade Policy Review Mechanism, Petros C. Mavroidis
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In 1986 the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) launched the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, the most ambitious round of trade negotiations to date. The Contracting Parties to the GATT agreed in the Punta Del Este Declaration to introduce into the GATT system three new sectors for negotiation: services, trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPs), and trade-related investment measures (TRIMs). In addition, for the first time in GATT history, the Contracting Parties agreed to devote a negotiating group exclusively to negotiating the tricky aspects of international trade in agricultural products. Another goal of the …