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International Trade Law

Selected Works

2012

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International Trade And Economic Relations In A Nutshell, 5th Edition, Ralph Folsom, Michael Gordon, John Spanogle, Michael Van Alstine Nov 2012

International Trade And Economic Relations In A Nutshell, 5th Edition, Ralph Folsom, Michael Gordon, John Spanogle, Michael Van Alstine

Michael P. Van Alstine

This guide on international trade and investment examines the legal rules governing international trade. Initial chapters deal with the legal and practical environment for multinational enterprises (MNEs) engaged in international trade and investment. The work then analyzes the principal international institutions involved in international trade: the World Trade Organization (WTO) and International Monetary Fund (IMF); the essential rules governing the regulation of international trade, including in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); the system for dispute resolution within the WTO under its Dispute Settlement Body (DSB); restrictions on, and other regulation of, imports, including tariff rates, customs classification …


The Conventional Morality Of Trade, Chin Leng Lim Dec 2011

The Conventional Morality Of Trade, Chin Leng Lim

Chin Leng Lim

This chapter is concerned with the kinds of moral and political arguments that developing countries have made in the name of global justice. Claims for the direct global redistribution of resources have not loomed large in international trade law and regulation. To be sure, they were raised during the failed negotiations for an International Trade Organization (ITO), but the principal tension that has come to the fore in trade law and policy debate is that between the formal rules of nondiscrimination under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the developing countries’ calls for exceptions to those rules. …