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Negotiating Investment In The Gatt: A Call For Functionalism, Paul Bryan Christy Iii
Negotiating Investment In The Gatt: A Call For Functionalism, Paul Bryan Christy Iii
Michigan Journal of International Law
In part, this article is about the conflict between literalism and functionalism in the GATT. It examines an attempt in the Uruguay Round to negotiate rules on foreign direct investment - the so-called trade-related investment measures (TRIMs) negotiations. Foreign direct investment is often a stage in the internationalization of enterprises; it is helpful to the trade of goods producers and necessary to the trade of many services providers. Affected by the output-oriented history of the GATT, however, the Contracting Parties have treated investment as though it were simply one of three legs of an economic triangle: goods, services, investment. In …
Can Antidumping Law Apply To Trade In Services?, Hideaki Kubo
Can Antidumping Law Apply To Trade In Services?, Hideaki Kubo
Michigan Journal of International Law
In this paper, the author will investigate whether current U.S. antidumping law can apply to trade in services. Because service industries vary significantly in nature, the author takes an industry-specific approach, selecting three service industries - insurance, banking, and construction - and discussing possible problems in applying the U.S. antidumping law to these industries.