Trade in Goods

2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-968975-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 944 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1598 g

This new edition of Trade in Goods is an authoritative work on international trade by one of the most influential scholars in the field. It provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of every WTO agreement dealing with trade in goods. The focus of the book is on the reasoning behind the various WTO agreements and their provisions, and the manner in which they have been understood in practice. It introduces both the historic as well as the economic rationale for the emergence of the multilateral trading system, before dealing with WTO practice in all areas involving trade in goods. It contests the claim that the international trade agreements themselves represent 'incomplete contracts', realized through interpretation by the WTO and other judicial bodies. The book comprehensively analyses the WTO's case law, and it argues that a more rigorous theoretical approach is needed to ensure a greater coherence in the interpretation of the core provisions regulating trade in goods.

This second edition readdresses and moves beyond the discussion of the GATT presented in the first edition to assess in significant detail every trade in goods agreement at the WTO, both multilateral as well as plurilateral. The book is written to be accessible to those new to the field, with an authoritative level of detail and analysis that makes it essential reading for lawyers and economists alike.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars working in international economic law and the economic analysis of international trade; practitioners and policy-makers working in international trade; economists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mavroidis, Petros C.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationaler Handel
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: From GATT to the WTO

- 2: Disciplining Trade Instruments in the GATT

- 3: Most Favoured Nation and Exceptions

- 4: Domestic Instruments

- 5: Deviating from WTO Obligations

- 6: Agreements Dealing with Customs Procedures

- 7: Antidumping

- 8: Subsidies

- 9: Safeguards

- 10: Technical Barriers to Trade: Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary Measures

- 11: Agreement on Agriculture; Agreement on Textiles and Clothing

- 12: Government Procurement

- 13: Transparency

- Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Petros C. Mavroidis is Edwin B. Parker Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and a Professor of Law at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). He acted as Chief Reporter for the American Law Institute (ALI) project on WTO entitled 'Principles of International Trade: the WTO'.