This book addresses legal aspects of GATT Article XXIV and its 'internal' trade requirements as they define the WTO gateway for regional trade agreements. The case for a narrow avenue is made by exploring historical foundations in the Havana ITO negotiations and later difficulties of applying provisions to developed-developing country free-trade areas. The external economic effects for the trade of non-members will remain of concern, but rules of origin and regional safeguard regimes can affect intra-regional trade between large and small members as well. The GATT-47 practice is contrasted with WTO developments as dispute settlement reports have established the conditional legal nature of the regional exception. A treaty law argument is made that GATT/WTO rules retain continuing validity for regional members. Implications for the WTO review process are considered.
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The debate over regionalism and the multilateral trading system intensifies in the WTO as dozens of regional trade agreements are declared to be exceptions to GATT's most-favoured nation obligation. Commentators debate whether such agreements are 'stepping stones' to freer world trade, and WTO Members remain unsettled on criteria to determine the compatibility of agreements with the multilateral trading system. This book addresses legal aspects of GATT Article XXIV and its 'internal' trade requirements as they define the WTO gateway for regional trade agreements.
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James H. Mathis J.D, Ph.D, is the academic co-ordinator for the EU International Trade Law (LL.M) program at the Amsterdam Law School and managing editor of the journal 'Legal Issues of Economic Integration' for the Department of International Law at the University of Amsterdam.
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This chapter will lay the historical groundwork for the re-establishment of the multilateral most-favoured nation principle following the Second World War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
regional proponents, completed customs union, other restrictive regulations, tariff assimilation, preferential origin rules, bilateral cumulation, enabling clause decision, regional safeguards, trade between the constituent territories, regional members, diagonal cumulation, commercial policy measures, commercial policy chapter, regional endeavours, single customs territory, full cumulation, affirmative recommendation, trade coverage, customs union members, customs union formation, trade requirement, preferential rules, regional trade agreements, trade deflection, contingent measures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Turkey Panel Report, Overseas Association, Havana Charter, Uruguay Round, European Union, New York, European Community, Journal of World Trade, Vienna Convention, Europe Agreement, United Kingdom, Council Regulation, European Communities, Argentina Panel Report, General Council, Jacob Viner, Hong Kong, Analytical Index, Dispute Settlement Understanding, European Commission, World Bank, Carnegie Endowment, Cordell Hull, European Free Trade Association New!
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regional proponents, completed customs union, other restrictive regulations, tariff assimilation, preferential origin rules, bilateral cumulation, enabling clause decision, regional safeguards, trade between the constituent territories, regional members, diagonal cumulation, commercial policy measures, commercial policy chapter, regional endeavours, single customs territory, full cumulation, affirmative recommendation, trade coverage, customs union members, customs union formation, trade requirement, preferential rules, regional trade agreements, trade deflection, contingent measures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Turkey Panel Report, Overseas Association, Havana Charter, Uruguay Round, European Union, New York, European Community, Journal of World Trade, Vienna Convention, Europe Agreement, United Kingdom, Council Regulation, European Communities, Argentina Panel Report, General Council, Jacob Viner, Hong Kong, Analytical Index, Dispute Settlement Understanding, European Commission, World Bank, Carnegie Endowment, Cordell Hull, European Free Trade Association New!
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- Regional Integration and the Global Trading System by Kym Anderson on 5 pages
- Customs Union Issue by Jacob Viner on 5 pages
- The Gatt: Law and International Economic Organization (Midway Reprint Series) by Kenneth W. Dam on 5 pages
- New Dimensions in Regional Integration by Jaime De Melo on 4 pages
- Guide to Gatt Law and Practice by General Agreement On Tariffs and Trade on page 90, page 268, and Back Matter
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