Guide to WTO and GATT: Economics, Law and Politics

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In this very thorough but highly accessible book, an eminent legal scholar clearly explains today’s system of international trade law and international economic relations as it has evolved over the last seven decades. Focusing inevitably on the major innovations that came with the inception in 1994 of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) with its various Agreements, the analysis also provides in depth commentary on the intense debate over important matters that remain unsettled. Among the aspects of the subject treated in depth are the following: – The WTO dispute settlement mechanism; – Services, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS); – Investments, the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMS); – Intellectual property rights, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs); – Areas still covered by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1947; – The Most Favoured Nation (MFN) concept; – Special provisions relating to agriculture and textiles, Agreement on Agriculutre; – Sanitary and phytosanitary measures; – Technical barriers to trade; – Pre-shipment inspection; and – Import licensing procedures; – WTO, International trade and Human Rights. – Ninth Ministerial Conference, Bali Package and Trade Facilitation Agreement, 2013. The author describes all the major precedent-setting cases in WTO jurisprudence and analyses their effect to date and the trends they have set in motion, particularly as they relate to perceived discrimination against developing nations which must balance their WTO commitments with the structural adjustments demanded by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) regimes. Arguments within the WTO and among scholars over such controversial matters as regulation of competition, setting of labour standards, and environmental controls as well as thorny concerns.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Autar Krishen Koul

Prof. Autar Krishen Koul, Former Dean and Head and Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, presently Vice Chancellor, National Law University, Jodhpur is a scholar of eminence who has been teaching international trade law for the last three decades. He is a Visiting Professor to various Law Schools in India and United States. Prof. Koul's Ph.D. Thesis "The Legal Framework of UNCTAD in World Trade" published by A.W. Sijthoff, Leyden, Netherlands and N.M. Tripathi, Mumbai achieved the distinction of being prescribed as compulsory reading in various Law Schools of the World including London School of Economics and Political Science, London. Prof. Kaul has edited five books and published three books and more than forty articles in Indian and Foreign Journals. Prof. Koul was a Consultant, to the United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations, to University Grants Commission (UGC), to Government of India, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Prof. Koul has participated and presented papers in more than 100 Seminars spanning through his more than three decades of teaching career.

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Title
Guide to WTO and GATT: Economics, Law and Politics
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Edition
6th ed.
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ISBN
9789382823889
Length
678p.
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