Tariff negotiations and renegotiations under GATT and the WTO : procedures and practices / Anwarul Hoda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoda, Anwarul, 1938- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization).

World Trade Organization.

Tariff--Law and legislation.

Tariff.

Foreign trade regulation.

World Trade Organization--Rules and practice.

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization)--Rules and practice.

Parliamentary practice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 417 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Over the past seven decades, since the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was established in 1947, there has been a phenomenal increase in international trade in goods, largely due to sustained efforts by the world's main trading nations to reduce and eliminate tariff barriers in a multilaterally orchestrated manner. This publication reviews how the procedures and practices relating to tariff negotiations and renegotiations have evolved over this time. In particular, this new edition recounts how negotiations to expand the duty-free coverage of the Information Technology Agreement were concluded and provides an account of tariff renegotiations regarding successive enlargements of the European Union. It also covers tariff negotiations for the accession of a number of new members to the WTO, such as China and Russia. This book will be of particular interest to negotiators, members of government, trade ministries, economists and academics specialized in trade policy.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Legal framework for tariff negotiations and renegotiations under GATT 1994; 2. Tariff conferences and rounds of multilateral trade negotiations; 3. Bilateral and plurilateral negotiations; 4. Practice and procedures in renegotiations; 5. Schedules of tariff concessions: rectification, modification and consolidation; 6. Conclusions; Appendix A. Key provisions in the Havana Charter and GATT 1994 and related decision and understandings; Appendix B. Decisions and declarations commencing rounds of multilateral trade negotiations; Appendix C. Protocols embodying the results of multilateral trade negotiations; Appendix D. Decisions on procedures on renegotiations, rectifications, modifications and related subjects; Bibliography.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Nov 2018).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108157803

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