Liberalizing international trade after Doha : multilateral, plurilateral, regional, and unilateral initiatives / David A. Gantz, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gantz, David A., author.

Series:

Cambridge international trade and economic law ; 15.

Cambridge international trade and economic law ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Trade Organization.

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947 October 30).

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

Foreign trade regulation.

Free trade.

International trade.

Commercial treaties.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 376 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

After ten years the Doha Development Round is effectively dead. Although some have suggested that Doha's demise threatens the continued existence of the GATT/WTO system, even with some risks of increasing protectionism, the United States, the European Union, Japan, Brazil, China and India, among others, have too much to lose to make abandoning the WTO a rational option. There are alternatives to a comprehensive package of new or amended multilateral agreements, including existing and future 'plurilateral' trade agreements, new or revised regional trade agreements covering both goods and services, and liberalized national trade laws and regulations in the WTO member nations. This book discusses these alternatives, which although less than ideal, may provide an impetus for continuing trade liberalization both among willing members and in some instances worldwide.

Contents:

Introduction: Pursuing trade liberalization in a post-Doha world

The world trading system under GATT and the WTO, 1947-2012

The Doha round failure and the likely demise of the "single undertaking"

Assisting developing nations with duty-free, quota-free market access, trade facilitation, and related initiatives

Preserving the environment: fisheries subsidies and trade in environmental goods

New and expanded plurilateral agreements (part I)

New and expanded plurilateral agreements (part II): an international services agreement

Continued proliferation of regional trade agreements

Widening and deepening (or disregarding) existing RTAs

Concluding new and pending RTAs (part I)

Concluding new and pending RTAs (part II): the Trans-Pacific partnership

Unileteral approaches to trade and market liberalization

Conclusions and the crystal ball.

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ISBN:

9781139525282

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