Case studies in US trade negotiation. Volume 2, Resolving disputes / Charan Deveraux, Robert Z. Lawrence, Michael D. Watkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Devereaux, Charan.

Contributor:

Lawrence, Robert Z., 1949-

Watkins, Michael, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (1994 April 15).

Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.

International trade.

Foreign trade regulation--Cases.

Foreign trade regulation.

United States--Commercial policy--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 377 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Institute for International Economics, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between 1992 and 2000, US exports rose by 55 percent. By the year 2000, trade summed to 26 percent of US GDP, and the United States imported almost two-thirds of its oil and was the world s largest host country for foreign investors. America s interest in a more open and prosperous foreign market is now squarely economic. These case studies in multilateral trade policymaking and dispute settlement explore the changing substance of trade agreements and also delve into the negotiation process the who, how, and why of decision making. These books present a coherent description of the facts that will allow for discussion and independent conclusions about policies, politics, and processes. Volume 2 presents five cases on trade negotiations that have had important effects on trade policy rulemaking, as well as an analytic framework for evaluating these negotiations."

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Cases

Barriers to Negotiated Agreement

Designing Dispute Resolution Systems

Dispute Resolution in the Trading System

Gaming the System

Questions to Consider

Ch 1 Food Fight: The United States, Europe, and Trade in Hormone-Treated Beef

Background

The Ban

Hormones and International Institutions

Internal Politics and a Failure to Ease Tensions

The Ban Goes into Effect and the United States Retaliates

Changing the Rules

The United States Tries Again

Back to the Future

Retaliatory Tariffs and a Stalemate

The Standoff Continues

Case Analysis

Appendix 1A Timeline of Key Events in the Beef Hormones Case

Appendix 1B The WTO Panel Process

Appendix 1C WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (1994), Selected Articles

Ch 2 Banana Wars: Challenges to the European Union's Banana Regime

A Fruit of Historic Importance

Regulation 404

US Section 301

Taking the Case to the WTO

The WTO Panel Reports

The Road to Compliance

An Elusive Resolution

Striking a Deal

Appendix 2A Regulation 404

Ch 3 Snapshot: Kodak v. Fuji

Background on Kodak and Fuji

Antitrust and Trade Frameworks

Kodak Takes Action

Fuji Responds

The Agencies Take Action

Judgment in Geneva

Appendix 3A Changes in film distribution in Japan

Appendix 3B Japan

-Measures Affecting Photographic Film and Paper First Submission of the United States of America, February 20, 1997

Ch 4 Standing Up for Steel

A History of Trade Remedies

History of Restructuring

The 1998 Steel Crisis

A Brief Recovery

A Further Fall

A New Administration

The World Reacts

A Period of Consolidation

The WTO Rules

Case Analysis.

Ch 5 Brazil's WTO Cotton Case: Negotiation Through Litigation

The Change Maker

Pedro de Camargo Neto's Background

Brazil Mounts a Case

The West African Cotton Sectoral Initiative

Ripple Effects: The WTO Dispute Panel Ruling

Implications of the Panel Ruling

Brazil Wins the Appeal, but Negotiations Stall

Where to Go from Here?

Appendix 5A WTO Disputes Panel Findings: US Subsidies for Upland Cotton

Appendix 5B Timeline of Key Events in Brazil's WTO Disputes

Appendix 5C The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture

Appendix 5D US Farm Policy

Appendix 5E The World Cotton Market

Appendix 5F The Impact of a 20 Percent Reduction in Overall Trade-Distorting Support: The United States, the European Union, and Japan

Ch 6 Agricultural Biotechnology Meets International Trade: The US-EU GMO Dispute

Part I: Technology and Regulation

Part II: A Case at the WTO

Appendix 6A Timeline of Key Events in the GM Crop Dispute

Appendix 6B Excerpts from Annexes B and C of the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

References

Additional Readings

Introduction to the Current Dispute Settlement System

WTO Rules and Their Application in WTO Law

Analysis of the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Conflict Resolution and Design of the Dispute Resolution System

Hormone-Treated Beef

Bananas

Kodak v. Fuji

Steel

Cotton

Genetically Modified Organisms

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-06096-8

9786611060961

1-4356-0917-4

OCLC:

247966289