Supplying compliance with trade rules : explaining the eu's responses to adverse wto rulings / Alasdair R. Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Alasdair R., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conflict of laws--Foreign trade regulation--European Union countries.

Conflict of laws.

Foreign trade regulation--European Union countries.

Foreign trade regulation.

European Union.

World Trade Organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This volume explains how international law affects domestic policies by examining whether, why, and how the European Union changed policies that were challenged successfully under WTO rules.

Contents:

Cover

Supplying Compliance with Trade Rules: Explaining the EU's Responses to Adverse WTO Rulings

Copyright

Preface

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Boxes

List of Abbreviations

List of Appendices

1: Introduction: Supplying Policy Change

The Meaning of Compliance and the Impact of International Institutions

Why Do International Institutions Matter?

Causal Mechanisms and Expectations

Issues with the Existing EU WTO Compliance Literature

Analyzing the Influence of International Institutions

A Focus on Inconvenient Obligations

Policy Change as the Outcome

Case Studies: Taking Causation Seriously

Motivations Revealed Through Reason Giving

Evaluating Conditions Across the Population of Cases Through QCA

The WTO and EU as Subjects of Study

Overview of the Rest of the Volume

Notes

Appendix 1: Interview Subjects

2: The EU and the WTO: It's Complicated

The Effectiveness of the WTO

The WTO's Dispute Settlement Process

The Effectiveness of WTO Dispute Settlement

The EU as a Distinctive International Actor?

The EU's Role in Shaping the WTO².

The EU's Continuing Commitment to the WTO

The EU and the WTO in Practice

The EU and First-Order Ccompliance: Game, But Within Limits

The EU and Second-Order Compliance: Fairly Typical

Conclusion

3: The Limits of Demand-Side Explanations

Outcome: Policy Change and its Quality

Conditions: Power, Policy, and Vetoes

QCA: Pointing the Way

The Puzzle of Power

Preliminary Conclusions

Case Selection and Justification

Appendix 3A: Conditions and Coding

Appendix 3B: All adverse rulings against the EU with reasonable periods of time expiring before the end of 2019

4: Beef: Technical Adjustment and the Persistence of Prior Politics

The Origins of the Bans.

No First-Order Impact

A Confusing Compromise in the Uruguay Round

Box 4.1 Ambiguity in the SPS Agreement Article 3 Harmonization

Policy Change After Uruguay: No First-Order Impact

The WTO Complaint and Ruling

Second-Order Compliance? Change in Form, But Not Substance

A New Policy Context

Seeking a Solution

The Policy Reform Process

The Politics of Preserving Policy

Ending the Dispute Without Compliance

Conclusions

5: Bananas: Incremental, But Substantial Policy Change

Trade Regime

First-Order Compliance by Managing Obligations?

The WTO Complaints and Ruling

Second-Order Compliance: Successive Policy Changes Toward Compliance

Act I: Incremental Change

Act II: Enforcement and an Understanding

Act III: Getting the Tariffs Right

6: Genetically Modified Crops: A Tale of Varied Policy Change

The Origins of the GMO Approval Process

Problems in Practice

Reform Without (First-Order) Compliance

Second-Order Compliance? Mixed Policy Response

The Resumption of Approvals of GM Varieties for Food and Feed

The Failure to Resume Approvals for Cultivation

Problematic Member State Bans

7: Sugar: Radical Policy Change with the WTO in Attendance

The Common Market Organization for Sugar and the Side-Effect of Export Subsidies

Little Need for First-Order Compliance?

Compliance as a Part of Wider Reform

Catalysts for Reform

Isolating the Impact of the WTO Ruling

The Politics of Reform

8: Bed Linen: Change Beyond the Call

The Origins of the EU's Anti-Dumping Policy

Extensive, But Incomplete First-Order Compliance

Striving For First-Order Compliance: Decisions

Box 8.1 Key anti-dumping terms.

Zeroing and Trying to Preserve Practices

The Bed Linen Duties

Second-Order Compliance: Vigorous Policy Response

Enabling Policy Change

Action to Respond to India's Complaint

Application Beyond India

9: Conclusion: Supplying Compliance

The EU's Good Compliance Performance

Excellent First-Order Compliance

Second-Order Compliance: Pretty Standard

Explaining Policy Change

Where's the Demand?

Supplying Compliance

Rationalist Reasons for Compliance

Veto Players Matter at the Margins

The EU as an International Actor

Generalizability

The EU as Exception or Exemplar?

Does the Logic of Compliance Hold Beyond the WTO?

Reflecting on Compliance

References

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-266047-0

0-19-193783-5

0-19-266046-2

OCLC:

1272992182