Accession to the world trade organization : a legal analysis / Dylan Geraets.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geraets, Dylan, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar international economic law.

Elgar International Economic Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Trade Organization.

International and municipal law.

Accession (Law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2018.

Summary:

"This detailed and perceptive book examines the extent and scope of how rules for accession to the WTO may vary between countries, approaching the concerns that some countries enter with a better deal than others. Dylan Geraets critiques these additional 'rules' and aims to answer the question of whether new Members of the WTO are under stricter rules than the original Members, whilst analysing the accession process to the multilateral trading system."

Contents:

Part I: Accession to the multilateral trading system

1. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1947 (GATT 1947) and the World Trade Organization (WTO)

Why join the club?

2. Membership of the GATT 1947 and the WTO

3. The scope of the multilateral trading system

Part II: The status of protocols of accession in the legal framework of the WTO

4. The status of protocols of accession in the legal framework of the WTO

Part III: Mapping exercise: The content of protocols of accession

5. Mapping exercise: Methodology and typology

commitments on specific matters

6. Mapping exercise: The results

Part IV: Conclusion

7. Concluding remarks

Selected bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781788112598

1-78811-259-8