Guide to the WTO and GATT economics, law and politics

Includes bibliographic references ( p.602-626) and index.

World Trade Organisation : its birth and background -- World Trade Organisation (WTO) : structural dimensions -- WTO dispute settlement mechanisms -- Legal framework of GATT 1994 -- Schedules of Concessions (Article II) -- National treatment on internal taxation and regulation (Art III) -- Agreement on the implementation of Article VI of GATT 1994 (Anti-dumping Agreement) -- Agreement on the implementation of Article VII of GATT 1994 (Customs Valuation Agreement) -- WTO agreement on rules of origin, 1994 -- Publication and administration of trade regulation (Article X) -- General elimination of quantitative and othe restrictions -- Subsidies (Article XVI) -- Agreement on subsidies and controlling measures, 1994 (SCM Code) -- State trade enterprises (Article XVII) -- Governmental assistance to economic development (Article XVIII) -- Emergency action on imports of particular products (Art XIX) -- WTO agreement on safeguards 1994 -- General exceptions (Article XX) -- Consultations (Article XXII) and nullification and impairment of benefits (Article XXIII) -- Territorial application - Frontier traffic - Customs unions and free trade areas (Article XXIV) -- Joint action by the controlling parties (Article XXV) -- Part IV - Trade and development (Articles XXXVI-XXXVIII) -- WTO agreement on agriculture -- WTO agreement on textiles and clothing -- WTO agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) -- WTO agreement on technical barriers to trade (TBT) -- WTO agreement on pre-shipment inspection -- WTO agreement on import-licensing procedures -- WTO agreement on trade related aspects of intellectural property rights (TRIPs Agreement) -- WTO general agreement on trade in services (GATS) -- WTO, trade and investment -- WTO competition policy -- WTO and labour standards -- Trade and environmental issues in the WTO -- Developing countries in the GATT/WTO.