Export Restrictions on Critical Minerals and Metals

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-107-08596-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 734 g

Reihe: Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law

Conventional wisdom on the insufficiency of existing WTO disciplines on export restrictions has triggered momentum on the issue. In this book, Ilaria Espa offers a comprehensive analysis of the scope and coverage of WTO disciplines on export restrictions in light of emerging case law. She investigates whether such rules still provide a sufficient, credible and effective framework capable of preventing abuses in the use of export restrictive measures on critical minerals and metals during a period of economic crisis and change in international trade patterns. Giving a broad overview of the export restrictions applied to these materials, Espa identifies distinctive features in the proliferation of export barriers and analyses the existing WTO rules to reveal their scope, gaps and inconsistencies. She goes on to present solutions based upon her findings with the aim of bringing more coherence and equity to WTO rules on the export side.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Espa, Ilaria

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sacerdoti, Giorgio

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Giorgio Sacerdoti; Introduction; Part I. Mineral Resources Critical to the World Economy and the Recent Proliferation of Export Restrictions: 1. Evolving world trade patterns in critical mineral resources; 2. The landscape of export restrictions on critical minerals and metals; 3. Economic effects and policy goals of mineral export restraints; Part II. Existing WTO Disciplines on Export Restrictions: 4. WTO disciplines on export duties between general GATT rules and 'WTO-plus' obligations; 5. WTO disciplines on export quantitative restrictions; 6. Available general exceptions for WTO-inconsistent export restrictions; Part III. Regulatory Prospects; 7. Understanding the multifaceted discourse on how to reform WTO disciplines on export restrictions: a brief conceptual framework; 8. Export restrictions in the Doha round negotiations; 9. The way forward.

Über Autor(innen)

Espa, Ilaria
Ilaria Espa is a Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute (WTI), University of Bern, and a member of the Work Package on 'Trade and Climate Change' of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research programme in Trade Regulation. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School, and she has served as a consultant for the Trade and Environment Division of the WTO and for the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.