Challenges to the New World Trade Organization

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-90-411-0236-2
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 372 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 735 g

Reihe: Legal Aspects of International Organizations

The World Trade Organization will become the overall and comprehensive multilateral framework for regulating international trade and trade-related matters. Notwithstanding major achievements made during eight years of negotiations, there will be new challenges requiring rules and regulations in areas not yet adequately covered.

Economists, lawyers and authors from trade unions and private companies approach the issues of regionalism, labour standards and environmental protection from different angles and from the North-South perspective. The first challenge is to bring about a `level playing field'.

This book tackles key questions such as:

the types of standards that are required

the roles of institutions and the enforcement mechanisms with regard to

trade related investment measures

intellectual property rights

labour and environmental conditions.

The second challenge is the new wave of regional preferential trade systems: this book deals with the WTO compatibility of these far-reaching integration schemes and the lessons for global liberalisation that might be learned from these regional experiments.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faber, Gerrit

van Dijck, Pitou

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht