New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 55, no. 2, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Warren H. Maruyama, Can the Appellate Body Be Saved?
• Paola Conconi, Cristina Herghelegiu, & Laura Puccio, EU Trade Agreements: To Mix or Not to Mix, That Is the Question
• Evan Gabor & Karl P. Sauvat, Facilitating Sustainable FDI for Sustainable Development in a WTO Investment Facilitation Framework: Four Concrete Proposals
• Julien Chaisse & Jamieson Kirkwood, One Stone, Two Birds: Can China Leverage WTO Accession to Build the BRI?
• Heng Wang, Selective Engagement? Future Path for US– China Economic Relations and Its Implications

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 55, no. 1, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Bernard M. Hoekman, Petros C. Mavroidis, & Maarja Saluste, Informing WTO Reform: Dispute Settlement Performance, 1995-2020
• Thomas Cottier & Anirudh Shingal, Migration, Trade and Investment: Towards a New Common Concern of Humankind
• Mira Burri, Towards a New Treaty on Digital Trade
• Okanga Ogbu Okanga, Testing for Consistency: Certain Digital Tax Measures and WTO Non-Discrimination
• Sangeeta Khorana & William A. Kerr, Electronic Government Procurement in the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement: An Opportunity for Increased Transparency and Accountability?
• Nadja Al Kanawati & Nishadee Perera, Can the WEF Re-Connect the WTO to the Global Business Community?
• Luyao Che, The Chinese Conception of the Rule of Law and Its Embodiment Under the ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative (BRI)

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 54, no. 6, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Wolfgang Weiß, Adjudicating Security Exceptions in WTO Law: Methodical and Procedural Preliminaries
• Siqi Li & Xinquan Tu, Reforming WTO Subsidy Rules: Past Experiences and Prospects
• Gabriel Gari, China’s Preferential Treatment on Trade in Services: Is the Sleeping Dragon About to Wake Up?
• Alessandra Moroni, Bregt Natens, & Arnoud Willems, Hurdles to Litigating Trade Defence Measures Before the EU Courts
• Ronald Eberhard Tundang, US–China Trade War An Impetus for New Norms on Technology Transfer
• Dukgeun Ahn & Hyerim Kim, Judicial Conflicts between Panels and the Appellate Body in the WTO Safeguard Jurisprudence
• Weizhan Meng & Xinkai Zeng, How Should China Respond to Trump’s New Round of Trade War? An Unprecedented Debate Among Chinese IR Scholars

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 54, no. 5, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Petros C. Mavroidis, Matteo Fiorini, Bernard M. Hoekman, Maarja Saluste, & Robert Wolfe, WTO Dispute Settlement and the Appellate Body: Insider Perceptions and Members’ Revealed Preferences
• Shin-yi Peng, A New Trade Regime for the Servitization of Manufacturing: Rethinking the Goods-Services Dichotomy
• Joost Pauwelyn, Export Restrictions in Times of Pandemic: Options and Limits Under International Trade Agreements
• ) Marc Bungenberg & Pieter Van Vaerenbergh, Countervailing Measures and China’s Accession Protocol to the WTO
• Zaker Ahmad, A Trade Policy Agenda for the Diffusion of Low-Carbon Technologies
• Zhiqiong June Wang & Jianfu Chen, BRI 2.0: Cosmetic Repairs or a Change of Course?
• Nayung Kim, Trade Remedy Rules for Digital Services: Inapplicability of GATT-type Safeguard Rules

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 54, no. 4, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Pierre Sauvé, Gendered Perspectives on Services Trade and Investment
• Ram Singh & Surendar Singh, Domestic Sources of India’s Trade Policy Preferences in RCEP Negotiations
• Jacob Wood & Jie Wu, The Sustainability of the WTO Dispute Settlement System: Does It Work for Developing Countries?
• Neha Mishra, The Trade: (Cyber)Security Dilemma and Its Impact on Global Cybersecurity Governance
• James M. Claxton, Litigating, Arbitrating and Mediating Japan–Korea Trade and Investment Tensions
• Kalpana Tyagi, China’s Pursuit of Industrial Policy Objectives: Does the WTO (Really) Have an Answer?
• Prabhash Ranjan, National Security Exception in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and India–Pakistan Trade

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 54, no. 3, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Jaime de Melo & Jean-Marc Solleder, The EGA Negotiations: Why They Are Important, Why They Are Stalled, and Challenges Ahead
• Nany Hur, Dongchul Kwak, & Jeongjoon Park, Online Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy: Emergence of New Service Suppliers?
• Kamala Dawar, Official Export Credit Support: Competition and Compliance Issues
• Hao Wu, A Harmonized Interpretation of Freedom of Transit in the Fragmented International Legal System: Applying Article 31(3)(c) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties to the Russia – Traffic in Transit Dispute
• Angshuman Hazarika & Pieter Van Vaerenbergh, Climate Change as a Security Risk: Too Hot to Handle?
• Sang Man Kim, Export Credit Guarantee and Prohibited Subsidies Under the SCM Agreement
• Weihuan Zhou, Qingjiang Kong, & Huiqin Jiang, Technology Transfer Under China’s Foreign Investment Regime: Does the WTO Provide a Solution?

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 54, no. 2, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• James Bacchus & Simon Lester, The Rule of Precedent and the Role of the Appellate Body
• Simon B.C. Lacey, Reality Check: The lack of consensus on new trade rules to govern the digital economy
• Joachim Åhman, Exploring Border Areas Between the Law of State Responsibility and WTO Law
• Pratyush Nath Upreti, Trade Mark Restrictions under the TRIPS Agreement: The WTO Panel Findings on Australia’s Tobacco Plain Packaging Legislation
• Uros Zdravkovic, Ex officio Claimant: A Challenging Proposal for Reforming the WTO
• Luis Carlos Ramírez Martínez, WTO Legal Reform: The Need for Revisiting the Treatment Accorded to China as a Non-Market Economy in Trade Remedies
• Sebastian Beckerle, Executive Powers within the International Trading System – A Comparative Analysis of EU, Swiss, U.S. and Canadian Frameworks

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 54, no. 1, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Thomas Lebzelter & Axel Marx, Is EU GSP+ Fostering Good Governance? Results from a New GSP+ Compliance Index
• Enrico Partiti, Regulating Trade in Forest-Risk Commodities
• Saurabh Tiwari, Ashish Chandra, Tanvi Praveen, & Stuti Toshi, ‘E-commerce’ for India in a Developing World: An Int’l Trade Law Perspective
• James J. Nedumpara & Sparsha Janardhan, Developing Countries and Domestic Support Measures in Agriculture: Walking a Tightrope
• Mandy Meng Fang, A Crisis or an Opportunity? The Trade War Between the US and China in the Solar PV Sector
• Injoo Sohn, Asymmetrical Fairness: China’s Use of Antidumping Measures
• Wei Yin, Regulating the State Capitalism: Is There an Optimal Regulatory Model for Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment?

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 53, no. 6, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• C. Y. Cyrus Chu & Po-Ching Lee, Three Changes Not Foreseen by WTO Rules Framers Twenty-Five Years Ago
• Martin Roy, Elevating Services: Services Trade Policy, WTO Commitments, and Their Role in Economic Development and Trade Integration
• Weihuan Zhou & Henry Gao, ‘Overreaching’ or ‘Overreacting’? Reflections on the Judicial Function and Approaches of WTO Appellate Body
• Ilaria Espa, New Features of Green Industrial Policy and the Limits of WTO Rules: What Options for the Twenty-first Century?
• Haneul Jung & Nu Ri Jung, Enforcing ‘Purely’ Environmental Obligations Through International Trade Law: A Case of the CPTPP’s Fisheries Subsidies
• Atul Kaushik, India’s Dilemma in Negotiating Rules on E-commerce in the WTO
• Rhys Manley, Trade Law and the Capability Approach

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 53, no. 5, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Julien Gourdon & James Messent, How Government Procurement Measures Can Affect Trade
• Juan He, Unilateral Trade Measures Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing: Unlocking a Paradigm Change in Trade-Environmental Partnerships?
• Marc D. Froese, Digital Trade and Dispute Settlement in RTAs: An Evolving Standard?
• Yong-Shik Lee, The Steel and Aluminium Quota Agreements: A Question of Compatibility with WTO Disciplines and Their Impact on the World Trading System
• Robert Black, Reforming Biosecurity Legislation in Developing Countries: Increasing Market Access or Maintaining Unequal Terms of Trade?
• Jan A. Micallef, Digital Trade in EU FTAs: Are EU FTAs Allowing Cross Border Digital Trade to Reach Its Full Potential?
• Collins C Ajibo, African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: The Euphoria, Pitfalls and Prospects

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 53, no. 4, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Diwakar Dixit & Thakur Parajuli, The Preferential Trade Conundrum and the Multilateral Market Access Negotiations in Agriculture
• Nathalie Devillier & Ted Gleason, Consistent and Recurring Use of External Legal! Norms: Examining Normative Integration of the FCTC post-Australia – Tobacco Plain Packaging
• Gabriele Gagliani, Recent Evolution in International Trade in the Transatlantic Area: Unexpected Consequences or Nothing New Under the Sun?
• Ji Yeong Yoo, Restructuring GATT Balance-of-Payments Safeguard in the WTO System
• Jingjing Zhao, Towards State Avoidance of Conflicts between the SPS Agreement and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: A Fresh Perspective
• Natalia Kapyrina, Design Rights in EU PTAs: Where Does Such Internationalization Lead?

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 53, no. 3, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Julio J. Nogués, Brexit Trade Impacts’ and Mercosur’s Negotiations with Europe
• Bernard Hoekman, Urgent and Important: Improving WTO Performance by Revisiting Working Practices
• Andrei Suse & Jan Wouters, Exploring the Boundaries of Provisional Application: The EU’s Mixed Trade and Investment Agreements
• Kiliane Huyghebaert, Changing the Rules Mid-Game: The Compliance of the Amended EU Basic Anti-Dumping Regulation with WTO Law
• Salam Alshareef, Technical Standards Liberalization in FTAs of the United States, the European Union and China
• Christina Siyu Tao & Sandeep Gopalan, Piercing the Veil of Foreign Legal Services in China
• Michal Ovádek & Akhil Raina, The Evolution of EU Trade Law Through the Prism of Competence: A Quantitative, Longitudinal Perspective

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 53, no. 2, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Geraldo Vidigal, The Return of Voluntary Export Restraints? How WTO Law Regulates (And Doesn’t Regulate) Bilateral Trade-Restrictive Agreements
• Yury Rovnov, The Life and Death of a Non-Recurring Subsidy: the Role of Change in Ownership of Subsidy Recipient
• Manuel Sánchez Miranda, When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going: Advancing Development Through Governance Indicators at the WTO
• Bashar H. Malkawi & Mohammad I. El-Shafie, The Design and Operation of Rules of Origin in Greater Arab Free Trade Area: Challenges of Implementation and Reform
• Qingjiang Kong & Shuai Guo, Towards a Mega-Plurilateral Dispute Settlement Mechanism for the WTO?
• Amrita Bahri, ‘Appellate Body Held Hostage’: Is Judicial Activism at Fair Trial?
• Heng Wang, The Future of Deep Free Trade Agreements: The Convergence of TPP (and CPTPP) and CETA?

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 53, no. 1, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Zhang Xiangchen, Xu Qingjun, & Wang Jinyong, Capacity Constraint: A Fundamental Perspective for the Development Issue at WTO
• Shujie Feng & Xiao Ma, To Increase Damages of Intellectual Property Infringement in China: A Double-Edged Sword for the Market
• Ines Willemyns, GATS Classification of Digital Services – Does ‘The Cloud’ Have a Silver Lining?
• Rex J. Zedalis, A Commentary on US ‘National Security’ Import Restraints: The Situation with Crude Oil
• Margherita Melillo, Informal Dispute Resolution in Preferential Trade Agreements
• Luciana Dutra De Oliveira Silveira, Can the WTO Bring More Teeth to the Global Anticorruption Agenda?
• Nataliia Kozachuk, Counteracting SEP Abuse: In Search of a WTO-Consistent Approach
• R.S. Neeraj, A Defining Act: How TPP Rules Are Undermining WTO Jurisprudence

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 52, no. 6, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Julio J. Nogués, In Remembrance of J. Michael Finger
• Robert McDougall, The Crisis in WTO Dispute Settlement: Fixing Birth Defects to Restore Balance
• Jae Woon Lee, Airline Subsidies: Can the Law Play a Role in Regulating Them?
• Reem Anwar Ahmed Raslan, Green Subsidies and WTO Trade Rules: A ‘Conflict of Values’ or A ‘Conflict of Norms’?
• Catherine Li, The EU’s Proposal Regarding the Establishment of the Investment Court System and the Response from Asia
• Tekuni Nakuja & William A. Kerr, 'Do WTO Commitments Restrict the Policy Space of Countries Wishing to Provide Food Security Through Stockholding Programs?
• Gillian Moon, A ‘FundamentalMoral Imperative’: Social Inclusion, the Sustainable Development Goals and International Trade Law After Brazil-Taxation
• Kateřina Hradilová & Ondřej Svoboda, Sustainable Development Chapters in the EU Free Trade Agreements: Searching for Effectiveness

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 52, no. 5, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Ming Du, Re-Conceptualizing the Role of Science in International Trade Disputes
• Rudolf Adlung, Brexit from a WTO/GATS Perspective: Towards an Easy Divorce?
• Jimmyn Parc & Patrick Messerlin, In Search of an Effective Trade Policy for the Film Industry: Lessons from Korea
• Minjung Kim, The ‘Standard’ in the GATT/WTO TBT Agreements: Origin, Evolution and Application
• Simplice A. Asongu, Jacinta C. Nwachukwu, & Gilbert A. A. Aminkeng, Lessons from a Survey of China’s Economic Diplomacy
• Jiaxiang Hu & Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Dispute Resolution Mechanisms and Organizations in the Implementation of ‘One Belt, One Road’ Initiative: Whence and Whither
• Julien Briguet, The State’s Invisible Hand: Chinese SOEs Facing EU Antitrust Law

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 52, no. 4, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Bradly J. Condon, Captain America and the Tarnishing of the Crown: The Feud Between the WTO Appellate Body and the USA
• Linda J. Allen, Reassessing the ‘Green’ in NAFTA/li>
• Mark S. Langevin, Foot Dragging or Strategic Withdrawal? The Cotton Dispute and Executive Compliance
• Martín Molinuevo, Brexit: Trade Governance and Legal Implications for Third Countries/li>
• Guy Harpaz, The Front Polisario Verdict and the Gap Between the EU’s Trade Treatment of Western Sahara and Its Treatment of the Occupied Palestinian Territories/li>
• Bashar H. Malkawi & Joel Slawotsky, The League of Arab States Trade Boycott of Israel a Passé: Time for Renewed Debate/li>
• Elena Cima, Promoting Renewable Energy Through FTAs? The Legal Implications of a New Generation of Trade Agreements

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 52, no. 3, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Vincent Beyer, Direct Taxes and the GATS: Substantive and Procedural Defences for Non-compliant Income Tax Measures
• Jong Bum Kim, Adaptation of Internal Trade Requirements in RTAs: Substandard Internal Trade Liberalization
• Eva van der Zee, Disciplining Private Standards Under the SPS and TBT Agreement: A Plea for Market-State Procedural Guidelines
• Dukgeun Ahn, Koohyun Kwon, Jihong Lee, & Jee-Hyeong Park, An Empirical Analysis on the WTO Safeguard Actions
• Ida Madieha Abdul Ghani Azmi , Heng Gee Lim, Pek San Tay, & Cheng Peng Sik, Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Minus One and Enhanced Criminal Penalty for Online Copyright Piracy: Malaysia’s Options
• Fenghua Li, The Driving Forces of the Convergence of WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism and International Investment Arbitration
• Weihuan Zhou & Delei Peng, EU – Price Comparison Methodologies (DS516): Challenging the Non-Market Economy Methodology in Light of the Negotiating History of Article 15 of China’s WTO Accession Protocol

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 52, no. 2, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Chan-Mo Chung, Data Localization: The Causes, Evolving International Regimes and Korean Practices
• Pierre Sauvé & Marta Soprana, Mission Impossible? The Political Economy of Disciplines on Investment Incentives
• Mark Robbins, Internet, Industry and International Trade: Digital Tradability in Services
• Wenwei Guan, Copyright Anti-Circumvention & Free Trade
• Thitirat Wongkaew, Treatment of SPS Technical Co-Operation under ASEAN’s RTAs: Toward an Empowerment of Human Dignity?
• Chenxi Wang, WTO Rare Earths Case’s Influence on China’s Domestic Regulatory Changes
• Veer Mayank, Do the Panels’ Treat Different Countries Differently: A Comparison of the ‘Panel Report in the India – Measures Concerning the Importation of Certain Agricultural Products from the United States’ and ‘Panel Report in United States – Certain Measures Affecting Imports of Poultry from China’

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 52, no. 1, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Petros C. Mavroidis & Edwin Vermulst, The Case for Dropping Preferential Rules of Origin
• Michael E. S. Hoffman, Principles for Post-War International Economic Cooperation
• Thomas Voland & Shona Daly, The EU Regulation on Conflict Minerals: The Way Out of a Vicious Cycle?
• Alessandro Antimiani & Lucian Cernat, Liberalizing Global Trade in Mode 5 Services: How Much Is It Worth?
• Rudolf Adlung & Hamid Mamdouh, Plurilateral Trade Agreements: An Escape Route for the WTO?
• Erin Hannah, Amy Janzwood, James Scott, & Rorden Wilkinson, What Kind of Civil Society? The Changing Complexion of Public Engagement at the WTO
• Onsando Osiemo, Saving Africa: The GMO Cold War and the Battle for Africa
• Julien Chaisse & Mitsuo Matsushita, China’s ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative: Mapping the World Trade Normative and Strategic Implications