Robert Read - Böcker

The prospective WTO Millennium Round of negotiations will highlight critical economic issues regarding the application and implementation of the WTO rules to international trade in goods and services. In this book, a distinguished group of academic experts considers the agenda and areas of interest for the next Round in light of Seattle, the functions of the WTO and competition policy issues arising from trade liberalization. This is followed by a focus on a wide range of WTO-specific economic issues and debates, including: state trading and state aidsregional integrationagriculture, including the EU-US banana disputeinternational investmentpatentsfinancial services.Trade Liberalization, Competition and the WTO will be of interest to academics and policymakers as well as students of international economics and global trade reform.

This book provides a critical overview and assessment of the WTO's dispute settlement procedures in the context of several recent trade-related disputes between the EU and the US.Case studies provide comprehensive insights into the contemporary regulation of international trade and workings of the WTO. Topics covered include:a critique of the GATT, WTO and NAFTA dispute settlement mechanismsagriculture in the light of Dohathe CAP, beef hormones and GM foodthe banana dispute, the steel dispute and foreign trade corporationsprocess and production method (PPM) issues and cases.The WTO and the Regulation of International Trade will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of international economics and political economy as well as policymakers within the EU and the US.