Free Markets and Social Regulation: A Reform Agenda of the Global Trading System - A Reform Agenda of the Global Trading System (Hardcover)

Discussion of trade barriers has come round - inevitably it seems - to national regimes of regulatory protection. Indeed, state regulation has the potential to undermine the very legitimacy of the global trading system. A compelling reconciliation between these two paramount values is essential. This text has a twofold purpose: to consider what has so far been accomplished in this mission in the field of international economic law, and to prescribe some solutions to continuing problems. This latter endeavour amounts to a coherent and integrated plan that will enhance the acceptability of free markets to governments, traders, and other stakeholders alike. The challenges analysed in depth here include: the development in the global trade regime of non-trade policy objectives, which still tend to be treated as mere exceptions to general obligations; the built-in emphasis on products rather than measures; the novel risks associated with the development of modern technology; the case-by-case approach of WTO jurisprudence, which generally fails to investigate whether the substance of any given domestic regulation is necessary to the policy goals of the state in question; and the "technical and economic feasibility" of complying with international trade obligations. The author conducts his analysis in a broad context encompassing the WTO system, the European Union, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. He finds that the clash, despite the particular institutional characteristics of these various organizations, is a major concern of them all. The jus gentium of international trade, he offers, is an imperative combining the good faith principle with the communitarian duty to cooperate. Exactly how to go about ordering this imperative is what this book is about.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Law International
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	2003
First published:	May 2003
Authors:	Sungjoon Cho
Dimensions:	230 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-90-411-9892-1
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic systems > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > International trade > Trade agreements & tariffs
LSN:	90-411-9892-X
Barcode:	9789041198921

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