The Regulation of International Trade: 4th Edition

Michael Trebilcock, Robert Howse, Antonia Eliason

Routledge, May 7, 2013 - Business & Economics - 912 pages

Drawing on a wide variety of classic and contemporary sources, respected authors Trebilcock and Howse here provide a critical analysis of the institutions and agreements that have shaped international trade rules. In light of the growing debate over globalization, they include special sections examinations of topics such as:

* agriculture
* services and trade-related intellectual property rights
* labor rights
* the environment
* migration.
*competition

Drawing on previous highly praised editions, this comprehensive text is an invaluable guide to students of economics, law, politics and international relations. Now fully updated, this fourth edition includes full coverage of new developments including the Doha trade round, the proliferation of preferential trade agreements, the debate on trade, climate change and green energy, the response of the trading system to the 2007-2010 financial and economic crisis, the controversy over trade and exchange rate manipulation, and the growing body of WTO dispute resolution case law.

Contents

• 1 The evolution of international trade theory policy and institutions: 1
• 2 The Most Favoured Nation principle: 54
• 3 Preferential Trade Agreements: 83
• 4 National Treatment: 136
• 5 Dispute settlement: 172
• 6 Trade money and finance: 227
• Tariffs and quantitative restrictions: 258
• 8 Trade policy and domestic health and safety regulation and standards: 288
• 9 Antidumping laws: 333
• 10 Subsidies countervailing duties and government procurement: 364
• 11 Safeguard regimes and domestic adjustment policies: 411
• 12 Trade in agriculture: 434
• 13 Trade in services: 472
• 14 TradeRelated Intellectual Property TRIPs: 514
• 15 Trade and investment: 566
• 16 Trade and developing countries: 605
• 17 Trade and the environment: 656
• 18 Trade labour standards and human rights: 716
• 19 Trade and competition policy: 756
• 20 The international movement of people: 781
• After Doha?: 802
• Notes: 809
• Index: 936
• Index of cases: 947

About the author

Michael J. Trebilcock is University Professor and Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, Canada. In addition to the three previous editions of The Regulation of International Trade, he is the author of The Limits of Freedom of Contract and The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy.

Robert L. Howse is Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at New York University, USA.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Regulation of International Trade: 4th Edition
• Authors: Michael Trebilcock, Robert Howse, Antonia Eliason
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Routledge, 2013
• ISBN: 1136291768, 9781136291760
• Length: 912 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Economics / General; Business & Economics / General; Business & Economics / International / Economics & Trade