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The financial services regime, comprising the General Agreement on Trade in Services and bilateral free trade and investment agreements, reflects the ‘orthodoxy’ of highly liberalized and lightly regulated financial markets that has [...]

China’s actions in limiting the export of rare earths have drawn the world’s attention. The USA, Japan, and the European Union (EU) have been frustrated with China’s measures, even threatening to bring the case to the WTO. These rare earth trade [...]

Certificates of Free Sale (CFS) are little known but widely used instruments in international trade. A CFS states that a product meets the regulatory requirements of the exporting country and can be sold freely in that country. Many developing [...]

As the world’s second largest economy and the world’s fastest growing economy, China is a late but significant entrant into the competition law club with the implementation of the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) on 1 August 2008. This article provides a [...]

On 15 July 2010, the Appellate Body of the WTO circulated its report in EC – Fasteners. In its report, the Appellate Body, for the first time, adjudicated the issue of non-market economy (NME) treatment towards imports from China and provided [...]

This article sets forth two arguments. First, to respect a WTO Member’s national regulatory autonomy in the world trading system is essential to ensure the WTO’s long term success in light of the WTO’s institutional constraints, the WTO’s underlying [...]

There are many points of intersection between the law of the World Trade Organization and international human rights law. This article looks at one such, where WTO law requires developing countries to introduce measures that may have [...]

The Australian federal government recently introduced into Parliament legislation mandating the plain packaging of all tobacco products. Tobacco companies and others have raised various legal concerns with this tobacco control scheme, both at a [...]

This article examines the impact of issues such as the global food crisis, export controls on agricultural products, and food security on the agricultural trade negotiations currently underway in connection with the Doha Development Agenda convened [...]