Law and Practice of the World Trade Organization

Designed for use by the practitioner as well as the academic researcher, this set provides an extensive examination of the new rules of international trade, as negotiated by representatives of more than 120 nations.

Outlines:

What the WTO's far-reaching affects are on practitioners?
Why the WTO is different from it's predecessor the GATT?
The international trading rules established by the Uruguay Round and GATT.
How these rules differ from those established in the prior Dillon, Kennedy, and Tokyo Rounds, as well as the original GATT of 1947?

A volume dedicated to informative Commentary from leading authorities in the field focuses on such critical topics as: financial services, anti-dumping, subsidies and countervailing measures, dispute settlement mechanism, trade-related investment measures, trade in services, technical barriers to trade, intellectual property protection.

Additionally, the set includes the full text decisions of the Dispute Settlement panels, as they evolve, and provide understanding about:
The significance of Dispute Settlement Understanding
The binding nature of panel decisions
The procedures for the sanctioning of non-conforming trading partners