The ‘new NAFTA’ agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States maintained the previous system for binational panel judicial review. This system provides for ad hoc tribunals composed of three panelists from one country and two from the other…
This is a chapter in the book titled The Legitimacy of International Trade Courts and Tribunals (found here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/legitimacy-of-international-trade-courts-and-tribunals/34E5E4E315147B45E1CFA667F0DC487E).
ASEAN was…
The renegotiation of NAFTA was surrounded by a dramatic atmosphere, just as Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland predicted. The negotiations took place against a backdrop of unilateral trade measures, President Trump’s mercantilist…
This book is a timely and comprehensive analysis of the links between trade and food security, using available data as well as evidence from economic theory and history. It is an edited publication, drawing on expertise from senior staff at the WTO…
WCP Chair holder Michael Ewing-Chow organized a WTO panel "Trade and X: the Future of the WTO" with other WCP Chair holders Bradly Condon, Valentina Delich, Pinar Artiran, chaired by Mark Wu and commented by Henry Gao at the SIEL conference in…
The Centre for World Trade Studies UGM undertook the following research project in collaboration with the Indonesian National Public Procurement Agency (NPPA) in 2018. The first research project analyses the readiness of Indonesian domestic…
The findings stemming from the research is published in the UK House of Commons’ Exiting the EU Committee’s Fourth Report of Session 2017-2019 on “The Future UK-EU Relationship”. Following the evidence that the Chair Holder provided to the House of…
The WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement recently went into force following its ratification by two third of WTO members on 22 February 2017. The world trade report 2015 estimates showed that the full implementation of the TFA could reduce trade costs…
Studying trends and peculiarities of Japanese Economic partnership agreements and FTAs shows that they tend to become more complicated by scope and details. However, their utilization rate remains insufficient: less than 40 [percent. The transfer to…
The article analyses the experience of Latin American countries (LAC) with regards to their participation in various economic dispute settlement mechanisms. Despite the existence of multilateral bodies and rules for dispute resolution, countries…