In September 2015, the United Nations member states agreed on a new agenda on sustainable development that sets a range of gender related goals that shall be achieved by the international community in the following years. Among them, the women’s…
Voluntary sustainability standards are part of the new challenges faced by the multilateral trading system. Regulatory barriers to trade, especially technical barriers and sanitary and phytosanitary measures, apply to several sectors such as trade…
The Sixth Biennial conference on "International Economic Law in Unsettling Times" was organized by SIEL and hosted in American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. from July 12 – 14, 2018. The WTO Chair at FLACSO…
Significant reductions in tariff and non-tariff barriers as well as advances in information technology over the last decades have allowed countries to expand their production process beyond national borders, reflecting the increasing relevance of…
1.Motivation: The increasing relevance of time as a trade barrier;
2.The relationship between time and Global Value Chains (capital intensive goods are more sensitive to time);
3.Can the TFA promote a new wave of fragmentation?;
4.How the TFA is…
Trade facilitation has been in WTO agenda since 1996 and only in 2013 WTO Members were able to conclude an agreement to deal with that important issue to guarantee a freer international trade.
From a marginal topic in the Doha Round negotiations,…
Este Brief analiza y muestra que la exportación de servicios es una de las formas más operativa y concreta de aumentar las exportaciones,
especialmente cuando se trata de los servicios profesionales y empresariales. Adicionalmente, revela, mediante…
Las contrataciones públicas y, en particular, la políticas de “compre nacional”, aparecen como una opción muy apetecible dentro del menú de herramientas con que cuentan los gobiernos para apuntalar sus industrias nacionales en tiempos de escasez de…