In the book, the regulation of international economic relations is examined on the basis of an interdisciplinary approach, i.e. not only from legal, but also political and economic perspectives. The book explores the basic principles of international economic law, the rules and norms of the World Trade Organization as well as economic and legal context of regional integration on the example of the European Union.
Trade facilitation is one of the key trends in the international trading system development. Respective World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement – Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) is one of really few tangible achievements during Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations. Russian Federation, being a full-fledged member of the organization from 2012, signed and ratified it. Trade facilitation per se could help to improve key indicators of Russian foreign trade and hence contribute national economy performance in general.
A descriptive analysis of foreign trade statistics of developing countries shows that among the customs unions (CU) member states, the majority are primarily exporters of commodities (their share in exports is above 50%), while countries whose exports are dominated by processed products prefer to conclude free trade agreements. It is well known that raw materials and fuel dominate in the export of most countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).
The author compares two types of regional trade agreements (RTA) in Latin America. First (historically) - based on Balassa scheme and leading to the customs unions, and second, going in line with open regionalism. He tests the correlation of the participation of countries to the first (more closed) or second types of RTA with the product structure of their export, and finds, that exporters of commodities tend to prefer customs unions.
Bradly Condon delivered updated courses on WTO law and on Regional Trade Agreements in the undergraduate program of ITAM's law department, and developed new case simulations on WTO law for the course on Oral and Written Legal Argumentation.
The CGTI/FGV organizes, at the end of each academic year, a national conference on International Trade to the Brazilian audience, especially policymakers, government staff, practitioners and academics. The main topic was to debate the participation of Brazil in 20 years of the WTO. Besides that, it was also discussed the new Brazilian government and an opportunity to review Brazil Trade Policy, which made the presence of policymakers and government staff even more relevant. The proceedings of the conference can be checked out in the attached file on this webpage.
The Center on Global Trade and Investment at the FGV School of Economics presented the International Conference on THE ROLE OF THE WTO IN THE 21ST CENTURY. On this occasion, the WTO Chair Programme in Brazil was launched. The Conference brought together practitioners, policymakers and academics engaged in trade discussions. The Conference was held in São Paulo, Friday December 5th, 2014, at School of Economics of Getulio Vargas Foundation, Auditório Itau-FGV.