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Book SynopsisThe World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take for granted, the authors uncover the deep historical roots of economic globalization. Covering over seven hundred years of history, this book, now in its fourth edition, takes the reader around the world from the history of the opium trade to pirates, to the building of corporations and migration to the New World. The chapters are grouped thematically, each featuring an introductory essay designed to synthesize and elaborate on key themes, both familiar and unfamiliar. It includes ten new essays, on topics ranging from the early modern ivory and slave trades across the Indian Ocean, to the ways in which the availability of new consumer goods helped change work habits in both Europe and East Asia, and from the history of chewing gum to that of rare earth metals. The introduTrade Review‘In this collection of short essays, Pomeranz and Topik masterfully depict the story of the creation of the world economy. Without using academic jargon, they explain how trade with commodities, drugs, animals, people and ideas moved among continents and transformed the world.’ — Manel Ollé, associate tenure professor in Modern and contemporary Chinese history and culture, Director of the Master in Chinese Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain ‘How invisible networks of trade ultimately came to compel producers, merchants, and even whole societies to adapt to the networks' needs as they grew is a fascinating story, and one just as important for understanding the world as developments in politics or culture are. I know of no other book that introduces trade networks so well. It is an ideal text for survey courses.’ — Roland Spickermann - Chair, Dept. of History, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USATable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 The Making of Market Conventions The Fujian Trade Diaspora The Chinese Tribute System Funny Money, Real Growth When Asia Was the World Economy Treating Good News as No News Pearls in the Rubble: Rediscovering the Golden Age of Quanzhou, ca. 1000–1400 Aztec Traders Primitive Accumulation: Brazilwood A British Merchant in the Tropics How the Other Half Traded Deals and Ordeals: World Trade and Early Modern Legal Culture Traveling Salesmen, Traveling Taxmen Indian Ocean Commodity Circuit: How to Turn Cotton into Ivory Going Non-native: Expense Accounts and the End of the Age of Merchant Courtiers Empire on a Shoestring: British Adventurers and Indian Financiers in Calcutta, 1750–1850 Chapter 2 Transport and Tactics2.1 Human Ingenuity: Adapting to Natural Barriers, and Creating New Ones2.2 Power-Driven Transport: New Time, New Space, Old Conflicts2.3 Woods, Winds, Shipbuilding, and Shipping: Why China Didn’t Rule the Waves2.4 Better to Be Lucky Than Smart2.5 Seats of Government and Their Stomachs: An Eighteenth-Century Tour2.6 Pioneers of Dusty Rooms: Warehouses, Transatlantic Trade, and the Opening of the North American Frontier2.7 People Patterns: Was the Real America Sichuan?2.8 Winning Raffles2.9 Trade, Disorder, and Progress: Creating Shanghai, 1840–19302.10 Out of One—Many2.11 Guaranteed Profits and Half-Fulfilled Hopes: Railroad Building in British India2.12 A Brief Trip Across the CenturiesChapter 3 The Economic Culture of Drugs3.1 Chocolate: From Coin to Commodity3.2 Brewing Up a Storm3.3 Mocha Is Not Chocolate3.4 The Brew of Business: Coffee’s Life Story3.5 America and the Coffee Bean3.6 Sweet Revolutions3.7 Paying for Power: "Sin Taxes" and the Rise of the Modern State3.8 How Opium Made the World Go ‘Round3.9 Tobacco: the Rise and Decline of a Magical Weed3.10 Making Smoking Modern: From Pipes to Cigarettes in Egypt and Elsewhere3.11 Chewing Is Good, Snorting Isn’t: How Chemistry Turned a Good Thing BadChapter 4 Transplanting4.1 Unnatural Resources4.2 Bouncing Around4.3 Golden Misfortune: John Sutter in the Wilds of California4.4 California Gold and the World4.5 El Dorado or Wild Coast? How a Remote Place was washed by the Tides of World History4.6 Beautiful Bugs4.7 How to Turn Nothing into Something: Guano’s Ephemeral Fortunes4.8 As American as Sugar and Pineapples4.9 How the Cows Ate the Cowboys4.10 The Tie That Bound4.11 The Good Earth?4.12 One Potato, Two Potato4.13 Cocoa and Coercion: Advances and Retreats for Free Labor in West African Agriculture4.14 Trying to Get a Grip: Natural Rubber’s Century of Ups and DownsChapter 5 The Economics of Violence5.1 The Logic of an Immoral Trade5.2 As Rich as Potosí5.3 The Freebooting Founders of England's Free Seas5.4 Adventure, Trade, Piracy: Anthony Shirley and Pedro Teixeira, Two Early Modern Travelers5.5 The Luxurious Life of Robinson Crusoe5.6 No Islands in the Storm: Or, How the Sino-British Tea Trade Deluged the Worlds of Pacific Islanders5.7 The Violent Birth of Corporations5.8 Buccaneers as Corporate Raiders5.9 Looking for the Next Worst Thing: Emancipation, Indentures, and Colonial Plantations After Slavery5.10 Bloody Ivory Tower5.11 How Africa Resisted Imperialism: Ethiopia and the World Economy5.12 Never Again: The Saga of the RosenfeldersChapter 6 Making Modern Markets6.1 Silver and Gold in Mexico and Brazil6.2 Weighing the World: The Metric Revolution6.3 From Court Bankers to Architects of the Modern World Market: The Rothschilds6.4 Growing Global: International Grain Markets6.5 How Time Got That Way6.6 How the United States Joined the Big Leagues6.7 Clubs, Casinos, and Collapses: Sovereign Debt and Risk Management Since 18206.8 Fresher Is Not Better6.9 Packaging6.10 Trademarks: What’s in a Name?6.11 Learning to Feel Unclean: A Global Marketing Tale6.12 Chewing on global History: Wrigley, Adams, and the Yucatan6.13 Things Go Better with Red, White, and Blue: How Coca-Cola Conquered Europe6.14 Survival of the First6.15 It Ain’t Necessarily So6.16 Location, Location, Location: How History Trumped Geography in Andorra and PanamaChapter 7 World Trade, Industrialization, and Deindustrialization7.1 Sweet Industry: The First Factories7.2 Why We Work So Hard: The Industrious Revolution and the Early Modern World7.3 Fiber of Fortune: How Cotton Became the Fabric of the Industrial Age7.4 Combing the World for Cotton7.5 Killing the Golden Goose7.6 Sweet Success7.7 No Mill Is an Island7.8 Feeding Silkworms, Spitting Out Growth7.9 From Rocks—and Restrictions—to Riches: How Disadvantages Helped New England Industrialize Early7.10 Sideways Breakthroughs and Stalled Transitions: Crooked Paths from Coal to Oil, 1859–20127.11 American Oil7.12 Running on Oil, Building on Sand7.13 Not So Rare, But Pretty Strange: How Rare Earth Metals Became a Chinese "Monopoly"7.14 Minding the Store and Forgetting the Factory: U.S. "Fair Trade" Laws and the Rise of Offshore Manufacturing Since World War IIEpilogue: The World Economy in the Twenty-First Century

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Book SynopsisAfter the 2008–9 global financial crisis, reforms to promote stability, social inclusion, and sustainability were promised but not delivered. As a result, the global economic situation, marred by inequality, volatility, and climate breakdown, remains dysfunctional. Now, the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic offers us a second chance. Kevin Gallagher and Richard Kozul-Wright argue that we must grasp it by implementing sweeping reforms to how we govern global money, finance, and trade. Without global leaders prepared to boldly rewrite the rules to promote a prosperous, just, and sustainable post-Covid world economic order – a Bretton Woods moment for the twenty-first century – we risk being engulfed by climate chaos and political dysfunction. This book provides a blueprint for change that no one interested in the future of our planet can afford to miss.Trade Review“The world economy desperately needs a new deal. Few, if any, analysts are better placed to describe the transformation required than Kevin Gallagher and Richard Kozul-Wright.”Dani Rodrik, Harvard University “If the Bad Samaritans of global governance really want to turn a page and build back better from the Covid-19 crisis they could find no better place to start than by dipping in to this punchy volume.”Ha-Joon Chang, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsChapter 1: The Fierce Urgency of Now: The Case for a New Bretton Woods Moment Chapter 2: The Origins and Antinomies of the Multilateral System Chapter 3: Building Back a Better International Monetary and Financial System Chapter 4: Re-aligning the Trade and Investment Regime Chapter 5: Catalyzing Development Finance Chapter 6: Crises, Reform and Countervailing Power Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAsia and Oceania are close geographically, have complementary trade and investment opportunities, and have developed strong business relationships during recent decades. The rapid growth of Asia has provided huge two-way opportunities in trade and investment for businesses in these areas. In the coming decades, continued strong growth in East Asia is likely to be accompanied by even stronger growth in South Asia. Businesses in Oceania are generally better placed than those of Western Europe and North America to take early advantage of the burgeoning opportunities in Asia. Emerging Business and Trade Opportunities Between Oceania and Asia is a comprehensive reference that comprises research on the latest business ventures and developments that are being forged between countries that include Australia, China, and India. This book provides insight into general knowledge about the trade and investment policies and patterns of the two areas and specific knowledge about more targeted trade and investment opportunities. Covering a plethora of topics such as economic development, knowledge management, and start-ups across a wide range of industries that include tourism and hospitality, elderly care services, and information technology sectors, it is ideal for existing and new business entrepreneurs in Oceania and Asia; economic and political commentators; and researchers, academics, and students working in the fields of economics and business-oriented disciplines. Additionally, business professionals and financial investors can use the book to gain a deeper understanding of investment opportunities in areas such as health and tourism, and business consultants can utilize it to develop road maps for their clients of future business opportunities in what will continue to be the largest and most rapidly growing part of the world economy.

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Book SynopsisWhat is the role of trade to both expedite growth and to provide the transformative innovations needed in our post-Pandemic, post-Brexit, unstable world? Using historical examples to demonstrate how complex forces interplay into virtuous or vicious cycles of cumulative causation, Simmons and Culkin suggest alternative trade approaches to drive economic growth. Set within the socio-political space defined by a nascent Anglosphere and its implicit nationalism, they map alternative frameworks to embolden entrepreneurs to make the future. With fresh thinking Covid, Brexit and The Anglosphere equips academics, students, policymakers and general readers with the tools to drive growth in a post-Pandemic post- Brexit fragmenting world order facing rapidly advancing technical change.Trade ReviewAs a serial entrepreneur this book grasps the complex challenges I face on a daily basis. The two main concepts discussed give valuable insights into the dynamics of launching innovations that drive growth. The Quadruple Innovation Vortex neatly demonstrates the interlocking roles of the state, universities and financial capital working in partnership with entrepreneurs like myself to overcome obstacles and reach the market. The complexity and interrelation of Cumulative Causation reflects the real world the entrepreneur works in where numerous different aspects need to work together to generate the virtuous cycle of success. Simmons and Culkin’s book is a “must read” for those who want to explore how innovation and growth require so much more than just Open Trade. -- Jukka Peltola, Serial entrepreneur in global media, consumer product and complementary medicine markets.This forward-thinking book is innovative and exciting, Simmons and Culkin’s dare to imagine and envisage innovation by addressing the unanswered questions that we have all been asking. The book is an essential read for academics, researchers, policy makers and business leaders alike because it presents groundbreaking ideas on innovation and how we can drive economic growth in practical ways that are hard to ignore. -- Professor Kiran Trehan, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Partnerships and EngagementWith the United Kingdom’s Brexit transition in seemingly perpetual motion, Simmons and Culkin provide an easily-digestible menu of socio-economic historical context, assessment of contemporary structural stagnation of breakthrough innovation, and forward-looking positive proposals for recovery from Brexit by sustaining a knowledge economy. The authors have delivered a valuable academic text that is both accessible to the lay reader, and provides important insight for businesses, investors and policy makers. In particular, the focus on establishing disruptive innovation through harnessing partnership with academic researchers provides a practical framework to catalyse economic growth that benefits wider society. -- Professor Darragh Murnane, Professor of Pharmaceutics and Deputy Director, The Centre for Doctoral Training in Aerosol ScienceThis is a great little book – aimed as a teach-in for undergraduates and others on what ‘free trade’ means (lots of different things it seems and you can take your pick!) and how, if done correctly, it could stimulate entrepreneurship and encourage growth [...] not only very informative but also at times quite entertaining. -- Vicky Pryce, The Society of Professional EconomistsTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Before We Begin …Definitions Chapter 3. The Menu – Differing Trade Theories Chapter 4. The Aperitif 400 Years of Change;– Southwark and Cumulative Causation Chapter 5. The Sorbet -Economic Background Chapter 6. The Soup – Nationalism Popularism, Trade and Development Chapter 7. The Seasoning? - The Anglosphere Chapter 8. "Specials” – Innovation, Trade Growth and the Entrepreneur Chapter 9. Main Course - Shocks, Trade & Growth Chapter 10. Two Twists – Regulations and Monopolies Chapter 11. Pause for Reflection, Britain in 1910 Chapter 12. Dessert Menu – Acquiring Resources to Support Innovation Chapter 13. The “Digestif” Cumulative Causation Chapter 14. Coffee and Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe merchant, Paul Brandt, moved from Stettin (now in Poland) to Hamburg in 1686. His business prospered and four generations later, fifteen-year-old Wilhelm Brandt was apprenticed to the merchant Alexander Christian Becker in Archangel. Trading flourished in a variety of commodities including timber, flax, skins and sugar, and in 1805 Wilhelm's older brother Emanuel Heinrich moved to London and set up the agency for the Archangel business which subsequently became the family bank. Peter Augustus Brandt (ninth generation) was born in 1931, and after Eton, Cambridge and national service in the Royal Navy joined Wm Brandt's in 1954, becoming managing director in 1966. After the bank's successes in the 1960s, it was taken over by National and Grindlays and eventually sold in 1972, 160 years after its founding. With over 70 illustrations, many in colour, including family portraits, houses, documents and artefacts from the archives. Maps of Germany, the Baltic, England and Archangel show places with which the family and its businesses were associated.

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Book SynopsisMerchants and Revolution examines the activities of London's merchant community during the early Stuart period. Proposing a new understanding of long-term commercial change, Robert Brenner explains the factors behind the opening of long-distance commerce to the south and east, describing how the great City merchants wielded power to exploit emerging business opportunities, and he profiles the new colonial traders, who became the chief architects of the Commonwealth's dynamic commercial policy.Trade ReviewBrenner has made more discoveries of importance about the period than any of his contemporaries. * London Review of Books *Constantly provocative, a giant of a book. * Times Literary Supplement *If Brenner's work suggests new beginnings, its primary focus is on some of the most venerable debates in British historiography. * Reviews in American History *

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Book SynopsisThe 2019 International Trade Statistics Yearbook, Volume II: Trade by Product: provides a condensed and integrated analytical view of the international merchandise trade, and trade in services up to the year 2019 by means of brief descriptive text, concise data tables and charts. The information presented in the publication give an insight into the latest trends of trade of around 260 commodity categories and 11 categories of services.

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Book SynopsisAgricultural products are one of Vietnam's most important exports, contributing considerably to the overall export turnover of the country. Vietnam's agricultural exports are easily affected by external factors. It is overly dependent on the Chinese market, and its agricultural products do not as yet meet strict global standards. Challenges facing Vietnam's export of fruits and vegetables to the Chinese market include technical barriers, long risk assessment periods, restrictions on products exported through official quotas to the Chinese market, and frequent changes in China's policy on border crossings. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of market diversification to this sector. To further develop its agricultural export sector, Vietnam needs to gather and consolidate information on import standards and guide its farmers on product quality requirements. Besides, efforts to gradually diversify its markets are essential for it to avoid being dependent on a small number of partners and markets. Vietnam's participation in international organizations such as ASEAN, APEC, WTO, and AEC exemplifies its increasingly active efforts at seeking new development opportunities. The seventeen bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements which have been signed by Vietnam partly demonstrates efforts at achieving market diversification.

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Book SynopsisAn explosive investigation into how the United States of America built one of the largest illicit offshore finance systems in the world. For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance tied directly to corrupt regimes, extremist networks, and the worst the world has to offer. But it hasn’t been the sand-splattered Caribbean islands, or even traditional financial secrecy havens like Switzerland or Panama that have come to dominate the offshoring world. Instead, the country profiting the most also happens to be the one that still claims to be the moral leader of the free world, and the one that claims to be leading the fight against the crooked and the corrupt: the United States of America. American Kleptocracy examines just how the United States’ implosion into a centre of global offshoring took place: how states such as Delaware and Nevada perfected the art of the anonymous shell company; how post-9/11 reformers watched their success usher in a new flood of illicit finance directly into the U.S.; how African despots and post-Soviet oligarchs came to dominate American coastlines, American industries, and entire cities and small towns across the American Midwest; how Nazi-era lobbyists birthed an entire industry of spin-men whitewashing transnational crooks and despots, and how dirty money has now begun infiltrating America’s universities, think tanks, and cultural centres; and how those on the frontline are trying to restore America’s legacy of anti-corruption leadership ― and finally end this reign of American kleptocracy. It also looks at how Trump’s presidency accelerated all of the trends already on hand ― and how the Biden administration can, and should, act on this tawdry inheritance.Trade Review‘Casey Michel cuts through the spin, to reveal the inner workings of the American economy. His writing has shown again and again the subterfuges and secrecy at the heart of how money moves through the financial system, and does it with panache, wit, and a blessed aversion to jargon. I always read his work, and can't wait to read this one.’ -- Oliver Bullough, author of the international bestseller Moneyland: the inside story of the crooks and kleptocrats who rule the world‘Casey is the foremost journalistic voice in the fight against kleptocracy. No other individual is so consistently on the case and interested in both the actors and the possible policy responses. His knowledge of the existential danger posed by kleptocracy is bar none, and we rely on his work like no one else to inform policy.’ -- Paul Massaro, Congressional Policy Advisor to US Helsinki Commission‘Michel masterfully recounts the tragicomic outcomes when outre autocrats meet serviceable financial and legal systems.’ -- Martin Sandbu * Financial Times *‘Remarkable and perspicacious … an important and eye-opening book.’ -- Bradley Hope, New York Times bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale‘Remarkable and well-researched … Casey Michel shows how the U.S. has taken the top spot at the ease of doing illicit business legally.’ -- Katharina Pistor, author of Code of Capital‘An indefatigable young American journalist who has virtually cornered the international kleptocracy beat on the U.S. end of the black aquifer.’ * The Los Angeles Review of Books *‘Mr Michel builds his book around two characters, both prolific users of America’s financial-secrecy infrastructure, deftly weaving together their stories and his analysis.’ * The Economist *‘Clearly-written, compelling, and fast-paced … a clarion call for citizens and those at all levels of government who have not yet realised that we need to clean up our own act to protect ourselves from predatory adversaries.’ -- Fiona Hill, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution‘Casey Michel brings home the extent to which the United States has fuelled money laundering, corruption, and other crimes plaguing the world. His passionate writing comes from his outrage at what has gone on in our own backyard and his understanding of what is at stake, namely trillions of dollars hidden from our national treasury with help from U.S. banks. Readers will learn why it is critical for Americans to look inward and do more to stop the abuses here at home that are helping to power illicit finance around the world.’ -- Senator Carl Levin‘Rule-of-law democracies are engaged in a clash of civilisations against international criminals, kleptocrats, and corrupt politicians. Michel exposes the troubling role the U.S. has played in facilitating the dark economy and underscores the urgent need for transparency, reform, and accountability.’ -- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse‘If the right person writes the right book, and enough of the right people read it, incredible changes can take place. Casey Michel has written such a book. In the right hands, it could spur policy shifts in the U.S. that would have global ramifications.’ -- Jasmin Mujanovic, author of Hunger and Fury ‘Compelling and colourful … Casey Michel is one of the United States’ brightest emerging foreign policy thinkers — a scholar, journalist, and policy expert who has spent years chronicling the rise of globalised corruption in meticulous detail. In American Kleptocracy, he provides the definitive account of the defining threat of our era — weaving together an irresistible narrative with a bold but pragmatic agenda for reform that can end America’s complicity in foreign corruption.’ -- Nate Sibley head of Hudson Institute's Kleptocracy Initiative‘American Kleptocracy is essential reading to understand how the U.S. has become the global destination for dirty money. Michel exposes the international shell games that the super-wealthy and their professional enablers deploy to launder and stash cash. He exposes why this matters, as illicit funds disrupt local real estate markets and undermine honest economic activity.’ -- Chuck Collins, director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, and author of The Wealth Hoarders: how billionaires pay millions to hide trillions‘In this vitally important book, Casey Michel follows the money. He shows us how, and why, so much of it ends up in American luxury real estate, hedge funds, startups, and shell corporations. Compelling true-life stories, carefully marshaled statistics, and careful analysis combine to make Michel’s book the must-read account of one of the key challenges of our time.’ -- Dan Nexon, professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony‘[Casey Michel is] owed a debt of gratitude by free people everywhere.’ -- Thor Halvorssen, president of the Human Rights Foundation‘Journalist Michel debuts with a blistering account of how greed, deregulation, and deliberate avoidance have enabled dictators and drug cartels to launder their illicit profits in the US … Through rigorous research and cogent prose, Michel builds a persuasive case that the influx of unregulated money decimates America’s industrial regions and poses a grave threat to democracy. This is a stunning portrait of avarice run amok.’ * Publishers Weekly *‘Michel’s clear prose helps make a complicated subject comprehensible, and leaves readers with some hope that financial corruption may not be so inevitable after all.’ * Booklist *‘[Michel] is a masterful storyteller who grips readers with truthful and disturbing accounts of outlandish schemes … eye-opening and comprehensive.’ * Library Journal *‘Michel, a dogged investigative reporter, is as knowledgeable as they come on financial corruption in and around the United States. In American Kleptocracy, he brings it all together … Michel makes a convincing case that there has never been an illicit financial system as robust and versatile as the one the US has created, a shadow economy servicing financiers, lobbyists, old money and the newly corrupted.’ * CrimeReads *‘[A] compact grenade of a book.’ -- Gideon Haigh * The Weekend Australian *

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Book SynopsisAfter the Second World War, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) promoted trade liberalization to help make the world prosperous and peaceful. Francine McKenzie uses case studies of the Cold War, the creation of the EEC and other regional trade agreements, development, and agriculture, to show that trade is a primary goal of foreign policy, a dominant (and divisive) aspect of international relations, and a vital component of global order. She unpacks the many ways in which trade was politicised, and the layers of meaning associated with trade; trade policies, as well as disputes about trade, communicated ideas, hopes and fears that were linked to larger questions of identity, sovereignty, and status. This study reveals how the economic and political dimensions of foreign policy and international engagement intersected, showing that trade was not only instrumentalised in the service of particular policies or relations but that it was also an essential aspect of international relations.Trade Review'With trade protectionism on the rise today, it is vitally important to understand the origins of the post-World War II trading system. Francine McKenzie has written an insightful and illuminating study on the difficult past of the GATT that will be of great interest to historians, economists, and political scientists alike.' Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College'GATT as 'the 'Cinderella of international organizations'? McKenzie's innovative study of GATT situates international trade in global politics and reminds us why the history of economics on an international scale matters. As the clock moves closer to midnight, GATT and Global Order helps us understand the paradoxes of the twentieth century international economic order, and how difficult it is to disentangle the fiscal tenets of asymmetrical globalization from the established virtues of international cooperation.' Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney/ European University Institute'This bold book brings into one place the issues, events, debates, policies, and people of the GATT during its half-century history. This is both a survey and an in-depth, multi-archival examination of a major institution – a truly amazing undertaking with results that are oftentimes breath-taking in their scope.' Tom Zeiler, University of Colorado Boulder'International historian Francine McKenzie has consulted numerous primary sources around the world, as well as secondary sources, to write an account of this important trade policy institution. Organized around four broad themes - the Cold War, regionalism, development, and agriculture - the study shows and analyses what negotiators and policy makers thought, behind the often bland or triumphant compromise public statements.' James Foreman-Peck, EH.net (Economic History Association)Table of ContentsIntroduction: GATT in World Affairs; 1. Accidental Organization: Origins and Early Years of GATT; 2. 'An Arrow in the Western World's Quiver': The Cold War Challenge to GATT; 3. 'Take It or Leave It': The EEC Challenge to GATT; 4. 'Spread Like the Plague': The Regional Challenge to GATT; 5. 'Rich Man's Club': The Development Challenge to GATT; 6. 'Agricultural Anarchy': The Agriculture Challenge to GATT; Conclusion: The Embattled History of GATT.

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Book SynopsisDiscussion of the governance of global trade and the multilateral trading system is too often dominated by developed-country scholars and opinion-makers, with inadequate attention given to developing country perspectives. Making Global Trade Governance Work for Development gathers a diversity of developing country views on how to improve the governance of global trade and the WTO to better advance sustainable development and respond to the needs of developing countries. With contributions by senior scholars, commentators and practitioners, the essays combine new, empirically-grounded research with practical insights about the trade policy-making process. They consider the specific governance issues of interest to developing countries and acknowledge the changing dynamics in the global economy and in trade decision-making.Table of ContentsIntroduction Carolyn Deere Birkbeck; Part I. Enduring Development Challenges and New Agendas for Global Trade Governance: 1. Globalization, development, and democracy José Antonio Ocampo; 2. The United Nations and the Millennium development goals: what roles in and beyond the governance of global trade? Laskhmi Puri; 3. The interactions of trade, macroeconomic policies and sustainability: implications for global trade governance Alejandro Nadal; 4. A sustainable development perspective on global trade governance Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz and Trineesh Biswas; Part II. Roles and Responsibilities in Global Trade Governance: Diversity in Developing Country Priorities and Strategies: 5. New powers in the club: the challenges of global trade governance Amrita Narlikar; 6. China's ascent in global trade governance: from rule taker to rule shaker and, maybe rule maker? Henry Gao; 7. LDC priorities for improved global trade governance Atul Kaushik and Julian Mukiibi; 8. Priorities for small states in global trade governance Edwin Laurent; 9. Improving the participation of small developing countries in the governance of the multilateral trading system Richard Bernal; Part III. Strengthening Multilateralism: Priorities for WTO Reform: 10. The WTO, democracy, and development: a view from the South Bhupinder Chimni; 11. Reclaiming development in the world trading system revisited Yong-Shik Lee; 12. Fostering developing country engagement in the dispute settlement system: outstanding challenges and governance implications Niall Meagher; 13. Rethinking the governance of aid for trade David Luke and Luisa Bernal; 14. Strengthening WTO surveillance: making transparency work for developing countries Arunabha Ghosh; 15. Why not an Ombudsman at the WTO? A proposal for debate Félix Peña; Part IV. WTO Decision-Making Processes: 16. Towards fair and inclusive decision-making in WTO negotiations Brendan Vickers and Faizel Ismail; 17. Revisiting the single undertaking: towards a more balanced approach to WTO negotiations Miguel Rodríguez and Marie Wilke; 18. Enhancing developing country participation in global trade governance through South-South coalitions in the World Trade Organization Vicente Yu; 19. Inclusive trade governance: participation of stakeholders from the national to the multilateral levels Rashid Kaukab; 20. Global trade governance and development: the WTO accession conundrum Carlos Primo Braga and Olivier Cattaneo; Part V. Conclusion: 21. Development-oriented agendas for global trade governance: a summary of proposals Carolyn Deere Birkbeck.

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Book SynopsisVolume 20 of the ICSID Reports includes summaries, digests and excerpts of decisions rendered between 2009 and 2020 in 16 cases involving States from across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, reflecting the breadth of contemporary practice.Table of ContentsBayindir Insaat Turizm Ticaret Ve Sanayi A.Ş. v. Islamic Republic of Pakistan (ICSID Case No. ARB/03/29) Summary and digest by Devon Robertson, White & Case LLP, Award, 27 August 2009, paras. 111–30; EDF (Services) Limited v. Romania (ICSID Case No. ARB/05/13), Summary and digest by Jaime Gallego, LALIVE, Award, 8 October 2009, paras. 185–213; Kardassopoulos and Fuchs v. Republic of Georgia (ICSID Case Nos. ARB/05/18 and ARB/07/15), Summary and digest by Bart Wasiak, Alice Osman and Anton A Ware,Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Award, 3 March 2010, paras. 269–80; Gustav F W Hamester GmbH & Co KG v. Republic of Ghana (ICSID Case No. ARB/07/24), Summary and digest by Gabriela Alvarez-Avila and James McGlaughlin, Curtis, Mallet‑Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, Award, 18 June 2010, paras. 140–204, 212–56, 263–68 and 277–95; Tulip Real Estate Investment and Development Netherlands B.V. v. Republic of Turkey (ICSID Case No. ARB/11/28), Summary and digest by Carlos Hernández Durán, Uría Menéndez Abogados SLP, Award, 10 March 2014, paras. 276–328; Separate Opinion of Michael Evan Jaffe on the Question of Attribution Under Art 8, ILC Articles, 7 March 2014, paras. 1–11, Decision on Annulment, 30 December 2015, paras. 145–60, 171–202 and 211–21; Mesa Power Group, LLC v. Government of Canada (PCA Case No. 2012-17), Summary and digest by Eduardo Silva Romero, David L Attanasio and Rose Marie Wong, Dechert LLP, Award, 24 March 2016, paras. 339–77; Almås and Almås v. Republic of Poland (PCA Case No. 2015-13), Summary and digest by Thomas F Lane and Robert Price, Latham & Watkins, Award, 27 June 2016, paras. 204–72; Flemingo DutyFree Shop Private Limited v. Republic of Poland (PCA Case No. 2014-11), Summary and digest by Vasuda Sinha and Felix Schaff, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Award, 12 August 2016, paras. 349–448; Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Europe v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/13), Summary and digest by Ofilio J Mayorga and José M García Rebolledo, Foley Hoag LLP, Decision on Liability and the Principles of Quantum, 30 December 2016, paras. 368–73, 440–77 and 505–42; Ampal-American Israel Corp., EGI-Fund (08-10) Investors LLC, EGI-Series Investments LLC, BSS-EMG Investors LLC and Fischer v. Arab Republic of Egypt (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/11), Summary and digest by Berk Demirkol, University of Galatasaray, Decision on Liability and Heads of Loss, 21 February 2017, paras. 71–147; Beijing Urban Construction Group Co. Ltd. v. Republic of Yemen (ICSID Case No. ARB/14/30), Summary and digest by Kyongwha Chung, Covington & Burling LLP, Decision on Jurisdiction, 31 May 2017, paras. 29–47; Tethyan Copper Pty Limited v. Islamic Republic of Pakistan (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/1), Summary and digest by Oliver Hailes, University of Cambridge, Decision on Jurisdiction and Liability, 10 November 2017, paras. 689–747 and 1420–23; Gavrilović and Gavrilović d.o.o. v. Republic of Croatia (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/39), Summary and digest by Zachary Kady and Colleen Devine, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Award, 25 July 2018, paras. 760–832; Unión Fenosa Gas, S.A. v. Arab Republic of Egypt (ICSID Case No. ARB/14/4), Summary and digest by Alexander Ferguson, University of Cambridge, Award, 31 August 2018, paras. 9.90–9.121, Dissenting Opinion of Mark Clodfelter, 31 August 2018, paras. 44–49; Ortiz Construcciones y Proyectos S.A. v. People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (ICSID Case No. ARB/17/1), Summary, digest and translation by Damien Charlotin, IAReporter, Award, 29 April 2020, paras. 148–263; Strabag SE v. Libya (ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/15/1), Summary and digest by Zeïneb Bouraoui, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Award, 29 June 2020, paras. 155–88.

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Book SynopsisThe severe global financial crisis of 2008 could not be overcome without government interventions through industrial policy. This timely book analyses industrial policy from the perspectives of trade law and economics under the WTO system. The author expertly examines both general tools of protecting and supporting domestic producers and specific topics like special economic zones, localization, greening measures and creative economy. In addition to legal texts and jurisprudence, this book extensively utilizes other WTO materials to show what is actually discussed in WTO meetings and forums on relevant issues. Where applicable, the author advances practical recommendations for ''right'' or ''optimal'' industrial policy in certain contexts based on trade rules, case law and some countries'' real experiences. The author concludes this work with some thoughts on concrete actions to be taken at the WTO and national levels and in academic circles in order to better tackle industrial policy issues.Trade Review'Professor Shadikhodjaev has written a must-have reference book for anyone who cares about the role of governments in the global economy and world trading system.' Julia Ya Qin, Wayne State University and Peking University International Law Institute'This informative book describes what forms of industrial policy are consistent with the rules of the World Trade Organization. The book is densely written and thick with legal terminology, but it is valuable as an authoritative reference work. In addition to analyzing WTO policies, Shadikhodjaev provides a useful catalog of areas where the WTO's rules are ambiguous and suggests how they might be clarified and improved.' Richard N. Cooper, Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsPart I. General Tools of Industrial Policy: 1. Industrial policy under the global trade regime; 1.1. The conceptual framework for industrial policy; 1.2. The multilateral trading system and industrial policy; 1.3. Concluding remarks; 2. Protection of domestic industry; 2.1. Border restrictions; 2.2. Taxes; 2.3. Product standards; 2.4. Protection of services industries; 2.5. Concluding remarks; 3. Promotion of domestic industry; 3.1. The economics of government subsidies; 3.2. The WTO subsidy regime; 3.3. Industrial policies in upstream sectors; 3.4. Concluding remarks; Part II. Special Topics of Industrial Policy: 4. Free zones and industrial development; 4.1. Free zones as an industrial policy tool; 4.2. Free zones under the revised Kyoto Convention; 4.3. Free zones under WTO rules; 4.4. Customs and trade rules: some questions of concurrent application; 4.5. Concluding remarks; 5. Local content requirements and industrialization; 5.1. LCRs and world practice; 5.2. Review of the economic literature; 5.3. The scope of the WTO-applicability to LCRs; 5.4. Legality of LCRs under WTO rules; 5.5. Data localization requirements as an emerging issue; 5.6. Concluding remarks; 6. The greening of industrial policy; 6.1. Environmental dimensions of industrial policy and trade; 6.2. Border carbon adjustments; 6.3. Renewable energy subsidies; 6.4. Environmental labels; 6.5. Environmental exceptions under GATT Article XX; 6.6. Harmonization of the trade and environmental regimes; 6.7. Concluding remarks; 7. Industrial policy in the age of creative economy; 7.1. Creative economy as a new paradigm of industrial policy; 7.2. The status of creative products under the WTO legal framework; 7.3. Creative economy and technological progress under WTO law; 7.4. Policy space for trade restrictions on creative products; 7.5. Concluding remarks.

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Book SynopsisSince the publication of its first edition, this textbook has been the prime choice of teachers and students alike, due to its clear and detailed explanation of the basic principles of the multilateral trading system and the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The fifth edition continues to explore the institutional and substantive law of the WTO. It has been updated to incorporate all new developments in the WTO''s ever-growing body of case law. Moreover, each chapter includes a ''Further Readings'' section to encourage and facilitate research and discussion on the topics addressed. As in previous editions, each chapter also features a summary to reinforce learning. Questions, assignments, and exercises on WTO law and policy are contained in an online supplement, updated regularly. This textbook is an essential tool for all WTO law students and will also serve as a practitioner''s introductory guide to the WTO.Table of Contents1. International trade and the law of the WTO; 2. The World Trade Organization; 3. WTO dispute settlement; 4. Most-favoured-nation treatment; 5. National treatment; 6. Tariff barriers; 7. Non-tariff barriers; 8. General and security exceptions; 9. Economic emergency exceptions; 10. Regional trade exceptions; 11. Dumping; 12. Subsidies; 13. Technical barriers to trade; 14. Sanitary and phytosanitary measures; 15. Intellectual property rights; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Dispute Settlement Reports are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. DSR 2017: Volume 8 reports on Indonesia - Measures Concerning the Importation of Chicken Meat and Chicken Products (WT/DS484), United States - Measures Concerning the Importation, Marketing and Sale of Tuna and Tuna Products (WT/DS381/ARB) and United States - Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Measures on Large Residential Washers from Korea (WT/DS464/RPT).Table of ContentsIndonesia – Measures Concerning the Importation of Chicken Meat and Chicken Products (WT/DS484); Report of the Panel; United States – Measures Concerning the Importation, Marketing and Sale of Tuna and Tuna Products (WT/DS381/ARB); Decision by the Arbitrator; United States – Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Measures on Large Residential Washers from Korea (WT/DS464/RPT); Award of the arbitrator; Cumulative list of published disputes.

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Book SynopsisThe Dispute Settlement Reports are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. DSR 2017: Volume 7 reports on Indonesia - Importation of Horticultural Products, Animals and Animal Products (WT/DS477, WT/DS478).Table of ContentsIndonesia – Importation of Horticultural Products, Animals and Animal Products (WT/DS477, WT/DS478); Reports of the Appellate Body; Reports of the Panel; Cumulative list of published disputes.

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Book SynopsisThe Dispute Settlement Reports are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. DSR 2017: Volume 6 reports on European Union - Anti-Dumping Measures on Imports of Certain Fatty Alcohols from Indonesia (WT/DS442).Table of ContentsEuropean Union – Anti-Dumping Measures on Imports of Certain Fatty Alcohols from Indonesia (WT/DS442); Report of the Appellate Body; Report of the panel; Cumulative list of published disputes.

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Book SynopsisThe Dispute Settlement Reports are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. DSR 2017: Volume 5 reports on United States - Conditional Tax Incentives for Large Civil Aircraft (WT/DS487).Table of ContentsUnited States – Conditional Tax Incentives for Large Civil Aircraft (WT/DS487); Report of the Appellate Body; Report of the Panel; Cumulative list of published disputes.

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Book SynopsisThe Dispute Settlement Reports are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. DSR 2017: Volume 4 reports on United States - Certain Methodologies and their Application to Anti-Dumping Proceedings Involving China (WT/DS471) and China - Anti-Dumping Measures on Imports of Cellulose Pulp from Canada (WT/DS483).Table of ContentsUnited States – Certain Methodologies and their Application to Anti-Dumping Proceedings Involving China (WT/DS471); Report of the Panel; China – Anti-Dumping Measures on Imports of Cellulose Pulp from Canada (WT/DS483); Report of the Panel; Cumulative list of published disputes.

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Book SynopsisThe Dispute Settlement Reports are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. DSR 2017: Volume 3 reports on European Union - Measures Affecting Tariff Concessions on Certain Poultry Meat Products (WT/DS492) and United States - Certain Methodologies and their Application to Anti-Dumping Proceedings Involving China (WT/DS471).Table of ContentsEuropean Union – Measures Affecting Tariff Concessions on Certain Poultry Meat Products (WT/DS492); Report of the Panel; United States – Certain Methodologies and their Application to Anti-Dumping Proceedings Involving China (WT/DS471); Report of the Appellate Body; Cumulative list of published disputes.

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Book SynopsisThe Dispute Settlement Reports are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. DSR 2017: Volume 2 reports on Russian Federation - Measures on the Importation of Live Pigs, Pork and Other Pig Products from the European Union (WT/DS475).Table of ContentsRussian Federation – Measures on the Importation of Live Pigs, Pork and Other Pig Products from the European Union (WT/DS475); Report of the Panel; Cumulative list of published disputes.

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Book SynopsisThe Dispute Settlement Reports are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide taking courses in international economic or trade law. DSR 2017: Volume 1 reports on Canada - Anti-Dumping Measures on Imports of Certain Carbon Steel Welded Pipe from the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu (WT/DS482) and Russian Federation - Measures on the Importation of Live Pigs, Pork and Other Pig Products from the European Union (WT/DS475).Table of ContentsCanada – Anti-Dumping Measures on Imports of Certain Carbon Steel Welded Pipe from the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu (WT/DS482); Report of the Panel; Russian Federation - Measures on the Importation of Live Pigs, Pork and Other Pig Products from the European Union (WT/DS475); Report of the Appellate Body; Cumulative list of published disputes.

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Book SynopsisThese are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide studying international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2018: ITable of ContentsUnited States – Anti-Dumping Measures on Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from Korea (WT/DS488); United States – Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Measures on Certain Coated Paper from Indonesia (WT/DS491); Cumulative List of Published Disputes

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Book SynopsisThese are the WTO's authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practising trade lawyers and a useful tool for students and academics worldwide working in the field of international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2019: VIITable of ContentsKorea – Import Bans, and Testing and Certification Requirements for Radionuclides (WT/DS495); Cumulative List of Published Disputes.

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Book SynopsisThese are the WTO's authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practising trade lawyers and a useful tool for students and academics worldwide working in the field of international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2019: VIIITable of ContentsRussia – Measures Concerning Traffic in Transit (WT/DS512); Cumulative List of Published Disputes.

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Book SynopsisThese are the WTO's authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practising trade lawyers and a useful tool for students and academics worldwide working in the field of international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2019: IXTable of ContentsUnited States – Countervailing Duty Measures on Certain Products from China (WT/DS437); Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by China; Cumulative List of Published Disputes.

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Book SynopsisThese are the WTO's authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practising trade lawyers and a useful tool for students and academics worldwide working in the field of international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2019: XTable of ContentsUkraine – Anti-Dumping Measures on Ammonium Nitrate (WT/DS493); Cumulative List of Published Disputes.

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Book SynopsisThese are the WTO's authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practising trade lawyers and a useful tool for students and academics worldwide working in the field of international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2019: XI.Table of ContentsKorea – Anti-Dumping Duties on Pneumatic Valves from Japan (WT/DS504); Cumulative List of Published Disputes.

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Book SynopsisThese are the WTO's authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practising trade lawyers and a useful tool for students and academics worldwide working in the field of international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2019: XIITable of ContentsUnited States – Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Measures on Large Residential Washers from Korea (WT/DS464); Recourse to Article 22.6 of the DSU by the United States; European Communities and Certain Member States – Measures Affecting Trade in Large Civil Aircraft (WT/DS316); Recourse to Article 22.6 of the DSU by the European Union; United States – Certain Methodologies and their Application to Anti-Dumping Proceedings Involving China (WT/DS471); Recourse to Article 22.6 of the DSU by the United States; Cumulative List of Published Disputes.

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Book SynopsisThese are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide studying international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2018: VTable of ContentsEuropean Communities and Certain Member States – Measures Affecting Trade in Large Civil Aircraft – Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by the United States (WT/DS316); Cumulative List of Published Disputes

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Book SynopsisThese are the WTO's authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practising trade lawyers and a useful tool for students and academics worldwide working in the field of international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2019: I.Table of ContentsBrazil – Certain Measures Concerning Taxation and Charges (WT/DS472, WT/DS497); Cumulative List of Published Disputes.

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Book SynopsisThese are the WTO's authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practising trade lawyers and a useful tool for students and academics worldwide working in the field of international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2019: IITable of ContentsBrazil – Certain Measures Concerning Taxation and Charges (WT/DS472, WT/DS497).

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