1st Edition

Preferential Trade Agreements and International Law

By Graeme Baber Copyright 2019
330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

The multilateral trade agreements in the Annexes to the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization provide a comprehensive structure for international trade. Why would trading partners in different countries feel the need to go outside this framework in order to set up preferential trade arrangements? This book considers the structure of the World Trade Organization’s agreements and... Read more

1. The World Trade Organization’s Multilateral Trade Agreements: Structure and Commentary

2. The Scope for Preferential Trade Agreements within the World Trade Organization's Framework

3. Bilateral Trade Agreements

4. Regional Trade Agreements

5. The Benefits and the Limitations of Preferential Trade Agreements

6. An Assessment of the Value-Added of the Preferential Trade Agreements to the World Trade Organization’s Framework

Biography

Graeme Baber is an independent legal researcher, and has published many articles,

comments, briefings and updates. His previous monographs are The Impact

of Legislation and Regulation on the Freedom of Movement of Capital in Estonia,

Poland and Latvia (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), The Free Movement

of Capital and Financial Services: An Exposition? (Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

2014), The European Union and the Global Financial Crisis: A View from

2016 (Nova Science Publishers, 2016), Essays on International Law (Cambridge

Scholars Publishing, 2017), and International Financial Law: Quo Vadis? (Nova

Science Publishers, 2017). Graeme has written dissertations and chapters for

edited collections, and has presented his work at international conferences. He

is an experienced teacher of university students, lecturing on both international

law and financial law.