Processes and Production Methods (Ppms) in Wto Law - Interfacing Trade and Social Goals

An analysis of the conditions under which trade-restrictive measures linked to PPMs are, and should be, legal in WTO law.

List of contents

Part I. Foundations. The Relevance of NPA Measures at the Interface of Domestic Regulation, Economic Globalization, and World Trade Law: 1. Setting the stage for the legal analysis; 2. Putting the debate into perspective: analysis of the socio-economic context; Part II. Legal Analysis. Reviewing the Status of NPA Measures De Le Ge Lata: 3. Preliminary considerations. Applicability of WTO law and other international law to NPA measures; 4. Consistency with GATT obligations; 5. Limits to the justification of NPA measures under the general exceptions; 6. The status of PPM measures under the TBT agreement and the SPS agreement; Part III. Outlook. New Perspectives on the Legal Status of NPA Measures: 7. The interface of international trade and public policies: an overview of existing proposals for reform; 8. A regulation-based perspective on NPA trade measures.

About the author

Christiane R. Conrad is an attorney at law and inhouse lawyer with a telecommunications company in Germany. She was a member of the Collaborative Research Center 'Transformations of State' at the University of Bremen and she has also been a Visiting Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center.

Summary

Debates over how WTO law should deal with regulatory measures linked to processes and production methods (PPMs) have long gone unsolved. Here, Christiane Conrad offers a comprehensive legal analysis and proposes a novel approach which draws on the objectives and established economic rationales of the WTO Agreements.

Product details

• Authors: Christiane R. Conrad, Christiane R. (Universitat Bremen) Conrad, Conrad Christiane R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2014
• EAN: 9781107694156
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69415-6
• No. of pages: 566
• Series: Cambridge International Trade; Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, trade agreements, International Economics, International Trade, International economic & trade law, Public international law: economic and trade