The Trade Law E-Casebook is an invaluable new resource by the Geneva Trade Platform that is freely available to anyone with an interest in trade law and trade policy. Created to provide students and universities an alternative to often expensive trade… Read moreTrade Law E-Casebook
Nicolette Butler and Jasem Tarawneh Scholars and policymakers are increasingly reflecting on the capacity of international trade to contribute to the pursuance of environmental objectives. In this vein, this article focuses on the role of environmental services. Traditionally narrowly understood… Read moreThe trade and environment nexus: proposing a broad universal definition of environmental services
Camille Van der Vorst Recent years have seen an increased focus on the implementation of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). While the number of PTAs has risen remarkably since early 2000, data on the utilization of preferential tariffs under these agreements… Read moreAn Economic Assessment of the EU–Japan Economic Partnership Agreement with Realistic Preference Utilization Rates
Jaemin Lee The Dispute Settlement Mechanism (DSM), once regarded as the jewel in the crown of the World Trade Organization (WTO), has been facing a variety of serious criticisms for its inherent limitations and problems while its appellate review function… Read moreLong-Term Relationship over Litigation: Mediation in WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings
Timothy Meyer Despite the absence of a multilateral investment agreement, states have negotiated a wide range of plurilateral investment agreements. Indeed, most of the interesting changes in investment law today are properly conceived of as plurilateral initiatives. These initiatives have… Read morePlurilateralism and the Future of International<br>Investment Law
Meredith Kolsky Lewis Plurilateralism has often been discussed as an alternative to multilateral trade agreements concluded through single undertaking/Uruguay Round-style trade negotiations. However, single undertaking-style multilateral trade liberalization is no longer a feasible approach to sustained progress in international trade… Read morePlurilateralism and Free Trade Agreements
David Collins Building upon the acceptance of divergence away from the multilateral geoeconomic order of the Bretton Woods, this article explores the observed and potential role for plurilateral agreements within international economic law. It contemplates some of the theoretical underpinnings… Read morePlurilateralism and the New Geoeconomics of International Law
Bernard M. Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis Plurilateral agreements among sub-sets of economies have a long history within the multilateral trading system. Plurilateral may appear superficially less attractive than a set of non-discriminatory multilateral rules that apply to all WTO members but… Read morePlurilateral Agreements, Multilateralism and Economic Development
Commonwealth Secretariat Critical minerals mining in Africa plays a crucial role in the global economy, supplying essential resources for advanced technologies. The continent is endowed with abundant deposits, nearly 30 percent of the world’s share of vital minerals, including cobalt,… Read moreEnabling Sustainable Trade in the OECS: The Ocean and Digital Economies
Maria-Grazia Attinasi, Lukas Boeckelmann and Baptiste Meunier As countries and firms increasingly seek ways to strengthen the resilience of their supply chains, this paper studies the global economic costs of a decoupling of global supply chains along geopolitical lines as… Read moreThe economic costs of supply chain decoupling
Anil Gogebakan This paper investigates the relationship between international trade and income, exploiting a dynamic distance measure generated by the growth of container ships and Panama Canal capacity. Employing a version of the gravity model, this paper con-structs an instrument… Read moreRevisiting Trade and Income in the New Era ofGlobalisation—Distance, Big Boats and Natural Barriers to Trade