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Sanford E.Gaines, Birgitte Egelund Olsen, Karsten Engsig Sørensen (Eds.), Liberalising Trade in the EU and the WTO: A Legal Comparison

Cambridge University Press, 2012; ISBN 9781107012752

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European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2015

Part of the book series: European Yearbook of International Economic Law ((EUROYEAR,volume 6))

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Abstract

The volume is dedicated to comparing EU and WTO legal approaches to problems caused by liberalisation of cross-border trade. It comprises the results of the research project “WTO law and EU law: legal conflict and integration” steered from the law department of the Aarhus University, Denmark. Its 18 chapters attempt to explore the legal state of affairs in both EU and WTO law regarding a broad range of contemporary challenges to national autonomy by striving for harmonised rules in goods and services trade. The book not only deals with a broad range of specific trade topics and fundamental legal issues of international trade relations, but also addresses basic fundamental structures of trade regulation both in WTO and EU law, such as the concept and notion of non-discrimination or the compatibility of trade and non-trade concerns. The red thread throughout the book is a comparative perspective which contrasts approaches and solutions adopted under EU and WTO law. The book serves the ultimate aim of fostering “constructive coordination” of the EU and WTO systems (see the introductory first chapter “Comparing two trade liberalisation regimes” by Gaines/Olsen/Sørensen, p. 8).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See for a list of relevant trade rules Schefer (2010), pp. 269–277; for a highly detailed analysis Conrad (2011), pp. 115–117.

  2. 2.

    E.g. Van den Bossche (2008), p. 283; Andenas and Zleptnig (2007), p. 371. See also Cheyne, in the reviewed volume, p. 309 (325, fn. 89).

  3. 3.

    WTO, report of the Appellate Body, United States—Measures Concerning the Importation, Marketing and Sale of Tuna and Tuna Products, WT/DS381/AB/R, para. 183 et seq.

  4. 4.

    WTO, report of the Appellate Body, United States—Measures Affecting the Production and Sale of Clove Cigarettes, WT/DS406/AB/R, para. 169 et seq.; WTO, report of the Appellate Body, United States—Measures Concerning the Importation, Marketing and Sale of Tuna and Tuna Products, WT/DS381/AB/R, para. 211.

  5. 5.

    CJEU, Pioneer Hi Bred Italia, C-36/11.

  6. 6.

    GC, Pioneer Hi-Bred International v Commission, T-164/10.

  7. 7.

    GC, Hungary v Commission, T-240/10.

  8. 8.

    These issues have recently been dealt with in great detail by Wang et al. (2011), p. 252.

  9. 9.

    See WTO, report of the Appellate Body, European Communities—Anti-Dumping Duties on Imports of Cotton-type Bed Linen from India, WT/DS141/AB/R; WTO, report of the Appellate Body, European Communities—Definitive Anti-Dumping Measures on Certain Iron or Steel Fasteners from China, WT/DS397/AB/R; WTO, report of the Panel, European Union—Anti-Dumping Measures on Certain Footwear from China, WT/DS405/R.

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  1. German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Str. 2, 67346, Speyer, Germany

    Wolfgang Weiß

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  1. Faculty of Law, University of Passau, Passau, Germany

    Christoph Herrmann

  2. Faculty of Law, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Markus Krajewski

  3. Competition and Regulation Institute, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

    Jörg Philipp Terhechte

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Weiß, W. (2015). Sanford E.Gaines, Birgitte Egelund Olsen, Karsten Engsig Sørensen (Eds.), Liberalising Trade in the EU and the WTO: A Legal Comparison. In: Herrmann, C., Krajewski, M., Terhechte, J. (eds) European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2015. European Yearbook of International Economic Law, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46748-0_17

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