Rüdiger Wolfrum, Peter-Tobias Stoll and Clemens Feinäugle, WTO: Trade in Services, Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law, Vol. 6

2010 ◽  
pp. 477-480
Author(s):  
Christoph Ohler
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Trade In Services ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Trade Law

Lawful Remedy or Illegal Response? Resolving the Issue of Foreign Subsidization Under WTO Law

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Victor Crochet ◽  
Marcus Gustafsson
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Fair Competition ◽  
Trade Law ◽  
International Trade Law ◽  
The World ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Do So

Abstract Discontentment is growing such that governments, and notably that of China, are increasingly providing subsidies to companies outside their jurisdiction, ‘buying their way’ into other countries’ markets and undermining fair competition therein as they do so. In response, the European Union recently published a proposal to tackle such foreign subsidization in its own market. This article asks whether foreign subsidies can instead be addressed under the existing rules of the World Trade Organization, and, if not, whether those rules allow States to take matters into their own hands and act unilaterally. The authors shed light on these issues and provide preliminary guidance on how to design a response to foreign subsidization which is consistent with international trade law.

scholarly journals Towards a plurilateral Trade in Services Agreement (TISA): Challenges and prospects

2014 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 1440006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Sauvé
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade In Services ◽  
Policy Area ◽  
Forward Movement ◽  
Preferential Trade Agreement ◽  
Services Trade ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Systemic Risks ◽  
The World

This paper addresses a number of policy challenges arising from ongoing attempts to negotiate a plurilateral Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), a recently launched plurilateral negotiating initiative coexisting uneasily alongside the World Trade Organisation's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), particularly in the context of the ongoing Doha Development Agenda. While the TISA offers scope for imparting much needed forward movement to a policy area of central economy-wide and trade importance, such progress, even if realized within the narrower confines of a preferential trade agreement made possible under the GATS, poses a number of systemic risks to the multilateral order extending beyond services trade.

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