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Title:A turquoise mess : green subsidies, blue industrial policy and renewable energy : the case for redrafting the subsidies agreement of the WTO Author(s):COSBEY, Aaron; MAVROIDIS, Petros C.
Date:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2014/17; Global Governance Programme-82; Global EconomicsAbstract:Canada-Renewable Energy presented the WTO Panel and Appellate Body (AB) with a novel issue: at the heart of the dispute was a measure adopted by the province of Ontario whereby producers of renewable energy would be paid ...
Date:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2014/17; Global Governance Programme-82; Global EconomicsAbstract:Canada-Renewable Energy presented the WTO Panel and Appellate Body (AB) with a novel issue: at the heart of the dispute was a measure adopted by the province of Ontario whereby producers of renewable energy would be paid ...
Title:Reaching out for green policies : national environmental policies in the WTO legal order Author(s):MAVROIDIS, Petros C.Date:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2014/21; Global Governance Programme-85; Global EconomicsAbstract:The WTO does not squarely address the issue of jurisdictional ambit of national policies (affecting trade). And yet, absent some agreement as to what trading nations can and cannot do, the WTO loses much of its effectiveness. ...
Date:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2014/21; Global Governance Programme-85; Global EconomicsAbstract:The WTO does not squarely address the issue of jurisdictional ambit of national policies (affecting trade). And yet, absent some agreement as to what trading nations can and cannot do, the WTO loses much of its effectiveness. ...
Title:The G20 and the global trading system : leveraging the Asia-pacific experience Author(s):HOEKMAN, Bernard M. 
Date:2014Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS PP; 2014/09; Global Governance Programme; Global EconomicsAbstract:There is a growing disconnect between the need to bolster the multilateral trading system and the willingness of the world’s major economies to cooperate to do so. Concerted action on trade reform can help to support the ...
Date:2014Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS PP; 2014/09; Global Governance Programme; Global EconomicsAbstract:There is a growing disconnect between the need to bolster the multilateral trading system and the willingness of the world’s major economies to cooperate to do so. Concerted action on trade reform can help to support the ...
Title:The age of innocence : the evolution of the case-law of the WTO dispute settlement: subsidies as a case-study Author(s):RUBINI, LucaDate:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2016/33; Global Governance Programme-222; [Global Economics]Abstract:Through the analysis of the topical and salient jurisprudence on subsidies and countervailing duties, this paper attempts to trace the development of the role of dispute settlement in the WTO in its first twenty years. ...
Date:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2016/33; Global Governance Programme-222; [Global Economics]Abstract:Through the analysis of the topical and salient jurisprudence on subsidies and countervailing duties, this paper attempts to trace the development of the role of dispute settlement in the WTO in its first twenty years. ...
Title:Rules of origin as non-tariff measures : towards greater regulatory convergence Author(s):HOEKMAN, Bernard M. ; INAMA, StefanoDate:2017Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2017/45; Global Governance Programme-279; Global EconomicsAbstract:This paper examines some of the features of rules of origin (RoO) that makes these policy instruments nontariff measures, reflects on the causes of the longstanding deadlock in the WTO on multilateral harmonization of ...
; INAMA, StefanoDate:2017Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2017/45; Global Governance Programme-279; Global EconomicsAbstract:This paper examines some of the features of rules of origin (RoO) that makes these policy instruments nontariff measures, reflects on the causes of the longstanding deadlock in the WTO on multilateral harmonization of ...
Title:Last mile for tuna (to a safe harbor) : what is the TBT agreement all about? Author(s):MAVROIDIS, Petros C.Date:2018Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2018/03; Global Governance Programme-292; [Global Economics]Abstract:The WTO Agreement on TBT (Technical Barriers to Trade) aims at taming NTBs (nontariff barriers), the main instrument segmenting markets nowadays. Some of the terms used to flesh out the commitments undertaken are borrowed ...
Date:2018Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2018/03; Global Governance Programme-292; [Global Economics]Abstract:The WTO Agreement on TBT (Technical Barriers to Trade) aims at taming NTBs (nontariff barriers), the main instrument segmenting markets nowadays. Some of the terms used to flesh out the commitments undertaken are borrowed ...
Title:Free markets, state involvement, and the WTO : Chinese state owned enterprises (SOEs) in the ring Author(s):MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; JANOW, Merit E.Date:2017Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2017/13; Global Governance Programme-256; Global EconomicsAbstract:The WTO has struggled with the treatment of nonmarket economies (NMEs). What was a nonissue in the original GATT (because of the homogeneity of participants) became quite an issue with the accession of formally centrally ...
; JANOW, Merit E.Date:2017Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2017/13; Global Governance Programme-256; Global EconomicsAbstract:The WTO has struggled with the treatment of nonmarket economies (NMEs). What was a nonissue in the original GATT (because of the homogeneity of participants) became quite an issue with the accession of formally centrally ...
Title:The gang that couldn't shoot straight : the not so magnificent seven of the WTO appellate body Author(s):MAVROIDIS, Petros C.Date:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2016/31; Global Governance Programme-220; [Global Economics]Abstract:The WTO Appellate Body (AB) has produced a volume-wise important body of case law, which is often difficult to penetrate, never mind classify. Howse (2016) has attempted a very lucid taxonomy of the case law using the ...
Date:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2016/31; Global Governance Programme-220; [Global Economics]Abstract:The WTO Appellate Body (AB) has produced a volume-wise important body of case law, which is often difficult to penetrate, never mind classify. Howse (2016) has attempted a very lucid taxonomy of the case law using the ...