- 264 pages
- English
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US Trade Policy, China and the World Trade Organisation
About this book
The last few years have been "anni horribiles" for in International Economic Law in general and in particular for the World Trade Organization, since its inception in 1995 the guarantor of the world multilateral trade system. The increasing trade tensions, a high level of US security tariffs on steel and aluminium, the US boycott of the WTO Appellate Body, the US-China "trade war" and the reasons underlining it, only aggravated a disastrous world-wide economic situation at a time of tremendous global health and societal emergency, due to the persistent devastating spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book critically discusses the most salient past US administration's unilateralist and protectionist practices. At the same time investigating the new Biden Administration's trade approaches in order to assess whether the precedent trade trajectory is likely to continue, or there is hope of reviving the US commitment to the rule-based multilateral trading system. The book's goal consists in distilling from current legal events the reasoning that might help the next generations in obtaining what the world needs most. These are a conscious and voluntary return to multilateralism, the search of new forms of effective global cooperation, better trade policies, a more equitable globalization, sound legal arguments, and solid economic reasons to combat rising nationalisms. If enacted, these elements hopefully would contribute to defeat new risks of political conflicts and long-lasting "trade wars". The book will be helpful to students and scholars in international and trade law, political science, and also professionals working in international and EU institutions.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword to US Trade Policy, China, and the World Trade Organization
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 The US Trade Policy Straddling Two Presidencies
- 2 The Recent Shift in the American Trade Policy Agenda Toward Unilateralism and US–China Rivalry
- 3 The Economic and Legal Reasons Underlying the US–China Rivalry and the Consequences for the WTO System
- 4 The Challenges for the Multilateral Trading System and for the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism
- 5 The Controversial Legal Characterization of US Section 232 Actions as National Security Measures
- Concluding Remarks: Economic Nationalisms versus the Multilateral Trading System
- Index