The challenge of regionalization and preferential relations in world trade law and policy

European Foreign Affairs Review

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 149-167

  Cottier, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 3142522066     PISSN: 13846299     EISSN: 18758223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.54648/eerr1996011     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (27)

1. See WTO, Regionalism and the World Trading System 25, 77-88 (1995) (hereinafter WTO Report); for a useful summary of this report see also 3 WTO Focus (1995) 6-11.
2. For a list of notified preferential trade agreements see also GATT, Guide to GATT Law and Practice: Analytical Index, Art. XXIV at 797-806 (6th edn, 1994).
3. For the agreement with Chile (Acuerdo de Complementation Economica Mercosur-Chile), signed 25 June 1996
4. see Neue Zürcher Zeitung, No. 127, 27 June 1996 at 21 cols. 3 and 4.
5. See F. H. Abbott, Law and Policy of Regional Integration: The NAFTA and Western Hemispheric Integration in the World Trade Organization (Kluwer Law and Taxation, Cambridge, MA 1995) 10.
6. Transatlantic Business Dialogue: Overall Conclusions, 11 November 1995; European Commission, Communication from the Commission to the Council: Europe and the US: The Way Forward, 26 July 1995, COM (95) 411 final;
7. European Commission, The New Transatlantic Agenda, Memo/95/163 (30 November 1995) European Commission, DGI, 7 EU-US Relations: Progress Report on EU/US Relations (7 December 1995);
8. on US-European relations see generally J. Peterson, Europe and America: The Prospects for Partnerships (2nd edn, Routledge, London/New York 1996).
9. See Bull. EC 1/2-1996 point 1.4.137. Scientific and technological cooperation has been reinforced, Agreement for Scientific and Technological Cooperation between the European Community and Canada, OJ 1996 L74/26.
10. See e.g. G. Frost, New Life for the Atlantic Relationship, Pfizer Forum Europe, advertisement, printed in The Economist, 18 May 1996, at 29.
11. for comments e.g. 'The first Asia-Europe Meeting' 4 The AFTA Monitor (1996);
12. 'Friends apart' The Economist, 9 March 1996, at 65;
13. P. Motagon and T. Bardacke, 'Door open to widen Europe Asia links' Financial Times, 26 February 1996; 'Let's make a deal' Asiaweek, 15 March 1996, at 26/27.
14. See H. G. Preusse, 'Regional integration in the nineties' 28/4 Journal of World Trade Law (1994) 147-164.
15. K. Anderson and R. Blackhurst (eds.), Regional Integration and the Global Trading System (Harvester Wheatsheaf, New York 1993).
16. K. U. Schanz, 'Der Marktzugang im WTO-Welthandelssystem' in T. Cottier (ed.), GATT - Uruguay Round: Nine Papers (Staempfli and Cie, Berne 1995) 111.
17. See Agreement on Agriculture, Art. 4, reprinted in WTO Secretariat (ed.), The Results of the
18. Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, the Legal Texts (1996), 39;
19. J. F. Dennin (ed.), Law and Practice of the World Trade Organization (Oceana Publications Ltd, New York 1996) 27.
20. see T. Cottier, 'Constitutional trade regulation in national and international law: structure-substance pairings in the EFTA experience' in M. Hilf and E. U. Petersmann (eds.), National Constitutions and International Economic Law (Kluwer Law and Taxation, Deventer 1993) 409-442.
21. see M. Maresceau and E. Montaguti, 'The relation between the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe: a legal appraisal' 32 CMLRev. (1995) 1327.
22. See J. Viner, The Customs Union Issue (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York 1950);
23. T. N. Srinivisan, J. Whalley and I. Woodton, 'Measuring the effects of regionalism on trade and welfare' in Anderson and Blackhurst, op. cit., 52, 54.
24. For a comprehensive analysis see M. Villa, La réglementation de l'origine des marchandises, Doctoral thesis, University of Lausanne, 1995.
25. 'Differential and more favourable treatment reciprocity and fuller participation of developing countries', Decision of 28 November 1979 (L/4903) (Enabling Clause), reprinted in GATT: The Texts of the Tokyo Round Agreements 191/191 (1986). Since 1989, eleven preferential agreements among developing countries were notified under this clause: see WTO, op. cit., 18/19, 88/89.
26. See EEC Import Regime for Bananas, Report of the Panel, 11 February 1994, at para. 158, DS38/R (not adopted).
27. see M. C. E. J. Bronckers, 'Private participation in the enforcement of WTO law: the new EC trade barrier regulation' 33 CMLRev. (1996) 299.