The World Trade Organization's report on the EU's moratorium on biotech products: The wisdom of the US challenge to the EU in the WTO

Global Environmental Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-52

  Lieberman, Sarah ^b   Gray, Tim ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN UNION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39049156238     PISSN: 15263800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/glep.2008.8.1.33     Document Type: Article

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