The special safeguard fiasco in the WTO: The perils of inadequate analysis and negotiation

World Trade Review

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 517-544

  Wolfe, Robert ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 80052361220     PISSN: 14747456     EISSN: 14753138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1474745609990048     Document Type: Review

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