Addressing the issue of trade in services and public health in the case of tobacco: Are the FCTC restrictions on tobacco advertising inconsistent with the GATS?

Journal of World Investment and Trade

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 545-561

  Lin, Tsai Yu ^a,b,c  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861016156     PISSN: 16607112     EISSN: 22119000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/221190006X00315     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Rank J. Chaloupka, Curbinq the Epidemic, Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control (World Bank, 1999); available at: Wwwl.worldbank.org/tobacco/reports.htm, .
2. Fact Slveet; available at: Www.fctc.org/tobtopics/topics.phpnum=20.
3. Alyssa Woo, Health Versus Trade: T7te Future of the Wxo's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, 35 Vand. J. Transnat'1 L. p. 1738.
4. WHO, The WHO Framework Convention on 7obacco Control: Four years in the making; available at: Www.who.int/features/2003/08/en.
5. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, A Primer, available at: Www.fctc.org/tobtopics/topics.phpnum=9.
6. Joost Pauwelyn, Rien ne Va Plus Distinguislring domestic regulation from market access in G a i t and G.1TS, 4(2) World Trade Review 131-170 (July 2005), pp. 136-137.
7. Scott Sinclair and Jim Grieshaber-Otto, Pacing the Facts, A Guide to the Gals Debate (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2002), pp. 52-53.
8. Jim Grieshaber-Otto and Noel Schacter, The GAls: Impacts of the intemational "services" treaty on health-based alcohol regulation; available at: Web.archive.org/web/20020107131706http://www.stakes.fi/nat/nat01/nr.3/english/gats.htm.
9. Markus Krajewski, National Requlation and Trade Liberalization in Servires, 7he Legal Impact of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GAn:s) on National Regulatory Autonomy (Kluwer Law International, 2003), p. 91.
10. Joel P. Trachtman, Current Developments-Uecisions of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization; available at:, www.ejil.org/joiirnal/curdevs/AB.html#TopOfPage, .
11. S.-Gambli, Report of the Panel, WT/DS285/R, para. 6.355; Appellate Body Report, supra, footnote 17, para. 252.
12. Ellen Gould, Trade Treaties and Alcohol Advertising Policy, Journal of Public Health Policy 26 (2005), 359-376, at 366-367.