International trade and commerce

Peter Ashford provides a practical guide to the most common feature of international arbitration around the world.

With the growing importance of emerging markets the focus of analysts has begun to concentrate on the contribution of Latin America and the Middle East to the global economy, and the relations between these two regions.

This thoroughly revised second edition of Applied International Tradepresents the leading theoretical and applied methods used in the fieldof international trade.

This textbook deals with the progressive global dissolution of political, economic, and social boundaries, which has significant implications for labor markets, the international division of labor, social security, and income distribution.

While international investment law is one of the most dynamic and thriving fields of international law, it is increasingly criticized for failing to strike a fair balance between private property rights and the public interest.

This fully updated edition of the market-leading textbook is required reading for World Trade Organization law students and practitioners.

There are no miracles in Latin America, says international consultant Louis Nevaer-only opportunities-and with economic integration well underway, these opportunities are more promising than ever for U.

International economic law, with its traditional focus on large multinational enterprises, is only slowly waking up to the new reality of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), entering the global marketplace.

Since the turn of the century bilateral trade between China and Latin America has increased by more than a factor of ten.

This book explains the definition, concepts, practices and procedures of Free Zone operations; how they are created, how they operate, and their benefits to the global and national economy.

As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew MarrOne of the Financial Times' best books of 2021In this extraordinary journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy meets the people on the front lines of the climate crisis, showing how the struggle to respond is already reshaping the modern world - shattering communities, shaking up global business, and propelling a groundbreaking wave of cutting-edge innovation.

This book expounds trade theory emphasizing that a trading equilibrium is general rather than partial.

Published for the Private Planning Association of Canada as part of the Canada in the Atlantic Economy series, this book covers impact of trade liberalization on Canadian agriculture, prospects for trade liberalization in agriculture, as well as trade liberalization and the Canadian pulp and paper industry and trade liberalization and the Canadian furniture industry.

This edited volume documents the intellectual influence of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) through its flagship publication, the World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) on its 70th Anniversary.

The book argues that international investment law is a structured body of law based on uniform principles of investment protection.

Since late 2008, relations between the United States and South Korea have been arguably at their best state in decades.

This book brings together selected papers from the The Vietnam-EU Economic and Trade Forum 2023 jointly organized by the VNU University of Economics and Business (UEB, Vietnam) and Krakow University of Economics (Poland).

Contains the complete and official texts of the WTO Agreements, collated in one volume.

Procedural issues are an area of increasing complexity and concern in modern investment arbitration, and one in which very little guidance currently exists.

With the negotiation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), the policies affecting access to, and conditions of competition in, service markets are today firmly rooted in the multilateral trading system.

This volume considers how different jurisdictions are integrated economically whilst at the same time maintaining regulatory pluralism and diversity.

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Central American countries have long defined health as a human right.

The existing literature on the substantive and procedural aspects of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) relies heavily on investment treaty arbitration decisions as a source of law.

This book assesses stability guarantees through the lens of the legitimate expectations principle to offer a new perspective on the stability concept in international energy investments.

Free Trade provides a historical framework for ongoing discussion of economic and environmental issues.

This book provides a detailed study of practices of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (Shanghai FTZ henceforth).

Much has been written about the trilateral relationship between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and the free trade agreements that this relationship has spawned.

Logistics are a critical element for country competitiveness and economic performance, including poverty reduction.

This book brings together and interprets the information relating to Canada's contacts with Asiatic countries since the beginning of the Second World War.

This book explores financial trends in the age of financial globalization and explores the changing roles within the global financial industry.

An examination of twenty-one countries'' experiences of domestic judicial review being used to challenge trade remedy determinations.

This book examines the nature of the international arms trade and the adjustment of the defense industries in the United States and Russia to the post-cold war world.

This book explains the history of the gravity model of international trade and takes stock of recent methodological and theoretical advances.

How globalized information networks can be used for strategic advantageUntil recently, globalization was viewed, on balance, as an inherently good thing that would benefit people and societies nearly everywhere.

A guide to how the World Trade Organization interprets the rules and solutions to disputes between its Members.

This book centers on the political economy behind the internationalization of Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs).

Patents and other intellectual property (IP) rights are increasingly part of cross-border trade in their own rights.

In recent decades, study of the ancient Egyptian natural world and its classification has adopted innovative approaches involving new technologies of analysis and a multidisciplinary general view.

A critical assessment of trade retaliation in the WTO by academics, diplomats and practitioners involved in such actions.

Contains the complete and official texts of the WTO Agreements, collated in one volume.

The 'Belt and Road' initiative announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013 aims at reviving the ancient trade routes connecting China to Europe and Africa: the '21st Century Maritime Silk Road' and the inland 'Silk Road Economic Belt'.