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Title

The Uruguay Round results : an European lawyers' perspective / Jacques H.J. Bourgeois, Frédérique Berrod & Eric Gippini Fournier, eds.

Publication

Bruxelles : European Interuniversity Press, [1995]

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Additional Authors

• Bourgeois, J. H. J.
• Berrod, Frédérique
• Gippini Fournier, Eric
• Bourgeois, Jacques H. J., 1936-
• College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium)

Description

541 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"More prolonged than any former cycles of multilateral trade negotiations, the Uruguay Round will be remembered as the starting point of a new world trading environment. The agreements signed in Marrakesh in 1994 herald a second generation trade discipline, which follows a first generation dominated by bilateralism, and precedes a third generation where environmental and labour problems are issues which may figure on the multilateral trade negotiation scene. The creation of the World Trade Organisation, the concept of a single undertaking and the new General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) are only some of the more salient features of a myriad of improvements and developments encompassing all areas of international trade. The WTO agreement has been described as a democratic charter for world trade. The European Union, as a leading partner in a global economy, was one of the most interested parties in securing the successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round. Paradoxically, high unemployment and slow growth caused the spectre of protectionism to loom throughout the negotiation process, yet those factors should have spurred the movement towards trade liberalisation. The reflections contained in this book are the result of an international conference held at the College of Europe, Bruges, in November 1994. Academics, trade officials and private practitioners analyse the implications of the Uruguay Round Agreements not only from a legal perspective, but also from an economic, political and social perspective. Detailed legal analysis, together with short comments and prospective insights, are all present in the contributions."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Bruges conferences ; n.s., no 8

Uniform Title

Conférences de Bruges n.s., no 8.

Subject

• Uruguay Round (1987-1994) > Congresses
• Free trade > Europe > Congresses
• European Union countries > Commercial policy > Congresses
• Europe > Commercial policy > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Papers from a conference held Nov. 18-19, 1994.
• "College of Europe."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 529-541).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The Uruguay Round results from a European lawyers' perspective : an introduction / Jacques H.J. Bourgeois -- The common institutional framework of the new world trade system / Frédérique Berrod and Eric Gippini Fournier -- The significance of the Uruguay Round / Hugo Paemen -- The economic significance of the Round / Jacques Pelkmans -- Uruguay Round comments : a view from UNICE / Jacques Leflon -- The Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization / Frieder Roessler -- The new WTO Dispute Settlement System : the impact on the Community / Pieter-Jan Kuyper -- The Marrakesh DSU and its implications on the international and European level / Paolo Mengozzi -- The institutions of the world trade law after the WTO confronted with some of the legacies of the past / Hjalte Rasmussen -- The evolution of the rules affecting trade in goods : an introductory note / Frédérique Berrod -- The new Anti-Dumping Code through its negotiating history / Mark Koulen --^
• The 1994 Anti-Dumping Code and the new EC Anti-Dumping Regulation / Ivo Van Bael -- Subsidies and countervailing measures after the Uruguay Round : an overview / Gérard Depayre -- Impact of the new rules on subsidies and countervailing measures / Christopher Norall -- The Agreement on Safeguards / Thiébaut Flory -- Voluntary export restraints and the GATT 1994 Agreement on Safeguards / Marco C.E.J. Bronckers -- The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade / Edmond L.M. Völker -- The Agreement on the Technical Barriers to Trade in the context of the trade and environment discussion / Reinhard Quick -- GATT Agreement on Rules of Origin : its purpose and implications from a European Community perspective / Wim Keijzer -- Rules of origin in the future : selected issues / Edwin Vermulst -- GATS. Introductory note / Eric Gippini Fournier -- The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Liberalisation concepts, structures and modalities / Julian Arkell --^
• Some comments on GATS / Tania Friederichs -- The Uruguay Round and financial services / Ian Wilkinson -- Some remarks on the financial services : evaluation and perspective / Giorgio Sacerdoti -- The audiovisual sector / Karl F. Falkenberg -- Unresolved issues in the audiovisual sector and the US/EC conflict / Eric Morgan de Rivery -- Foreign direct investment / Ralf Scheibach -- The WTO and monetary policy / Jacques Steenbergen -- The Uruguay Round negotiations confronted by the monetary phenomenon / Dominique Carreau -- Report on Committee I (Trade in Goods) / Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann -- Report on Committee II (Trade in Services) / Paul Demaret -- The implementation of the Uruguay Round by the EC / Christiaan W.A. Timmermans -- Closing Address / Willy De Clercq.

ISBN

9052015090

OCLC

• 37983912
• SCSB-10052316

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library