This book emerged from a series of lectures given over the last ten years in WTO law, EC and Swiss external relations law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Berne. The book deals in an integrated manner with global law, European and Swiss law relevant under the WTO. The book offers introductory comments, cases and texts from which scholars, practitioners, teachers and students may choose in exploring the framework and details of international trade regulation. While some will focus mainly on the WTO, others will include EC law. The Swiss domestic level will be of interest to those focussing on particular problems of national law. Relevant texts (including those in German and French), cases and materials available up to August 2004 were considered. Permission to reproduce has been generously granted either by the authors themselves or by the publishers who originally printed the materials. The excerpts are consistently introduced indicating the exact source of first publication. We have eliminated almost all footnotes from the texts, except where retained in brackets. References to additional publications can be found throughout the book under the heading of 'further reading', the first one containing general works on WTO law and policy.
Contents in Brief
Part One: Foundations of Int'l Trade Regulation
I. Scope and Evolution
II. Structure and Operation of the WTO
III. Domestic Impact of WTO Law
IV. External Trade Regulation in the EC
V. External Trade Regulation in Switzerland
VI. Switzerland and European Integration
Part Two Constitutional Principles of the WTO
VII. Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment
VIII . National Treatment
IX . Explicit Protection of Other Legitimate Policy Goals
X . Relationship between the WTO and Other Areas of Public International Law
XI. The Rule of Law
XII. Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries
Part Three Regulation of Market Access
XIII. Market Access and Conditions of Compet'n: Survey
XIV The Law and Policy of Tariffs
XV. Quantitative Import and Export Restrictions
XVI. Sectoral Agreements
XVII . Technical Barriers to Trade
XVIII. Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
Part Four Regulation of Conditions of Competition
