The EU, the WTO and the NAFTA Towards a Common Law of International Trade?

by Weiler, J. H. H.

• ISBN13: 9780198298748
• ISBN10: 0198298749
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume, built on a recent series of courses at the Academy of European Law in Florence, addresses the overlapping regulatory trade regimes of the WTO, EU, and NAFTA. The various contributions deal with discrete areas of the international trading system. The coexistence of regimes, often governing simultaneously complex transnational transactions, is the focus of the volume.

Table of Contents

Table of Cases	vii
Table of Treaties and Legislation	xiii
Table of Abbreviations	xix
Cain and Abel---Convergence and Divergence in International Trade Law	1	(4)
J. H. H. Weiler
EC External Commercial Policy after Amsterdam: Authority and Interpreation within Interconnected Legal Orders	5	(30)
Marise Cremona
Introduction	5	(4)
The Legislative History of Article 133 prior to Amsterdam Opinion 1/94 on the WTO Agreement and the Scope of Article 133	9	(4)
The Pre-Amsterdam Debate over External Economic Policy	13	(5)
The Amsterdam Amendment and Inter-institutional Balance	18	(3)
The Amsterdam Amendment and Exclusivity	21	(4)
Mixed Agreements and Judicial Exclusivity	25	(7)
Conclusion	32	(3)
Adjudicative Legitimacy and Treaty Interpretation in International Trade Law: The Early Years of WTO Jurisprudence	35	(36)
Robert Howse
Introduction	35	(7)
Fair Procedures	42	(9)
Coherence and Integrity in Legal Interpretation	51	(11)
Institutional Sensitivity	62	(6)
Conclusion	68	(3)
The European Court of Justice and the WTO: Problems and Challenges	71	(54)
Jacques H. J. Bourgeois
Introduction	71	(1)
The Status of the EC in the WTO	71	(3)
Jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Communities	74	(16)
The Status of International Agreements in EC Law	90	(13)
The Status of the GATT and the WTO Agreement in EC Law	103	(18)
Some Conclusions	121	(4)
On Kith and Kine (and Crustaceans): Trade and Environment in the EU and WTO	125	(44)
Joanne Scott
Introduction	125	(1)
Compassion in World Farming and Calves in Crates	126	(18)
Hormones in Beef	144	(18)
Trade and Environment in the EU and WTO: Conclusions	162	(7)
The North American Integration Regime and its Implications for the World Trading System	169	(32)
Frederick M. Abbott
The Nafta Mutation of the EC Model Revisited	170	(3)
The Nafta in the WTO System	173	(20)
The Nafta and the Political Economy of Regionalism	193	(5)
The Nafta and the WTO System	198	(3)
Epilogue: Towards a Common Law of International Trade	201	(32)
J. H. H. Weiler
Prologue	201	(3)
The Foundational Period	204	(14)
The Second Generation	218	(5)
The Third Geneeration	223	(2)
The Fourth Generation	225	(4)
The Fifth Generation	229	(4)
Index	233