EC–Seal Products: The Tension between Public Morals and International Trade Agreements

C the Design of International Trade Agreements

In Section B we discussed a range of reasons why nations may share an interest in cooperating with one another in trade matters. In this section we extend the analysis to examine fundamental issues of treaty design, focusing on two main questions. First, what are the core rules that any good trade agreement must contain so as to reap the envisaged benefits from cooperation? Second, how does the...

The Tension between Transparency and Confidentiality in International Arbitrations

The present research study intends to investigate the concepts of transparency, confidentiality and privacy within the scope of Investor-State Arbitration and International Commercial Arbitration.Transparency, confidentiality and privacy are the main pillars of international arbitration which have a close relationship together, however in some cases they are in a controversial situation. The te...

Free Trade and the Protection of Public Morals: An Analysis of the Newly Emerging Public Morals Clause Doctrine

Issues of Fairness in International Trade Agreements

In this paper, we first describe the characteristics of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that are the basis of the framework of the multilateral trading system. We then provide an overview of concepts of fairness in trade agreements. Thereafter, we offer a critique of the efficiency criterion in assessing multilateral trade agreements, taking issue with T.N. Srinivasan’s (2006) analysis and t...

EBLIDA: Manifesto on international trade agreements

The European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) is an independent, non-governmental and non-commercial umbrella association of national library, information, documentation and archive associations and organisations in Europe. EBLIDA concentrates on the subjects of copyright, culture, telematics, Central and Eastern Europe, matters related to the information s...