International trade law is the tool used by the nation's government for taking corrective actions against trade. International trade law focuses on applying domestic rules to international trade rules and applying treaty-based international trade law governing trade.
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1.0. Teaching Learning Methodology:
Lecture Method
Discussion Method
Presentation/Case analysis
Court Room Exercise
Problem Method
Course Contents:
MODULE-1: History and Development of WTO
Brief history of GATT/WTO
Institutional Structure of WTO
Membership, Accession and Withdrawal
Decision making process
MODULE -2: Sources of law
The traditional sources analogy, International agreements, Customary International law,
General Principles of law and judicial decisions.
Covered Agreements, Vienna Convention on law of Treaties
Travaux preparatoires
MODULE -3: Dispute Settlement
Introduction to WTO dispute settlement
Institutions
Types of Complaints
Dispute resolution Procedure
LAW- International Trade Law L T P C
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Pre-Requisites//Exposure International law
Co-requisites
Semester VIII
Programme B.A.LL.B.(H.)
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MODULE -4: Enforcement of WTO obligations
Compliance
Compensation
Retaliation
MODULE -5: Most Favoured Nations Clause
Meaning of MFN
Like products
Rule of origin
Exceptions to MFN clause
MODULE 6: National Treatment
Meaning of NT
Like product
State trading monopolies
Exception to NT
MODULE -5: Tariff, Quotas and Other barriers to market access
Tariff, nature of tariff, welfare effects of tariff, tariff modifications
Quotas, nature of quota, welfare effects of quota, prohibition on quota and other measures
that restrain trade, exception to the prohibition of quota and other measures.
Technical barriers to trade; sanitary and phytosanitary measures
MODULE 6- Developing Countries and WTO
Meaning of developing countries, World Bank classification, Least developed Countries
by UN.
Provisions for Developing countries and LDC in WTO
Enabling clause
Special and Differential treatment
Technical assistance
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Legal assistance
Transitional time period
Waivers
Critique of the effectiveness of the measures for developing and LDCs
MODULE-6: Environment Protection and Trade
International trade and Environment
The Environment impact of Trade
The Tuna Dolphin case
EC Beef hormones case
Shrimp turtle case
Trade and environment : GATT/WTO rules: Art XX
Agreement on SPS
MODULE 7: Brief understanding of Major International Agreements
Agreement on Agriculture
Anti dumping Agreement
Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement
The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (the "SPS
Agreement")
The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
Cases
India – Measures Affecting the Automotive Sector case, Complaint by US & EU against India,
European Communities – Measures Prohibiting the Importation and Marketing of Seal
Products, Australia-Salmon, Brazil-Tyres, Canada-Aircraft, Canada-Dairy, Canada-Autos,
Canada Lumber, Canada-Periodicals, Dram Chips Case, EC-Asbestos, EC-Bananas, EC-Bed
Linen, EC-Hormones, EC-Sardines, EC-Tariff Preferences, Guatemala-Cement, Japan-
Alcohol, Korea-Beef, India-Quantitative Restrictions, Thailand-Cigarettes, Thailand-H Beans,
TunaDolphin (1991), Tuna-Dolphin (1994), Turkey-Textiles, US-FSC, US-Gambling
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Services, US-Gasoline, US-Hot Rolled Steel from Japan, US-Shrimp, US-Soft Lumber, US-
Subsidies on Up Land Cotton, US-Wool shirts, Japan Alcoholic beverages case
Reading materials
Mitsuo Matsushita, Thomas J. Schoenbaum and Petros C. Mavroidis, The World Trade
Organization: Law, Practice and Policy (Oxford University Press:2006).
Michael Trebilcock, Robert Howse, Antonia Eliason, The Regulation of International Trade, 4th
edition (Routledge:2012)
Pitroda, S. S. (1995). From GATT to WTO: The Institutionalization of World Trade. Harvard
International Review, 17(2), 46–67.
Qureshi, A. H. (2003). Participation of Developing Countries in the WTO Dispute Settlement
System. Journal of African Law, 47(2), 174–198.
MADAAN, D. K. (2000). WTO AND THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. India Quarterly,
56(3/4), 53–60.
SOUKAR, L. (2019). Natural Resources Endowment and WTO. Journal of Economic Integration,
34(3), 546–589.
Horlick, Gary N. “The WTO and Developing Countries.” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting
(American Society of International Law) 100 (2006): 220–23.
Charnovitz, S. (1998). Environment and Health Under WTO Dispute Settlement. The International
Lawyer, 32(3), 901–921.
Chimni, B. S. (2000). WTO and Environment: Shrimp-Turtle and EC-Hormones Cases. Economic
and Political Weekly, 35(20), 1752–1761.
Chimni, B. S. (2002). WTO and Environment: Legitimisation of Unilateral Trade Sanctions.
Economic and Political Weekly, 37(2), 133–139.
Schoenbaum, T. J. (1997). International Trade and Protection of the Environment: The Continuing
Search for Reconciliation. The American Journal of International Law, 91(2), 268–313.
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Ravindra Pratap. (2003). WTO and Rules of Origin: Issues for India. Economic and Political
Weekly, 38(33), 3454–3456.
Saggi, K., & Sengul, F. (2009). On the Emergence of an MFN Club: Equal Treatment in an
Unequal World. The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d’Economique, 42(1),
267–299.