The WTO dispute settlement body?s decisions provide an opportunity to bring to light the difficulties reconciling the market principles and non trade values in international trade law. The first two decisions, which involve the SPS Agreement, and also the GATT Agreement, deal respectively with...

<marquage typemarq="italique"/> Umpteenth and ultimate ( ?) decision in the Hormones case : the Appellate Body refuses to put an end to retaliatory measures practiced by USA and Canada against EC, which, on grounds of the protection of public health, continue to refuse access to their market for meat and meat products from...

The purpose of this review is to highlight those among the numerous decisions rendered by the Dispute Settlement Body in 2006/2007, which seem to us to be especially interesting in that they allow to draw more general lessons about the orientation of international trade law under WTO rules....

In respect with the guiding principle of this chronicle to estimate connections between liberalization of international trade and non-trade values, this new edition illustrates new conflicts of values. This almost double year of awards of the Dispute Settlement Body is characterized by the focus...

<marquage typemarq="italique"/> Further to our previous reports, this year?s dispute cases at the WTO Dispute Settlement Body permit us to observe and to try to estimate connections between liberalization of international trade and non-trade values. Non-trade values or economic interests ? Complainants who refer to such...