The volume presents the results of a symposium held at Bocconi University in October 2015, on the occasion of the Universal Exposition of Milan “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”, and it brings together the inter-disciplinary viewpoints of different academics and practitioners that in...

Section 15 of China's Protocol of Accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) allows importing WTO members to determine, under their national law, whether China is considered to be a market economy for the purpose of price comparability and of calculating dumping margins. Some provisions of...

Section 15 of China's Protocol of Accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) allows importing WTO members to determine, under their national law, whether China is considered to be a market economy for the purpose of price comparability and of calculating dumping margins. Some provisions of...

The protection of European Geographical Indications has been a point of conflict between the European Union and the United States for many years. The essential difference is in how GIs should be protected, if they should be protected at all. The US considers that they can be protected as a...

Geographical Indications present significant opportunities for differentiating products or services that are uniquely related to their geographic origin. While they can offer many positive economic, social, cultural, and even environmental benefits, they can also be problematic and therefore...

The report provides elements of analyses of the 2008 US Farm Bill, with comparisons of the relevant provisions of the EU Common Agricultural Policy. The focus is on the economic analyses of the consequences of the changes in the US agricultural policy brought about by the new legislation, the...

Geographical Indications present significant opportunities for differentiating products or services that are uniquely related to their geographic origin. While they can offer many positive economic, social, cultural, and even environmental benefits, they can also be problematic and therefore...

The mutually satisfactory temporary arrangement reached between the EC and the US in the WTO US - Copyright dispute raises a number of legal issues in international, WTO and EC law as well as systemic considerations for the WTO dispute settlement system. It is the first time that monetary...