The paper aims at assessing and analyzing elements of due diligence in existing international trade agreements. Relevant elements include obligations to cooperate, to negotiate in good faith, to notify measures which could be harmful to other countries, to take the effects of measures on other...

This article aims to map out dispute settlement mechanisms for competition law provisions in Free Trade Agreements. After presenting the poor state of existing dispute settlement mechanisms for competition policy in FTAs, this article explains why a lack of such specific dispute resolution for...

When China acceded to the World Trade Organization in 2001, pundits were enthusiastic about the prospect that China’s World Trade Organization membership would boost international trade, encourage China’s restructuring toward a market economy, discipline the domestic legal system, and...

The amendment to the US countervailing duties (CVDs) regulations in 2020 enabled the US government to impose CVDs against currency manipulation, and the first two cases under the new rule are being investigated. Because of the potential wide usage and uncertainty in the lawfulness of imposing...

This article aims to clarify three long-standing puzzles concerning the place of private standards in the World Trade Organization (WTO) through the lens of FSC labelling. The first question is whether the FSC label falls within the regulatory scope of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to...

The recent WTO dispute case, Korea – Import Bans, and Testing and Certification Requirements for Radionuclides (Korea – Radionuclides), illustrates complex legal issues and significant political implications associated with the regulatory autonomy of a sovereign country under the WTO...

COVID-19 has resulted in extraordinarily challenging times. The outbreak has disrupted the lives of people and is casting a heavy impact on the economies around the world by interrupting business operations and commercial activities. Whilst everyone is busy identifying various strategies from...