The mushrooming of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in recent years has led to a significant increase in the supply of attractive incentives for investors looking for opportunities abroad. SEZs are self-contained regimes, inextricably associated with investment promotion policies and domestic...

This short paper examines the recent WTO Panel Report in a dispute brought by the US against a series of Chinese measures imposed on suppliers of electronic payment services (EPS). Such measures amounted to a discriminatory treatment in favour of the Chinese EPS supplier, China UnionPay Co.,...