Dieses Buch führt in die Grundlagen und Praxis von Handelsklauseln ein. Am Beispiel der Incoterms® 2020 zeigt es, wie Unternehmen ihre Verträge im globalen Handel mit der Wahl geeigneter Handelsklauseln geschickt gestalten können. Unterschiedliche Gepflogenheiten und Missverständnisse...

The Ministry of Trade (MoT) of Republic of Indonesia has requested the support of the World Bank in devising new and improve trade related policies for the benefit of the Indonesian economy. The MoT - with the help of the World Bank - has identified a number of areas where there is a needto fill...

A fundamental question in contracts that involve the delivery of merchandise is the moment at which the risks inherent to it are transferred. In the international system, business customs consecrated standardized clauses by means of which the contracting parties define the time of that transfer....

The primary objective of most trade agreements is to restrain members' use of trade policies for protectionist purposes. But it would be pointless to restrict the application of border instruments without regulating the possible use of domestic policies for protectionist purpose. To this end,...

his article addresses the phenomenon of document discrepancies in international trade financing as a significant worldwide issue resulting in unnecessary delays, refused payments, and financial loss when banks discover discrepancies in required trade finance documents presented under the...

Introduction / Simon Lester and Bryan Mercurio -- The economics of PTAs / Pravin Krishna -- Political economy of PTAs / Olivier Cattaneo -- Bilateral versus plurilateral PTAs / David Evans -- Legal Requirements for PTAs under the WTO / Andrew D. Mitchell and Nicolas J.S. Lockhart -- PTAs and...

The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations was suspended for almost six months in 2006. The purpose of this paper is to ask what scholars can learn about the political economy of reciprocal trade liberalisation from this suspension. Specifically, four potential explanations for this...

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the use of safeguards in a trade agreement. It then analyzes the available data on the use of safeguards by WTO members to examine two hypotheses in the economics literature, that safeguards improve welfare by facilitating tariff...

"This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the use of safeguards in a trade agreement. It then analyzes the available data on the use of safeguards by WTO members to examine two hypotheses in the economics literature, that safeguards improve welfare by facilitating tariff...

This volume of contributions from some of the world's best-known international trade economists explores and analyzes the various aspects of commercial policy in a way that standard texts in international economics do not.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 1 Major Issues in Global Supply Chain Management Today -- Section One: The Global Supply Chain -- 2 Purchasing Management Skill Sets in Foreign Markets -- 3 Freight, Logistics, and Specialized Transportation Issues for Import/Export...

The rise of private regulation in the world economy -- Private nonmarket rule-making in context : a typology of global regulation -- Institutional complementarity theory -- Private regulators in global financial markets : institutional structure and complementarity in accounting regulation --...

Introduction -- International sale of goods -- The sales contract -- Letters of credit -- Non-establishment forms of international business : agency and distributorships, technology transfer, contract manufacturing, and franchising -- Foreign direct investment -- Protecting intellectual property...