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Trade Remedy Laws: The Trojan Horse in the Multilateral Trading System

Trade Remedy Laws: The Trojan Horse in the Multilateral Trading System

Author: Sancho. María Moreno
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
ISBN: 9789403539294
Published In: October 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Trade Remedy Laws: The Trojan Horse in the Multilateral Trading System is a book providing a groundbreaking analysis and an in-depth overview of the origins of the current ‘trade war’ and proposes a path to strengthen the multilateral trading system with rules based on welfare economics and legal principles, as well as their multilateral enforcement. An unprecedented succession of trade-restrictive measures is currently propelling the highest rise in protectionism in the history of the multilateral trading system.

What’s in this book:

Combining empirical, historical, and exegetical research methods, the author shows that trade remedies – anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard measures – rather than facilitating trade liberalization, undermine the multilateral trading system by protecting certain producers to the detriment of importers, consumers and eventually the environment. She explores and analyses:

trade-restrictive measures imposed at the origins of the trade war, including trade remedies, national security and tit-for-tat tariffs measures
the origins of trade remedy laws and their incorporation into the multilateral trading system, and
the normative evolution of multilateral trade remedy laws and subsidy disciplines

Sources include the documents from multilateral conferences conducted under the auspices of the League of Nations and the United Nations, and the agreements resulting from multilateral trade negotiations, such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the International Trade Organization (ITO) Charter and the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, Anti-dumping and Safeguards.

How this will help you:

The collapse of the multilateral trading system has affected international trade relations and global value chains by creating legal uncertainty and raising costs for exporters, importers and ultimately consumers. This book proposes a multilateral solution aimed at preventing restraints of trade and competition while enhancing global welfare, through the abolition of trade remedy laws, the amendment of subsidy disciplines, the incorporation of an agreement on trade-restrictive practices and competition, and the inclusion of environmental and labour standards within the multilateral trading system. It will be essential reading for corporate counsel, national trade representatives, all stakeholders in the promotion of international trade and academics with an interest in the subject.

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

PART I. The Outbreak of the US–China Trade War: Trade Remedy Laws, National Security and Tit-for-Tat Tariff Measures

CHAPTER 1. Trade Remedies by the United States

CHAPTER 2. National Security

CHAPTER 3. US–China Tit-for-Tat Tariff Measures

PART II. History of Multilateral Trade Remedy Laws

CHAPTER 4. Origins of Trade Remedy Laws

CHAPTER 5. Preparatory Work of the GATT and ITO Charter, 1945-1948

CHAPTER 6. Trade Remedy Laws Through Main GATT Negotiations Rounds, 1948-1994

PART III. Trade Remedy Laws, Subsidies and Competition in the XXI Century