A Closer Look At WTO’s Third Pillar: How WTO Committees Influence Regional Trade Agreements by Devin McDaniels , Ana Cristina Molina & Erik N. Wijkström.

This paper illustrates how the work of World Trade Organization’s (WTO) standing bodies—its ‘Third Pillar’, as we will call it—is inspiring parties in regional trade agreements (RTA) negotiations and contributing to deeper integration. We focus on the work of the WTO technical barriers to trade (TBT) Committee and explore, as a case study, the extent to which the Committee’s decision on principles for development of international standards (the Six Principles) has shaped provisions in RTAs. This Decision, arguably the most important decision taken by the TBT Committee, is meant to clarify which international standards may be a relevant basis for TBT measures; an issue that has been left undefined under the WTO TBT Agreement. Our analysis covers 260 RTAs, and shows that one quarter of RTAs has sharpened and hardened the Committee’s decision by making it directly applicable to Parties (in RTAs) whereas under the WTO they are ‘merely’ recommendations. A small number of RTAs follow a different approach and explicitly name the sources of relevant international standards.

https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgy038

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Library acquisitions — September 2018

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Did you take advantage of any of the electronic resource trials this year? If you explored Oxford International Organizations, World Scientific Journals, HeinOnline’s World Constitutions Illustrated, Safari Online Learning Platform, Oxford Economics, Gale’s Environmental Studies and Policy Collection, or Brill’s Climate Change and Law Collection during the trial periods, we would appreciate your feedback! Please share your thoughts on this resource by emailing us at web.librarian@wto.org.

Covers	Title, Authors/Editor details, WTO catalogue records email request links	Previews
	Agreement on the European Economic Area : a commentary / edited by Finn Arnesen … [et al]. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927285 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2QgzroR
	Conflicting philosophies and international trade law : worldviews and the WTO / Michael Burkard. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927273 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2xSlOEK
	Environmental policy, non-product related process and production methods and the law of the World Trade Organization / Amber Rose Maggio. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927356 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2xXx5Uo
	Incorporar el comercio para lograr los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible / Organización Mundial del Comercio. Library has electronic version only. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927386 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Full text: http://bit.ly/2R6Lsyq
	L’intégration du commerce en vue de la réalisation des objectifs de développement durable / Organisation mondiale du commerce. Available in print and electronic formats. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927384 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Full text: http://bit.ly/2xSnePA
	International economics : theory and policy / Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld, Marc J. Melitz. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927326 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2R7M0UP
	International negotiation : process and strategies / Ho-Won Jeong. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927369 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2R9ytvE
	Les mécanismes de flexibilité dans le droit de l’OMC / Catherine Rosso. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927373 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2xZX0uq
	Mega-regional trade agreements / [edited by] Thilo Rensmann. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927361 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2Qab0cs
	Nontariff measures and international trade / [edited by] John Christopher Beghin. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927354 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2R1nO6t
	L’OMC et le contentieux fiscal des subventions à l’exportation / Karim Berthet. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927348 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2R1oqsN
	Regional economic integration and dispute settlement in East Asia : the evolving legal framework / Anna G. Tevini. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927281 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2N89Koh
	Trade in water under international law : bulk fresh water, irrigation subsidies and virtual water / Fitzgerald Temmerman. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927291 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2OoA82g

 

Library acquisitions — August 2018

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Did you take advantage of any of the electronic resource trials this year? If you explored Oxford International Organizations, World Scientific Journals, HeinOnline’s World Constitutions Illustrated, Safari Online Learning Platform, Oxford Economics, Gale’s Environmental Studies and Policy Collection, or Brill’s Climate Change and Law Collection during the trial periods, we would appreciate your feedback! Please share your thoughts on this resource by emailing us at web.librarian@wto.org.

Covers	Title, Authors/Editor details, WTO catalogue records email request links	Previews
	Competition policy for the new era : insights from the BRICS countries / edited by Tembinkosi Bonakele, Eleanor M Fox and Liberty Mncube. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927239 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview available: http://bit.ly/2LUbMI8
	Globalización y generación de riqueza : un mundo más próspero, más eficiente y más justo merced al comercio internacional y a la inversión extranjera directa / José-Ramón Ferrandis Muñoz ; presentación de Vicente Boceta ; prólogo de Fernando Eguidazu. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927150 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	Governing science and technology under the international economic order : regulatory divergence and convergence in the age of megaregionals / edited by Shin-Yi Peng, Han-Wei Liu, Ching-Fu Lin. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927251 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2Q2Ps2g
	Intellectual property and human development : current trends and future scenarios / edited by Tzen Wong, Graham Dutfield. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927336 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2PAoM7Z
	International organizations : politics, law, practice / Ian Hurd. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927344 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2CeJ8BX
	The law and economics of a sustainable energy trade agreement / edited by Gary C. Hufbauer, Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, and Richard Samans. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927247 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2LRiIpy
	The law of the international civil service : institutional law and practice in international organisations / Gerhard Ullrich. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927245 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2oJGDyd
	Ownership unbundling and related measures in the EU energy sector : foundations, the impact of WTO law and investment protection / Tilman Michael Dralle. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927259 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2PCa7tg
	Les pays ACP dans le commerce mondial / Aristide Foé. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927352 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2PXqkKt
	Putting consumers first : essays in honour of Pradeep Mehta / edited by Sanjaya Baru, with Abhishek Kumar. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927318 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	La reforma de la gobernanza pesquera internacional y europea / [edited by] Jorge Pueyo Losa, Julio Jorge Urbina. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927255 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	The use of alternative benchmarks in anti-subsidy law : a study on the WTO, the EU and China / Sophia Müller. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927263 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2LTY1JJ
	A WTO agreement on trade facilitation : can it really facilitate trade? / Mena Hassan. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927322 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable

 

Exclusionary Rules of Origin of mega-RTAs under WTO law : mega-RTA ‘fracturung’ its overlapping RTA by Jong Bum Kim.

A mega-RTA such as the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) or the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) may overlap another RTA, with the result that some of the parties to the mega-RTA’s overlapping RTA may become common parties, while others may remain as single-agreement parties. If the mega-RTA provides rules of origin based on the change in tariff classification (CTC)-with-exception criterion such as yarn-forward rules, the rules of origin will become more restrictive with respect to the imports of the excluded intermediate goods from the single-agreement parties after the formation of the mega-RTA than before, thus failing to meet the requirement under GATT Article XXIV:5. The exclusionary rules of origin of the mega-RTA draw the trade away from the single-agreement parties, causing ‘fracture’ in the mega-RTA’s overlapping RTA. As a legal remedy to the problem, the mega-RTA should eliminate the restriction from the CTC-with-exception criterion by adopting the rules of origin based on the non-exclusionary criteria such as the value-added or the CTC criterion that does not presumptively exclude the use of certain non-originating intermediate inputs.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745617000040

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Library acquisitions — June 2017

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Covers	Title, Authors/Editor details, WTO catalogue records email request links	Previews
	Comércio internacional : transportes e pagamentos, operações aduaneiras / José M. Albuquerque Martins. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926893 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	Compliance and enforcement of environmental law / edited by LeRoy C Paddock, David L Markell, Nicholas S Bryner. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926790 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/cbRpoa
	Economic methods for lawyers / Emanuel V. Towfigh, Niels Petersen ; with contributions by Markus Englerth … [et al.]. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926809 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/uYSo4A
	Informe anual 2017 de la OMC / Organización Mundial del Comercio. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|88673725 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Full text: https://goo.gl/QXgvFu
	International law as a profession / edited by Jean d’Aspremont … [et al.]. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926766 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/Keuavr
	North-south regional trade agreements as legal regimes : a critical assessment of the EU-SADC economic partnership agreement / Clair Gammage. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926776 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/dM9zqz
	Rapport annuel 2017 de l’OMC / Organisation mondiale du commerce. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|88673608 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Full text: https://goo.gl/YuLR6M
	Regional inter-dependence and Vietnam-Korea economic relationship / Tran Toan Thang … [et al]. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926830 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	Research handbook on climate change and agricultural law / edited by Mary Jane Angelo, Anél Du Plessis. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926786 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/Ge2pyp
	Rethinking international commercial arbitration : towards default arbitration / Gilles Cuniberti. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926782 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/ayvvbG
	Technology innovation law and practice : cases and materials / Theodore M. Hagelin. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926834 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/Zd5ZA9
	The WHO red book on access to medicines and intellectual property : 20 years later / Germán Velásquez, Pascale Boulet. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926832 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	WTO annual report 2017 / World Trade Organization. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|88666430 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Full text: https://goo.gl/78KWMK

 

Library acquisitions — May 2017

We are pleased to send you our list of selected new acquisitions from May 2017. You can send your requests to Web.Librarian@wto.org.

The list is also available on Library’s website: http://intranet/__resources/library/_en/new_for_you_new_books.html.

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Through 23 June 2017, take advantage of trial access to explore Africa Intelligence! This leading resource on Africa, published in English and French, brings together five publications (West Africa Newsletter, Indian Ocean Newsletter, Maghreb Confidential, Africa Energy Intelligence, and Africa Mining Intelligence) in one place, with a single searchable interface. For more information and to explore this resource during this limited trial period, visit Africa Intelligence here: https://www.africaintelligence.com Access is via username (unseiac@un.org) and password (trial17). In case of questions or to share your experience regarding this resource, please contact web.librarian@wto.org.

Covers	Title, Authors/Editor details, WTO catalogue records email request links	Previews
	The emergence of globalism : visions of world order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950 / Or Rosenboim. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926708 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/GCIR3M
	EU environmental law / Geert Van Calster, Leonie Reins. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926788 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/qTpKUN
	The future of Korea’s trade and business portfolio in North Africa : a deep horizon political economy scan of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia / Mark Abdollahian … [et al]. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926824 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/cmdo0j
	Handbook of globalisation and development / edited by Kenneth A. Reinert. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926772 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/SoLNGt
	Integración económica / Fernando Porta, Patricia Gutti, Ramiro Bertoni. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926792 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	The internationalization of government procurement regulation / edited by Aris Georgopoulos, Bernard Hoekman, Petros C. Mavroidis. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926762 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/P6AqLs
	Negotiating south-south regional trade agreements : economic opportunities and policy directions for Africa / [edited by] Gbadebo Odularu, Bamidele Adekunle. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926768 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/vc3AtB
	Public procurement and multilateral development banks : law, practice and problems / Sope Williams-Elegbe. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926760 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/ktIibx
	Research handbook on intellectual property in media and entertainment / edited by Megan Richardson, Sam Ricketson. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926778 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/3mFkln
	Research handbook on the politics of international law / edited by Wayne Sandholtz, Christopher A. Whytock. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926784 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/zmT61V
	(Re)structuring copyright : a comprehensive path to international copyright reform / Daniel J. Gervais. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926319 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/5J7XJ8
	The rise to market leadership : new leading firms from emerging countries / edited by Franco Malerba, Sunil Mani, Pamela Adams. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926770 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/8WsM7y
	Small and medium-sized enterprises in international economic law / edited by Thilo Rensmann. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926734 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/jDvYjW

 

Book News from WTO Publications, October 2016

The latest issue of Book News from WTO Publications, highlighting recently launched titles and products, is now available.

Featured in this instalment are four new titles, two launched at the WTO Public Forum in September 2016:

• World Trade Report 2016: Levelling the trading field for SMEs (also available in French and Spanish)
• African Perspectives on Trade and the WTO: Domestic Reforms, Structural Transformation and Global Economic Integration (PDF may be available for WTO staff and Members)
• Regional Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System (PDF may be available for WTO staff and Members)
• Trade Policy Reviews 2016 (list of Members reviewed in 2016 is available here)

To learn more about WTO Publications and availability of titles, visit the WTO Publications website or the WTO Bookshop website.