Global Trade Negotiations Home Page Center for International Development at Harvard University (Albert Cho and Odette Yousef under the guidance of Prof. Dani Rodrik and Prof. Robert Lawrence)

Google on Globalization and Free Trade

Researching International Economic Law on the Internet Institute of International Economic Law Georgetown University Law Center

ASIL Guide to International Economic Law Jean M. Wenger for the American Society of International Law

Economic Law

World Economic Order and Social Order

Other Major Ministerial Declarations and Decision (Courtesy of Kazuo Chujo - source documents. Additional check not made.):

Geneva Ministerial Declaration (Adopted on 20 May 1998)
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WTO Declaration on Global Electronic Commerce (Adopted on 20 May 1998)
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Singapore Ministerial Declaration (Adopted on 13 December 1996)
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Marrakesh Declaration of 15 April 1994
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Ministerial Declaration on the Uruguay Round (Declaration of 20 September 1986, Punta del Este)
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Thirty-Eight Session at Ministerial Level Ministerial Declaration (Adopted on 29 November 1982, Geneva)
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Differential and More Favourable Treatment Reciprocity and Fuller Participation of Developing Countries (Decision of 28 November 1979) ("Enabling Clause")
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Cordell Hull Institute, Press Release, Tuesday 19 June 2001
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White House "US National Documents" gopher://cyfer.esusda.gov/11/ace/hot.topic.links/gatt Gopher version and WP5.1 and other text formats.

WTA/WTO Japanese text

WTO Guides and Summaries What is the WTO? WTO on the WTO

WTO - Frequently Asked Questions

OAS Summary Description of the Uruguay Round Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization ‹http://www.wtowatch.org/library/admin/uploadedfiles/General_Agreement_on_Tariffs_and_Trade_GATT_19.htm› GATT

WTO Panel Decisions Lyonette Louis-Jacques

Rowe & Maw UK

Book title: "The World Trading System : Law and Policy of International Economic Relations" by John H. Jackson

gopher://gopher.law.cornell.edu/00/foreign/fletcher/BH209.txt GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947 as amended through 1966)

Seattle December 1999 spawned protest (on the streets and in cyberspace) from a wide variety of sources with differing and sometimes conflicting agenda, which included: environmentalists; developing countries; and trade unions.

Ruckus News | Globalize This! News Coverage

WTO spoof look alike site

What's wrong with the WTO? A guide to where the mines are buried by Peter Costantini ~ Seattle ~ November 2001

"ITLR - International Trade Law Reports" - on WTO conflict resolution, Cameron May.

European Union (Maastricht)

European Union Information Sources.

European Union Wikipedia entry

European Union Pages Online

European Information Association 'Developing, co-ordinating and improving access to EU information'

EuroInternet Information Resources Related to European Integration on the Internet. Michael Nentwich

European Union Resources Berkeley

EU resources WWW Virtual Library

Sources on the European Union HR-Net

European Union Resource Guide EU in the US, Delegation of the European Commission, Washington, DC

EU Market Access Database

European Integration Online Papers (EIoP)

The first interdisciplinary, peer reviewed publication on the Web in the field of European Integration, at the Austrian branch of the European Communities Studies Association. Editor in Chief Michael Nentwich. Launched 10 April 1997.

European Union (Maastricht)

Treaty on European Union July 1992, Maastricht Treaty unamended

Wikipedia entry

EU Member States

North American Free Trade Agreement

NAFTA

NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement

OAS Overview of NAFTA

NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement

NAFTA Wikipedia entry

NAFTA Secretariat

NAFTA Resources at Berkeley

The National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade

NataNet - Treaties, Free Trade Agreements, & International Agreements

NAFTA Mexico Resources

The Language of Trade

Nafta at Public Citizen / Global Trade Watch

Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) - Historical

Multilateral Agreement on Investment Draft, Distributed January 13, 1997 cancelling and replacing the same document sent on OLIS 08-Jan-1997

MAI Information Page

MAI at FLORA "Fair Trade not Free Trade"

MAI Global Trade Watch Home Page

MAI at the Global Policy Forum "we monitor global policy making at the United Nations"

Neo-Classical Economic Globalization is not a "fact of life"

OECD on 1995-1998 MAI Negotiations

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment Appleton & Associates

The Council of Canadians

"The new Multilateral Agreement on Investment gives the corporations so much power, Parliament won't matter"

MAI Lawsuites Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee

MAI:Potential Effects on State & Local Government Western Governors' Association

Multinational Monitor

Multilateral Agreement on Investment Global Policy Forum

MAI Fact Sheet Friends of The Earth-US February 19, 1997 OECD on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment

Multilateral Agreement on Investment US State Department, Archive

Multilateral Agreement on Investment and article, by Anup Shah, 2000

Foreign Direct Investment and Capital Movements OECD

The Benefits of MAI

International Trade Law

See Private International Commercial Law including

Agency

Applicable Law (Conflict of Laws / Proper Law)

Arbitration (International Commercial Arbitration & other Dispute Settlement)

Arbitration Courts and Tribunals

Intellectual Property Law

Jurisdiction & Enforcement

Limitation Periods in the International Sale of Goods

Payment Mechanisms & Guarantees

Procedure & Evidence

Procurement of Goods & Services

Sale of Goods

Public Law

GATT and the World Trade Organisation

Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)

North American Free Trade Agreement

International Trade Law

Customs

Trade Regulation and Corruption

Regional Groupings and Harmonising Instruments

Investment

Customs

International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Kyoto, 18 May 1973) | Amending Supplement No. 13 - January 1993 World Customs Organization (refind)

Sites

Braumiller & Rodriguez, L.L.C. a Customs and International Trade Law Firm

Trade Regulation and Corruption

United Nations Convention Against Corruption (2003)
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Transparency International

Regional Groupings and Harmonising Instruments

Will consider development of this page and its relationship to other listings on this site including

Africa

African Union

African Union [check]

African Unification Front

African Union Wikipedia entry

COMESA - Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

COMESA Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

ECOWAS - Economic Community of West African States

ECOWAS - Economic Community of West African States [check]

ECOWAS Info

ECOWAS Wikipedia entry

NEPAD - New Plan for African Development

NEPAD Wikipedia entry

OAU - Organization of African Unity

See African Union

Organization of African Unity

Creation of the OAU

Wikipedia entry

Ohada

OHADA about

Organisation for Harmonisation of African Business Law (Ohada) Treaty, 1993, Mauritius Francophone initiative, signed in Mauritius in 1993, entered into effect in July 1995 after the seventh ratification. Open to any member of the OAU (Organisation of African Unity).

Ohada Website Ohada homepage (French)

"Article 3 of the Treaty has set up an organization in charge of its implementation, named 'Organisation for Harmonisation of African Business Laws, (OHADA) which comprises a Council of Ministers and a Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (CCJA). The Council of Minister is assisted by a Permanent Secretary to which is attached a Regional Institute of Magistrates installed in Porto-Novo (Benin).

* the Uniform Act on General Business Law

* the Uniform Act on the Company Laws and Pooling of Economic Interest

* the Uniform Act on organization of securities

Three other Uniform Acts (on Bankruptcy law, Debt collection and Enforcement law, Accounting law) are being drafted and will probably be adopted on April 1st 1998."

A regional commercial arbitration court is to be established in Ivory Coast by the middle of 1999.

The Americas

Also see NAFTA

Legal Information Institute Cornell University School of Law

Mercosur Red Acad?mica Uruguaya

MERCOSUR Wikipedia entry

The Mercosur Economic Research Network

See Nafta in the section on Free Trade

Asia

ASEAN - Association of South East Asian Nations

ASEAN Wikipedia entry

Visit: AustLII - Australasian Legal Information Institute

Australia

Visit: AustLII - Australasian Legal Information Institute

The Commonwealth

The Commonwealth of Nations Wikipedia entry

BAILII British and Irish Legal Information Institute (2000)

Group of 8

G7 - Group of 7 Wikipedia entry

Group of 8

G8 Information Center the University of Toronto Library and the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto

G8 - Goup of * Wikipedia entry

Europe

European Union Sources from Europa

European Union Wikipedia entry

European Union Members and Sources

See Maastricht in the section on

The Principles Of European Contract Law 1998

EFTA - European Free Trade Association

Council of Europe

Council of Europe Wikipedia entry

OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OECD

OECD Washington Center

OECD Wikipedia entry

Pacific

"World"

ICC

International Chamber of Commerce

United Nations

United Nations (international law section)

United Nations Wikipedia entry

United Nations trade related resources

Hague Conference on Private International Law

HC-PIL - locally maintained information

Unidroit

Unidroit - locally maintained information

Investment

Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, UNIDROIT 2001
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Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment, UNIDROIT 2001
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Environment

Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) - historical

See section on MAI

Endnotes

^1. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/wta.1994/sisu_manifest.html›

^2. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/wto.ministerial.declaration.geneva.1998/sisu_manifest.html›

^3. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/wta.electronic.commerce.1998/sisu_manifest.html›

^4. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/wto.ministerial.declaration.singapore.1996/sisu_manifest.html›

^5. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/wto.gatt.marrakesh.declaration.1994/sisu_manifest.html›

^6. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/wto.gatt.ministerial.declaration.uruguay.round.1986/sisu_manifest.html›

^7. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/wto.gatt.thirty.eighth.session.ministerial.declaration.1982/sisu_manifest.html›

^8. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/wto.gatt.developing.countries.enabling.clause.1979/sisu_manifest.html›

^9. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/gressy.press.release.200106/sisu_manifest.html›

^10. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/un.against.corruption.convention.2003/sisu_manifest.html›

^11. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/unidroit.mobile.equipment.international.interests.convention.2001/sisu_manifest.html›

^12. ‹http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/unidroit.mobile.equipment.international.interests.on.matters.specific.to.aircraft.equipment.protocol.2001/sisu_manifest.html›

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