LEX MERCATORIA: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW ****************************************** INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW / PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW - TREATIES RELATED TO FREE TRADE AND OR ECONOMIC UNION ============================================================================== GATT AND THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION ------------------------------------- WORLD TRADE AGREEMENT ..................... WTA/ GATT 1994 (Uruguay Round); The Final Act and Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Uruguay Round (including GATT 1994). Marrakesh, 15 April 1994. 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[link: ] Cornell LII LLRX - WTO/GATT Research [link: ] By Jeanne Rehberg Law Library Resource Xchange World Trade ILS Reference Guides [link: ] Harvard University Global Trade Negotiations Home Page [link: ] 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 [link: ] Researching International Economic Law on the Internet [link: ] Institute of International Economic Law Georgetown University Law Center ASIL Guide to International Economic Law [link: ] Jean M. Wenger for the American Society of International Law Economic Law [link: ] World Economic Order and Social Order [link: ] Other Major Ministerial Declarations and Decision (Courtesy of Kazuo Chujo - source documents. 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WTA/WTO Japanese text [link: ] WTO Guides and Summaries What is the WTO? [link: ] WTO on the WTO WTO - Frequently Asked Questions [link: ] OAS Summary Description of the Uruguay Round Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization [link: ] GATT WTO Panel Decisions [link: ] Lyonette Louis-Jacques Rowe & Maw [link: ] UK Book title: "The World Trading System : Law and Policy of International Economic Relations" by John H. Jackson [link: ] 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 [link: ] WTO spoof look alike site [link: ] What's wrong with the WTO? A guide to where the mines are buried [link: ] by Peter Costantini ~ Seattle ~ November 2001 "ITLR - International Trade Law Reports" - on WTO conflict resolution, [link: ] Cameron May. See also Ethical Globalisation? Questions, Issues, Objections & Protests EUROPEAN UNION (MAASTRICHT) --------------------------- European Union Information Sources. [link: ] European Union [link: ] Wikipedia entry European Union Pages Online [link: ] European Information Association [link: ] 'Developing, co-ordinating and improving access to EU information' EuroInternet [link: ] Information Resources Related to European Integration on the Internet. Michael Nentwich European Union Resources [link: ] Berkeley EU resources [link: ] WWW Virtual Library Sources on the European Union [link: ] HR-Net European Union Resource Guide [link: ] EU in the US, Delegation of the European Commission, Washington, DC EU Market Access Database [link: ] European Integration Online Papers (EIoP) [link: ] 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 [link: ] July 1992, Maastricht Treaty unamended Wikipedia entry [link: ] EU Member States NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT ----------------------------------- NAFTA [link: ] NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement [link: ] OAS Overview of NAFTA [link: ] NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement [link: ] NAFTA [link: ] Wikipedia entry NAFTA Secretariat [link: ] NAFTA Resources [link: ] at Berkeley The National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade [link: ] NataNet - Treaties, Free Trade Agreements, & International Agreements [link: ] NAFTA Mexico Resources [link: ] The Language of Trade [link: ] Nafta at Public Citizen / Global Trade Watch [link: ] MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENT (MAI) - HISTORICAL ------------------------------------------------------- Multilateral Agreement on Investment [link: ] Draft, Distributed January 13, 1997 cancelling and replacing the same document sent on OLIS 08-Jan-1997 MAI Information Page [link: ] MAI [link: ] at FLORA [link: ] "Fair Trade not Free Trade" MAI [link: ] Global Trade Watch Home Page [link: ] MAI [link: ] at the Global Policy Forum [link: ] "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 [link: ] The Multilateral Agreement on Investment [link: ] Appleton & Associates The Council of Canadians [link: ] "The new Multilateral Agreement on Investment gives the corporations so much power, Parliament won't matter" [link: ] MAI Lawsuites [link: ] Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee [link: ] MAI:Potential Effects on State & Local Government [link: ] Western Governors' Association Multinational Monitor [link: ] Multilateral Agreement on Investment [link: ] Global Policy Forum MAI Fact Sheet Friends of The Earth-US February 19, 1997 [link: ] OECD on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment Multilateral Agreement on Investment [link: ] US State Department, Archive Multilateral Agreement on Investment [link: ] and article, by Anup Shah, 2000 Foreign Direct Investment and Capital Movements [link: ] OECD [link: ] The Benefits of MAI [link: ] 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 Carriage of Goods Contract Principles Customs Electronic Commerce Insurance 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 [link: ] (Kyoto, 18 May 1973) | Amending Supplement No. 13 - January 1993 World Customs Organization (refind) SITES ..... Braumiller & Rodriguez, L.L.C. [link: ] a Customs and International Trade Law Firm TRADE REGULATION AND CORRUPTION ------------------------------- United Nations Convention Against Corruption (2003) [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^10] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Transparency International [link: ] REGIONAL GROUPINGS AND HARMONISING INSTRUMENTS ---------------------------------------------- Will consider development of this page and its relationship to other listings on this site including See also: Organizations AFRICA ...... AFRICAN UNION ............. African Union [link: ] [check] [link: ] African Unification Front [link: ] African Union [link: ] Wikipedia entry COMESA - COMMON MARKET FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA ...................................................... COMESA [link: ] Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa ECOWAS - ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES .................................................. ECOWAS - Economic Community of West African States [link: ] [check] ECOWAS Info [link: ] ECOWAS [link: ] Wikipedia entry NEPAD - NEW PLAN FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT ........................................ NEPAD - New Plan for African Development [link: ] NEPAD [link: ] Wikipedia entry OAU - ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY ................................... See African Union Organization of African Unity [link: ] Creation of the OAU [link: ] Wikipedia entry [link: ] OHADA ..... OHADA [link: ] 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 [link: ] Ohada homepage (French) [link: ] "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 [link: ] Cornell University School of Law Mercosur [link: ] Red Acad?mica Uruguaya MERCOSUR [link: ] Wikipedia entry The Mercosur Economic Research Network [link: ] See Nafta in the section on Free Trade ASIA .... ASEAN - Association of South East Asian Nations [link: ] ASEAN [link: ] Wikipedia entry Visit: AustLII - Australasian Legal Information Institute [link: ] AUSTRALIA ......... Visit: AustLII - Australasian Legal Information Institute [link: ] THE COMMONWEALTH ................ The Commonwealth [link: ] The Commonwealth of Nations [link: ] Wikipedia entry BAILII [link: ] British and Irish Legal Information Institute (2000) GROUP OF 8 .......... G7 - Group of 7 [link: ] Wikipedia entry GROUP OF 8 .......... G8 Information Center [link: ] the University of Toronto Library and the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto G8 - Goup of * [link: ] Wikipedia entry EUROPE ...... European Union Sources [link: ] from Europa [link: ] European Union [link: ] 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 [link: ] Council of Europe [link: ] Council of Europe [link: ] Wikipedia entry OECD - ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT ............................................................. OECD [link: ] OECD Washington Center [link: ] OECD [link: ] Wikipedia entry PACIFIC ....... "WORLD" ....... See also: Organizations ICC ... International Chamber of Commerce [link: ] UNITED NATIONS .............. United Nations (international law section) [link: ] United Nations [link: ] Wikipedia entry United Nations trade related resources HAGUE CONFERENCE ON PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW ............................................. Hague Conference on Private International Law [link: ] HC-PIL - locally maintained information UNIDROIT ........ Unidroit [link: ] Unidroit - locally maintained information INVESTMENT ---------- Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, UNIDROIT 2001 [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^11] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment, UNIDROIT 2001 [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^12] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] OTHER INVESTMENT RELATED LINKS .............................. Arbitration Arbitration involving States & Investors Jurisdiction and Enforcement Insolvency Protection of Intellectual Property Free Trade Other Harmonising Instruments Multilateral Agreement on Investment (historical) ETHICAL GLOBALISATION? QUESTIONS, ISSUES, OBJECTIONS & PROTESTS ............................................................... UN World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 [link: ] Johannesburg, South Africa Earth Summit (Sustainable Development) 2002 [link: ] official Website for World Social Forum 2002 [link: ] World Social Forum [link: ] Transnational Institute [link: ] Susan George [link: ] Online Computer Library Centre [link: ] OCLC Public Affairs Information Service "current issues and actions which affect the world communities, countries, and governments." database [link: ] Global Policy Forum [link: ] "we monitor global policy making at the United Nations" Eldis [link: ] "gateway to development information" Global Trade Watch [link: ] CORRECTION OF POVERTY ..................... Oxfam International - United for a more equitable world [link: ] FLORA [link: ] "Fair Trade not Free Trade" One World [link: ] Third World Network [link: ] The Third World Network of Scientific Organizations (TWNSO) [link: ] United Nations Sustainable Development [link: ] PANOS [link: ] Eldis [link: ] "Gateway to Development Information" Tobin Tax [link: ] ATTAC - Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens [link: ] War on Want [link: ] Campaign against World Poverty CORRUPTION .......... Transparency International [link: ] IP ISSUES ......... Patenting Life Is Wrong, Some Say [link: ] By Paul Elias The Associated Press, February 1, 2002 Who owns your DNA? [link: ] Genetic research that can save lives is often stymied by biotech companies' greedy patent claims. by Arthur Allen, Salon.com March 7, 2000 Should DNA be Patentable? Slashdot discussion [link: ] GNU General Public License (GPL/ Copyleft) [link: ] FSF MIT to Make Nearly all course material available free on the World Wide Web [link: ] "unprecedented step challenges the privatization of knowledge" MIT News - April 4 2001 fact sheet [link: ] news office [link: ] Eben Moglen [link: ] Professor of Law & Legal History, Columbia Law School Lawrence Lessig [link: ] (Professor) Stanford Law School Open Source - Fresh Memes in Information/Knowledge Sharing (a feast of the commons? / percolation?) ENVIRONMENT ........... MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENT (MAI) - HISTORICAL ....................................................... 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