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    This document outlines the course content and structure for an International Trade Law course offered as part of a B.A.LL.B.(H.) program. The course covers the history and development of the World Trade Organization, sources of international trade law, the WTO dispute settlement process, enforcement of obligations, principles of most favored nation treatment and national treatment, barriers to trade such as tariffs and quotas, provisions for developing countries, the relationship between trade and the environment, and major international trade agreements. Students will learn through lectures, discussions, presentations, and case analyses. The reading list provides additional resources on topics like the role and challenges of developing countries in the WTO system and disputes involving trade and environmental standards.

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    This document outlines the course content and structure for an International Trade Law course offered as part of a B.A.LL.B.(H.) program. The course covers the history and development of the World Trade Organization, sources of international trade law, the WTO dispute settlement process, enforcement of obligations, principles of most favored nation treatment and national treatment, barriers to trade such as tariffs and quotas, provisions for developing countries, the relationship between trade and the environment, and major international trade agreements. Students will learn through lectures, discussions, presentations, and case analyses. The reading list provides additional resources on topics like the role and challenges of developing countries in the WTO system and disputes involving trade and environmental standards.

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    School of Law and Governance

    LAW- International Trade Law L T P C


    Version1.1 4 0 0 4
    Pre-Requisites//Exposure International law
    Co-requisites
    Semester VIII
    Programme B.A.LL.B.(H.)

    1.0. Teaching Learning Methodology:

    Lecture Method

    Discussion Method

    Presentation/Case analysis

    Court Room Exercise

    Problem Method

    Course Contents:

    MODULE-1: History and Development of WTO

    ➢ Brief history of GATT/WTO


    ➢ Institutional Structure of WTO
    ➢ Membership, Accession and Withdrawal
    ➢ Decision making process

    MODULE -2: Sources of law

    ➢ The traditional sources analogy, International agreements, Customary International law,


    General Principles of law and judicial decisions.
    ➢ Covered Agreements, Vienna Convention on law of Treaties
    ➢ Travaux preparatoires

    MODULE -3: Dispute Settlement

    ➢ Introduction to WTO dispute settlement


    ➢ Institutions
    ➢ Types of Complaints
    ➢ Dispute resolution Procedure
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    MODULE -4: Enforcement of WTO obligations

    ➢ Compliance
    ➢ Compensation
    ➢ Retaliation

    MODULE -5: Most Favoured Nations Clause

    ➢ Meaning of MFN
    ➢ Like products
    ➢ Rule of origin
    ➢ Exceptions to MFN clause

    MODULE 6: National Treatment

    ➢ Meaning of NT
    ➢ Like product
    ➢ State trading monopolies
    ➢ Exception to NT

    MODULE -5: Tariff, Quotas and Other barriers to market access

    ➢ Tariff, nature of tariff, welfare effects of tariff, tariff modifications


    ➢ Quotas, nature of quota, welfare effects of quota, prohibition on quota and other measures
    that restrain trade, exception to the prohibition of quota and other measures.
    ➢ Technical barriers to trade; sanitary and phytosanitary measures

    MODULE 6- Developing Countries and WTO

    ➢ Meaning of developing countries, World Bank classification, Least developed Countries


    by UN.
    ➢ Provisions for Developing countries and LDC in WTO
    ➢ Enabling clause
    ➢ Special and Differential treatment
    ➢ Technical assistance
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    ➢ Legal assistance
    ➢ Transitional time period
    ➢ Waivers
    ➢ Critique of the effectiveness of the measures for developing and LDCs

    MODULE-6: Environment Protection and Trade

    ➢ International trade and Environment


    ➢ The Environment impact of Trade
    ➢ The Tuna Dolphin case
    ➢ EC Beef hormones case
    ➢ Shrimp turtle case
    ➢ Trade and environment : GATT/WTO rules: Art XX
    ➢ Agreement on SPS

    MODULE 7: Brief understanding of Major International Agreements

    ➢ Agreement on Agriculture
    ➢ Anti dumping Agreement
    ➢ Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement
    ➢ The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (the "SPS
    Agreement")
    ➢ The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

    Cases

    India – Measures Affecting the Automotive Sector case, Complaint by US & EU against India,
    European Communities – Measures Prohibiting the Importation and Marketing of Seal
    Products, Australia-Salmon, Brazil-Tyres, Canada-Aircraft, Canada-Dairy, Canada-Autos,
    Canada Lumber, Canada-Periodicals, Dram Chips Case, EC-Asbestos, EC-Bananas, EC-Bed
    Linen, EC-Hormones, EC-Sardines, EC-Tariff Preferences, Guatemala-Cement, Japan-
    Alcohol, Korea-Beef, India-Quantitative Restrictions, Thailand-Cigarettes, Thailand-H Beans,
    TunaDolphin (1991), Tuna-Dolphin (1994), Turkey-Textiles, US-FSC, US-Gambling
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    Services, US-Gasoline, US-Hot Rolled Steel from Japan, US-Shrimp, US-Soft Lumber, US-
    Subsidies on Up Land Cotton, US-Wool shirts, Japan Alcoholic beverages case

    Reading materials

    Mitsuo Matsushita, Thomas J. Schoenbaum and Petros C. Mavroidis, The World Trade
    Organization: Law, Practice and Policy (Oxford University Press:2006).

    Michael Trebilcock, Robert Howse, Antonia Eliason, The Regulation of International Trade, 4th
    edition (Routledge:2012)

    Pitroda, S. S. (1995). From GATT to WTO: The Institutionalization of World Trade. Harvard
    International Review, 17(2), 46–67.

    Qureshi, A. H. (2003). Participation of Developing Countries in the WTO Dispute Settlement


    System. Journal of African Law, 47(2), 174–198.

    MADAAN, D. K. (2000). WTO AND THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. India Quarterly,


    56(3/4), 53–60.

    SOUKAR, L. (2019). Natural Resources Endowment and WTO. Journal of Economic Integration,
    34(3), 546–589.

    Horlick, Gary N. “The WTO and Developing Countries.” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting
    (American Society of International Law) 100 (2006): 220–23.

    Charnovitz, S. (1998). Environment and Health Under WTO Dispute Settlement. The International
    Lawyer, 32(3), 901–921.

    Chimni, B. S. (2000). WTO and Environment: Shrimp-Turtle and EC-Hormones Cases. Economic
    and Political Weekly, 35(20), 1752–1761.

    Chimni, B. S. (2002). WTO and Environment: Legitimisation of Unilateral Trade Sanctions.


    Economic and Political Weekly, 37(2), 133–139.

    Schoenbaum, T. J. (1997). International Trade and Protection of the Environment: The Continuing
    Search for Reconciliation. The American Journal of International Law, 91(2), 268–313.
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    Ravindra Pratap. (2003). WTO and Rules of Origin: Issues for India. Economic and Political
    Weekly, 38(33), 3454–3456.

    Saggi, K., & Sengul, F. (2009). On the Emergence of an MFN Club: Equal Treatment in an
    Unequal World. The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d’Economique, 42(1),
    267–299.

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