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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Trade regulation"”.
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“Green” public procurement policies, climate change mitigation and international trade regulation: an assessment of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement
… and policy on the one hand, and international trade regulation on the other. The focus is government procurement. It looks at “green” government procurement (GPP) policies and practices used by the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol as a tool for climate change mitigation, and as it relates to these …
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Two essays on the sanitary and phytosanitary regulations affecting Mexico-U.S. agricultural trade
Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) regulations are designed to impede the unintentional movement of pests. In an attempt to reduce concerns about the use of SPS regulations as hidden barriers to trade, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) mandate …
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INTERNATIONAL LAWMAKING: EXPORT RESTRICTIONS ON MINERAL RAW MATERIALS
… critiquing the effectiveness of international trade law regulating export restrictions, with an emphasis on trade in mineral raw materials. First, it offers a historical and empirical analysis of export restrictions on raw materials. Second, it is based on a legal analysis of the texts, …
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A bibliographical and textual study of the wordbooks for James Miller's Joseph and his brethren and Thomas Broughton's Hercules, oratorio librettos set to music by George Frideric Handel, 1743-44.
… wordbook production in the context of book trade regulation and copyright. Chapter Six discusses the material identity of the wordbooks and the design principles which supported their reception. The thesis concludes that access to printed librettos is essential to redress the verbal-musical …
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The impact of regulatory changes on the client service delivery strategies of a large multinational accounting firm in South Africa
… and the profession. Although financial reporting regulations have forced accounting firms to become better acquainted with the client’s business risk, frustration due to independence restrictions exists and affects the auditor-client relationship. Unfortunately, increased regulations have also …
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Rethinking International Antitrust Regulation : a Window On The Future Of International Trade Conflicts
… uncertainty. A lack of international antitrust regulation may also lead to antitrust protectionism if states underenforce their antitrust laws on domestic corporations, while overenforcing those same laws on foreign corporations. These concerns have sparked demands to move away from …
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The World Trade Organisation and developing countries, with specific reference to South Africa
… special emphasis on the newly established World Trade Organisation (Hereinafter, WTO) and its implications for developing countries. This organisation has replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Hereinafter, GATT) as the overall mechanism for regulating international trade. The trade …
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They Certainly Have the Rhetoric: Brexit and the Irish Border in the Mockumentary Soft Border Patrol
… still belongs to the EU, with Brexit, a new trade regulation has become inevitable at the border. Moreover, as the well-known Irish Times journalist Fintan O’Toole has claimed, by re-disrupting the border, English politicians risk bringing up past grievances, since leaving the EU undermines …
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Through The Looking Glass: Transparency in the WTO
… transparency as a principle in the World Trade Organization. Transparency is used in many contexts within the organization in order to describe phenomena ranging from Agreement provisions to soft law or general principle and from the obligation of member states to publish national trade …
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In search of coherence and consistency in European contract law: a way forward
… of the internal market and for crossborder trade from the existing divergent and fragmentary state of European contract law at the EU and national levels. This question was answered in the affirmative. Action was needed to simplify the regulatory environment for cross-border trade; to …
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Global displacements : geographies of work and industrial restructuring in the Dominican Republic.
… for US market share and a new regime of trade regulation without global quotas, garment firms in the Dominican Republic undertook a process of restructuring, including the retrenchment of the majority of the country’s garment workforce. I explore this process from the perspective of four …
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Trademark Dilution : an Analysis of U.S., E.U., and East Asian Trademark Law.
… The dilution theory overturns the existing trademark theory which requires a likelihood of confusion to protect marks. The conventional role of trademarks is to distinguish owners' goods from others. If there was no competition or similarity between two goods, there would be no consumer …
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International Merger Conflicts Between the U.S. and the EU and Their Implications on Development of Merger Controls of the Korean Antitrust Law a Comparative Study of the U.S. and EU Competition Laws with the Focus on the Ciba-Geigy/Sandoz, Boeing/McDonnell Douglas, and GE/Honeywell Cases
… first earnest antitrust statute, the "Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act" on December 23, 1980. Although Korea has more than twenty years of antitrust history, its antitrust policy and jurisprudence is underdeveloped and has a number outstanding areas that need to be advanced in order to …
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Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) Commitment Disputes and Antitrust Law–An Analysis of Bundled Rebate Under FRAND Commitment Context
The FRAND commitment is an important tool to balance the incentives between SEPs holders and downstream implementers. However, because of its unclarity, federal courts and legal scholars are split in the issues of the royalty calculations and some other antitrust disputes. This Dissertation focuses …
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Dichotomy of Product Packaging/ Product Design in U.S. Trade Dress Law and Its Implications for Developing Countries
U.S. trade dress law has changed dramatically as a result of the Supreme Court's Wal-Mart decision in 2000. The Wal-Mart Court held that, in detem1ining legal protection for a trade dress, different standards should be applied depending on whether the trade dress is product packaging or product …
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China's Ministry of Commerce's Merger Review - Looking Into the "Black Box" to Find its Competition Policy
<p>The merger review of China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) during the period 2008-2018 has trends significantly toward those of the United States and the European Union. Both Western and Chinese jurisdictions apply a law and economics approach to merger reviews. However, MOFCOM, unlike the West, …
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Out of the shadow? Accounting for Special Purpose Entities in European banking systems
… rules. This essential fact of financial market regulation in itself is not the topic of this dissertation. The question instead is, given these conditions, how can state agencies limit this behaviour? By investigating the evolving regulatory treatment of a segment of the shadow banking sector …
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Adoption of a Digital Currency Towards a Singular Continental Market: A Catalyst for African Economic Integration and Revolutionising Pan-African Trade Payment Systems
… integration and facilitate cross-boundary trade. African states, recognising this potential, are exploring the creation of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) to harness the advantages of decentralised technology while maintaining regulatory oversight. The inherent nature of CBDCs makes …