Research on the Legal Binding Force of the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services

Author: Landlord
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The abstract nature of the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) provisions tends to give the impression of weak legal binding force. Although judicial practices concerning services trade in the WTO system are not yet very rich, the trend of GATS's increasing legal binding force has already emerged. Guided by the general principles and rules of treaty law, this book closely combines with successful cases of services trade in WTO dispute settlement practices, conducts an in-depth study of the precise meanings of several major concepts and core norms of GATS, and reveals the increasingly strengthening trend of GATS's binding force on the behavior of WTO member governments.