Preferential Trade Agreements and International Law Routledge Research in International Economic Law Series

The multilateral trade agreements in the Annexes to the Agreement Establishing

the World Trade Organization provide a comprehensive structure for international

trade. Why would trading partners in different countries feel the need to

go outside this framework in order to set up preferential trade arrangements?

This book considers the structure of the World Trade Organization?s agreements

and the types of preferential trade arrangements, and deliberates the value of the

latter in the light of the operation of the former.

Preferential Trade Agreements and International Law offers a comprehensive

examination of preferential trade agreements and considers the features of specific

regional and bilateral trade agreements without drawing upon systematic

features and trends. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will

be of value to researchers, academics, policymakers, and students interested in

international trade and economic law.

1. The World Trade Organization’s Multilateral Trade Agreements: Structure and Commentary

2. The Scope for Preferential Trade Agreements within the World Trade Organization's Framework

3. Bilateral Trade Agreements

4. Regional Trade Agreements

5. The Benefits and the Limitations of Preferential Trade Agreements

6. An Assessment of the Value-Added of the Preferential Trade Agreements to the World Trade Organization’s Framework

Graeme Baber is an independent legal researcher, and has published many articles,

comments, briefings and updates. His previous monographs are The Impact

of Legislation and Regulation on the Freedom of Movement of Capital in Estonia,

Poland and Latvia (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), The Free Movement

of Capital and Financial Services: An Exposition? (Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

2014), The European Union and the Global Financial Crisis: A View from

2016 (Nova Science Publishers, 2016), Essays on International Law (Cambridge

Scholars Publishing, 2017), and International Financial Law: Quo Vadis? (Nova

Science Publishers, 2017). Graeme has written dissertations and chapters for

edited collections, and has presented his work at international conferences. He

is an experienced teacher of university students, lecturing on both international

law and financial law.