TY - BOOK AU - Blume,Allende TI - Globalisation and international trade SN - 9789382226888 U1 - 327 22 PY - 2014/// CY - New Delhi : PB - Random Exports, KW - World Trade Organization. KW - International trade KW - Free trade N1 - economic&political bookfair2015; The development of the GATT WTO system -- A system for change -- Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization -- The general agreement on tariffs and trade -- The WTO agreements -- Six-part broad outline -- Tariffs : more bindings and closer to zero -- Agriculture : fairer markets for farmers -- Standards and safety -- Textiles : back in the mainstream -- Services : rules for growth and investment -- Intellectual property : protection and enforcement -- Anti-dumping, subsidies, safeguards : contingencies, etc. -- Plurilaterals : of minority interest -- Trade policy reviews : ensuring transparency -- A unique contribution -- Strengthening developing countries in the WTO -- Opportunities, challenges and response -- Manifestations of weakness of developing countries -- Strategies of developing countries in the WTO -- The WTO decision-making process -- A glimpse of the tasks ahead -- The future course -- WTO and developing countires -- Problems with current U.S. policy -- Toward a new foreign policy -- Transparency, participation and legitimacy of the WTO -- Implications of the various agreements on developing countries -- The Doha agenda -- Implementation-related issues and concerns (par 12) -- Special and differential treatment -- Most favoured nation -- History -- Specific countries' policies -- Commercial treaty -- MFN treatment and its scope -- Most-favoured-nation principle -- MFN treatment in practice, 1776-1887 : conditional MFN within protectionism -- Free trade -- In literature -- History of free trade -- Economics of free trade -- Free trade debate -- Sociopolitical arguments in favour of free trade -- Criticisms of free trade -- Economic arguments against free trade -- Free trade undermines national security -- Arguments against free trade -- The argument for free trade -- Economic arguments for free trade -- Customs law -- Customary law and codification -- Import/export restrictions/prohibitions under customs law -- The customs tariff Act, 1975 ER -