Clinic: UWI, Spring 2019 Short Summary (Summary of a Confidential project for a Government Entity)* This memorandum seeks to provide an overview and analysis of the alternative options available to a Government in relation to the high tariffs that are currently in place for the manufacturing sector. This memorandum analyzes the numerous aids and defences provided for small developing countries under the WTO and GATT 1994 framework and provides policy recommendations, taking i

Trade-Restrictive Measures (TRM) are an area of huge concern to importers and exporters in African Union Least Developed Countries (AU LDCs) located in Sub-Saharan Africa. This report identifies and analyses discriminatory government policies that adversely affect AU LDCs over the period 2009 to 2017 by using the Global Trade Alert database, a database that collects information on trade-discriminatory measures implemented by countries worldwide. The research by the students s

This report seeks to legally arm the US government to pursue US interests vis-à-vis the UK and the EU (“Brexit Parties”), and to push trading priorities in negotiations under the auspices of the WTO. The report examines exactly how and when the US may assert its rights at the WTO and appropriately challenge existing trade remedy orders. It also explores the legal approaches by which the US would have valid bases to complain against the UK and the EU in the context of Brexit,

Clinic: Graduate Institute, Spring 2010 Beneficiary: Mexican Mission to the WTO Summary Full report available here This memorandum analyzes the coverage of export taxes in the GATT and WTO regime. While export taxes are not directly regulated under WTO law, they could potentially be challenged under several provisions. GATT Article II:1(b) enables a contracting party to challenge an export tax only if another member has made binding commitments in its schedule of concessions