Book contents
- Law and Politics on Export Restrictions
- Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law
- Law and Politics on Export Restrictions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Table of Legislation
- Table of Cases
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 WTO Rules on Export Restrictions
- 3 Governing Export Restrictions
- 4 Export Restrictions in the Global Supply Chain
- 5 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Governing Export Restrictions
National Security and International Political Economy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 July 2021
- Law and Politics on Export Restrictions
- Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law
- Law and Politics on Export Restrictions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Table of Legislation
- Table of Cases
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 WTO Rules on Export Restrictions
- 3 Governing Export Restrictions
- 4 Export Restrictions in the Global Supply Chain
- 5 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The architects of the post-war international economic order set out for the legal framework for liberal international trade underpinned by the GATT regime. Nonetheless, the East–West division necessitated a regime regulating trade between these two camps with the main objective to prevent strategic and technological articles transferred to the Soviet Bloc. Russia joins the Wassenaar Arrangement (the successor of COCOM) while China is still out. The market economy oriented GATT/WTO widens its membership and importantly accepted China in 2001 and Russia in 2012. Its diversified memberships make it a real ‘world trade organisation’ but at the same time introduce huge challenges for its governance, as manifested in the proliferation of national security exception. Whether the national security exceptions is ‘self-judging’ has been debated since the GATT era, but intensified in the past decade owing to the transformation of ‘negative consensus’ to ‘positive consensus’. The ‘self-judging’ debates of national security points to the underlying tension between sovereign as masters of treaties and adjudicator as treaty-interpreters.
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- Law and Politics on Export RestrictionsWTO and Beyond, pp. 112 - 191Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021