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5 - How the WTO Constructed Inuit and Indigenous Identity in EC-Seal Products

from Part I - Indigenous Peoples and International Trade and Investment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2020

John Borrows
Affiliation:
University of Victoria, British Columbia
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Chapter 5 brings the reader to the far north to examine the importance of self-determination for Inuit in trading disputes on seals and seal products. Michael Fakhri and Madeleine Redfern focus on how the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization used trade law to construct an Indigenous exemption including a European-imposed determination of Indigenous identity for the purpose of trade in a manner that limits Inuit political and economic options and works against their rights. This chapter emphasizes the importance of Indigenous people continuing to assert their sovereign power and claims for self-determination not just through international law but, more specifically, through international trade law.

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Indigenous Peoples and International Trade
Building Equitable and Inclusive International Trade and Investment Agreements
, pp. 109 - 130
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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