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- Open Strategic Autonomy in EU Trade Policy
- Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
- Open Strategic Autonomy in EU Trade Policy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I EU Trade Policy and Its Constraints
- Part II The Tools for Stronger Enforcement of Trade Rights
- 4 The EU-Led MPIA
- 5 The Amended Trade Enforcement Regulation
- 6 The Anti-Coercion Instrument
- 7 Enforcement of the FTA TSD Chapters
- Part III The Tools for Assertive Representation of EU Interests
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - The EU-Led MPIA
An Attempt to Rescue the WTO Dispute Settlement
from Part II - The Tools for Stronger Enforcement of Trade Rights
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- Open Strategic Autonomy in EU Trade Policy
- Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
- Open Strategic Autonomy in EU Trade Policy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I EU Trade Policy and Its Constraints
- Part II The Tools for Stronger Enforcement of Trade Rights
- 4 The EU-Led MPIA
- 5 The Amended Trade Enforcement Regulation
- 6 The Anti-Coercion Instrument
- 7 Enforcement of the FTA TSD Chapters
- Part III The Tools for Assertive Representation of EU Interests
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
As the EU seeks to continue reaping the benefits of multilateral trade and to restore and reform the WTO dispute settlement mechanism, Chapter 4 focuses on the EU-led alternative created for the appellate stage: the Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA), which ensures that its parties can continue using the two-stage WTO dispute settlement mechanism without panel reports being sent into the void by regular appeals. The chapter introduces the pertinent WTO rules and the MPIA and assesses the arrangement’s compliance with the former. To ensure that the MPIA can indeed live up to EU’s ambition to ensure assertive enforcement of multilateral trade rights, it evaluates whether the MPIA is likely to provide security, predictability, and high-quality rewards while also helping to unlock the WTO dispute settlement crisis. Then, the chapter assesses whether the MPIA could be blocked by an unwilling party, thereby jeopardizing the operation of the MPIA. Finally, to be able to weigh in on the ability of the MPIA to contribute to solving the crisis or rather to undermine the WTO multilateral system, it considers the MPIA’s broader geopolitical implications.
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- Open Strategic Autonomy in EU Trade PolicyAssessing the Turn to Stronger Enforcement and More Robust Interest Representation, pp. 125 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024