International Trade Law

A Congressional Research Service primer on where trade obligations come from, covering GATT, the WTO agreements, bilateral deals and the domestic statutes that implement them. It explains tariff and non-tariff barriers in plain legal language.

Emily C. Barbour

An FAO legislative study on how WTO rules land in national agricultural law, covering sanitary measures, subsidies and market access commitments. Three country cases show what legal and institutional reform actually requires.

Victor Mosoti and Ambra Gobena

A detailed legal and economic analysis of national treatment under Article III of GATT, the rule that stops countries from taxing or regulating imports worse than domestic goods. Written for the American Law Institute project on world trade law.

Gene M. Grossman, Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis