International trade rules and the agriculture sector

United Nations course materials that collect the core legal instruments of the trading system, from the WTO agreement and GATT to the dispute settlement understanding and the services agreement, alongside landmark Appellate Body rulings.

Dr. Makane Mbengue

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

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