The Chapeau of the General Exceptions in the WTO Gatt and Gats Agreements

A Reconstruction

Bibliographic Data

ID9541562
AuthorsLorand Bartels (0000-0003-2426-7319, University of Cambridge, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume109
Issue1
Pages95-125
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of International Law (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9300 • E-ISSN: 2161-7953
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5305/amerjintelaw.109.1.0095
OpenAlexW3123824794
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited6

One of the most important issues in the law of the World Trade Organization is the right of WTO members to adopt measures for nontrade purposes. In the WTO’s General Agreement. on Tariffs and Trade (GATT 1994) and General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), this right is secured in general exceptions provisions, which permit WTO members to adopt measures to achieve certain objectives, notwithstanding any other provisions of these agreements and also, in some cases, other WTO agreements. These objectives include, most importantly, the protection of public morals, the maintenance of public order, the protection of human, animal, or plant life or health, the enforcement of certain domestic laws, and the conservation of exhaustible natural resources

Business · Economics · Enforcement · General Agreement on Trade in Services · International trade · Law and economics · Order (exchange · Political science · Public order · World trade · Law · World Trade Organization Law

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