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Crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system - MPIA
Červinka, František ; Šturma, Pavel (advisor) ; Urbanová, Kristýna (referee)
The Dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization is in a crisis. The demise of the Appellate Body signals tough times for the multilateral trading system. The Appellate Body is now devoid of its adjudicators, their appointment blocked by the US. The celebrated system of dispute resolution has been crippled. Evolving since the second world war it saw many iterations. The first goal of this thesis is to explore the nature of the different dispute settlement regimes of the ITO, the GATT and the WTO and determine whether they constitute a judicial or a diplomatic system. The second goal of this thesis is to analyze the Appellate Body crisis. With no resolution in sight, a group of members agreed to sign the Multi-party Interim Appeals Arrangement (MPIA), resorting to arbitration in place of the non- functioning Appellate Body. The US has raised numerous objections to the practice of the Appellate Body and the thesis shall touch upon a number of them with a thorough discussion, mainly on the extent of its authority and the limits of its functioning. The thesis will examine the criticism of the US, counterarguments and whether the MPIA rectifies any of the perceived shortcomings. Key Words: Multilateral Trading System, the World Trade Organization, the Appellate Body, the MPIA, dispute...
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Activities of the World trade oranization- actual problems
Macháček, Jakub ; Plchová, Božena (advisor) ; Halík, Jaroslav (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to describe and analyze activities of the World trade organization. The thesis is divided into four chapters, which are related to the WTO. The first chapter decribes the multilateral trading system. The second chapter focuses on the trade policy and its tools. The third chapter summarises activities of the GATT and WTO from its foundation to the present. The last chapter is devoted to the European Union in the WTO.
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Analysis of the WTO Dispute DS 335 (US Antidumping Measure on Shrimp from Ecuador)
Rundová, Dana ; Štěrbová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Machková, Hana (referee)
Bachelor dissertation analyzes in detail the WTO dispute DS 335 on US antidumping measure on shrimp imports from Ecuador and particularly the practice of "zeroing". The thesis places the dispute in the context of international trade in shrimp, analyzes reasons that led to its opening, i.e. differences between the rules for the antidumping investigation set in the WTO Antidumping Agreement and the rules in force in the US. The thesis evaluates, above all, the consequences resulting from the dispute for the parties as well as the international trade, since the Panel Report was issued until present.
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