B.A.LL.B. Semester – VI Paper :XXXII M.

M: 100
Code: SOL/B.A.LL.B./E-04 Theory: 70
Credit-4 Sessional: 30

International Trade Law

Course Objective:
• To familiarize students with the core principles of international trade law.
• To introduce legal and institutional framework of WTO.
• To study the regulatory framework and dispute settlement mechanism in international
trade law.

Course Outcome:
• It will equip students with the ability to analyze and frame legal arguments on the
policy debates of issues relating to international trade law.
• The student will be able to identify the legality of policy decisions on the basis of the
principles of international trade law.
• The students will be equipped with the knowledge of dispute settlement mechanism in
international trade law.

UNIT-I:
Origin and Evolution of GATT & WTO.

a. Protectionism and Free Trade theories.

b. The Havana Charter & Birth of GATT, 1947.
c. GATT Rounds of Negotiation GATT 1994 & The WTO: It’s Genesis (Uruguay Round 1986 to
1994).
d. WTO Agreements, Understandings, Annexes, Membership Objective, Functions and Structure of
WTO (Key Organs/Bodies) Decision - Making Process, Voting, Amendment, Waiver etc.
e. Principle of non-discrimination.

Unit – II:
Trade in Goods I

a. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

b. Agreement on Agriculture.
c. Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.
d. Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade.

Unit-III:
Trade in Goods II
a. Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures.
b. Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.
c. Anti-dumping Agreement.
d. Agreement on Safeguards.

Unit – IV:
Trade in Services & International Trade Dispute Resolution

a. General Agreement on Trade in Services.

b. Ongoing Multilateral Negotiations.
c. Nullification or impairment.
d. Dispute settlement.
e. Enforcement and Remedies.

Suggested Readings:
• Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations:
The Legal Texts (Geneva: GATT Secretariat, 1994).
• Hudec, Robert E., Developing Countries in the GATT Legal System (London:
Gower Press for the Trade Policy Research Centre, 1987).
• Jackson, John H., World Trade and the Law of GATT (Indianapolis: Bobbs-
Merrill, 1969).
• Pratap, Ravindra, India at the WTO Dispute Settlement System (New Delhi:
Manak Publications, 2004).
• Peter Van den Bosche and Werner Zduoc, The Law and Policy of the World
Trade Organization, (CUP, 2013).
• Lester, Simon, et al, World Trade Law: Material and Commentary,
(Bloomsbury, 2018).
• Srinivasan, T. N., Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading
System: From the GATT to the Uruguay Round and the Future (Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1998).
• Kaul, Autar, A Guide to the W.T.O. and GATT: Economics, Law, and
Politics, (Kluwer Law International, 2006).
• Nedumbara, James, Injury and Causation in Trade Remedy Law: A Study of
WTO Law and Country Practices (Springer, 2016)