International Trade Law: Problems, Cases, and Materials

Abstract

Substantially revised and reorganized, this fourth edition of International Trade Law: Cases, Problems, and Materials (2022) takes full account of the revolutionary developments in this field of law stemming from the U.S. boycott of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the extensive use of tariffs by the Trump administration. The authors believe that U.S. federal trade law remedies assume an even greater importance after the United States precipitated an existential crisis of the WTO by causing the paralysis of its dispute settlement system. This new edition takes an approach that appears to be unique among all similar textbooks: an emphasis on U.S. domestic trade laws against a full background of WTO law to provide the student with a deep and sophisticated understanding of U.S. trade laws and their relationship to the WTO. To this end, this edition emphasizes U.S. domestic law trade laws and remedies, including national security tariffs, section 301 tariffs to combat foreign unfair trade practices, antidumping and countervailing duties, export controls and trade sanctions. This book also offers full analysis of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement. Comprehensive coverage of U.S. domestic trade law is set against the background of the international law rules of the WTO in a compact book of about 700 pages. The attached document contains the preface and a table of contents for the fourth edition.