Overview
- A major contribution to the international dialogue on international economic law issues with respect to trade in natural resources and energy
- Explains in detail how international trade rules apply to natural resources, energy and climate changed-related products
- Discusses how rules of international treaties on trade and investment apply to the new laws and policies related to energy-related trade
Part of the book series: Economics, Law, and Institutions in Asia Pacific (ELIAP)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Law and Policy on Natural Resources in Selected Asian Countries
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Export Restrictions and WTO Agreements
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Free Trade Agreements and Natural Resources
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Competition Law Issues Relating to Exportation of Natural Resources
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About this book
This book seeks to answer the questions: how do the rules of international treaties on trade and investment apply to the new laws and policies relating to energy-related trade, and do the rules of the multilateral system contribute to or detract from sustainable development? An emerging set of new problems in the law of international trade is how to reconcile the rules of the multilateral trading system with shortages of certain natural resources and the necessity to develop renewable energy resources.
The chapters in this book provide a comprehensive analysis of the international trade issues presented by national trade laws and policies with regard to natural resources and energy. This book is about the extent to which we are interpreting existing rules to cover emerging problems and how the rules of the multilateral trading system can be adapted to achieve sustainable development in natural resources and energy.
The book begins with a survey of selected national laws relating to recent restrictions on the export of natural resources, both resources used to produce energy as well as natural resources essential for industrial production. After examining the range of such laws in selected important countries, we turn to the application of the rules of the multilateral trading system to such export restrictions. We discuss the major rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as well as the natural resources rules in selected regional preferential free trade agreements. While there is not a comprehensive global legal regime on competition law, we believe it is also important to examine how selected national competition laws impact export restrictions on natural resources.
This book will be a major contribution to the international dialogue on international economic law issues with respect to trade in natural resources and energy.Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emerging Issues in Sustainable Development
Book Subtitle: International Trade Law and Policy Relating to Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment
Editors: Mitsuo Matsushita, Thomas J. Schoenbaum
Series Title: Economics, Law, and Institutions in Asia Pacific
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56426-3
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Japan KK 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56424-9Published: 13 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56781-3Published: 16 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-56426-3Published: 05 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2199-8620
Series E-ISSN: 2199-8639
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 402
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Business Law, International Economic Law, Trade Law, International Environmental Law