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Editors’ Introduction: Trade, Animal Welfare, and Indigenous Communities: A Symposium on the WTO EC—Seal Products Case

Part of: WTO EC-Seal Products Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Alexia Herwig  and
Gregory Shaffer
Alexia Herwig
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp
Gregory Shaffer
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine School of Law
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Symposium: WTO EC-Seal Products Case
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AJIL Unbound , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 282 - 286
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

References

1 Appellate Body Report, European Communities—Measures Prohibiting the Importation and Marketing of Seal Products, WT/DS400/AB/R, WT/DS401/AB/R (Adopted June 18, 2014).

2 Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, Apr. 15, 1994,Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, Annex 1A, 1868 UNTS 120.

3 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994,Apr. 15, 1994,Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, Annex 1A, 1867 UNTS 187.

4 Gregory Shaffer & David Pabian, The WTO EC-Seal Products Decision: Animal Welfare, Indigenous Communities and Trade, 109 AJIL 154(2015).

5 Robert L. Howse et al., Pluralism in Practice: Moral Legislation and the Law of the WTO AfterSeal Products, 48 Geo.Wash.Int’l L. Rev. 81 (2015).

6 Panel Report, European Communities—Measures Prohibiting the Importation and Marketing of Seal Products,para. 7.53,WT/DS400/R, WT/DS401/R (Adopted June 18, 2014).

7 See, for instance, Ming Du, Treatment No Less Favourable and the Future of National Treatment Obligation in Article III:4 of the GATT 1994 after EC—Seal Products, 15 World Trade Rev. 139 (2016). For an argument that regulatory purpose still matters after EC—Seal Products because of the centrality of the concept of competition in the nondiscrimination obligation, see Alexia Herwig, Competition, Not Regulation —Or Regulated Competition? No Regulatory Purpose Test Under the Less Favourable Treatment Standard of GATT Article III:4 Following EC-Seal Products, 3 Eur.J.Risk Reg. 1 (2015).

8 Appellate Body Report, United States—Measures Affecting the Production and Sale of Clove Cigarettes, WT/DS206/AB/R (Adopted Apr. 24, 2013).

9 Appellate Body Report, Brazil—Measures Affecting Imports of Retreaded Tyres, WT/332/AB/R (Adopted Dec. 17, 2007).

10 Appellate Body Report, United States—Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products,WT/DS58/AB/R (Adopted Nov. 6, 1998).

11 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, GARes. 61/295 (Oct. 2, 2007).