{"id":218339,"date":"2010-01-13T18:24:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T23:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtradelaw.typepad.com\/ielpblog\/2010\/01\/the-wto-seal-products-dispute-a-preview-of-the-legal-issues.html"},"modified":"2010-01-13T18:24:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T23:24:15","slug":"the-wto-seal-products-dispute-a-preview-of-the-legal-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218339","title":{"rendered":"The WTO Seal Products Dispute: A Preview of the Legal Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is an ASIL Insight<\/a> I did on the Seal Products dispute, previewing the legal issues.  (Keep in mind that I only had 2,000 words, so it's a fairly brief preview!)  An excerpt:<\/p>\n

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One might expect that core WTO principles, such as non-discrimination and necessity, would have clear legal standards. However, trade adjudicators have gone back and forth over the years on the issue of non-discrimination, while the \u201cnecessity\u201d standard has evolved and has yet to be examined in the TBT Agreement context. There is a great deal of uncertainty as to how a WTO panel would address these issues in the context of the seal products ban in dispute. Thus, the outcome of a panel dispute would be far from sure.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In related news<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Canadian Inuit have filed a lawsuit in the European General Court to overturn EU legislation which would ban the import of seal products into EU countries. The lawsuit seeks annulment of Regulation (EC) No 1007\/2009 of the European Parliament and Council of September 16, 2009 on trade in seal products.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here is an ASIL Insight I did on the Seal Products dispute, previewing the legal issues.  (Keep in mind that I only had 2,000 words, so it's a fairly brief preview!)  An excerpt: One might expect that core WTO principles, such as non-discrimination and necessity, would have clear legal standards. However, trade adjudicators have gone back and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}