Description: Delving into export restrictive measures this book links the key areas of WTO law, public international law, investment and competition law to expose how and why WTO rules on export dimension are insufficient due to export bias; how public international law helps to justify their adoption or maintenance; and how investment and competition laws contribute to their regulation. Built on works on accession protocols and national security exceptions, this book goes beyond international trade law and looks into international political economy, competition and investment law. It contributes to debates in conceptualising public and private forms of export restrictions, appreciating the complementary nature of trade and competition law in disciplining them; capturing the dynamic between trade and investment policies for their effectuation and circumvention; and bridging trade law and public international law to better understand their impositions for political and diplomatic purposes with the invocation of the national security justification.
Brief description: Chien-Huei Wu earned his doctoral degree in EUI in 2009 and was awarded Ta-You Wu Memorial Award in 2014. He published WTO and the Greater China: Economic Integration and Dispute Resolution (2012) and co-edited Law and Diplomacy in the Management of EU-Asia Trade and Investment Relations (2019).
Review Quotes: 'Amid rising populist protectionism and the Covid-19 pandemic, export restrictions have become an intensely debated topic in law and international relations. While export restrictions have been mostly assessed through the lens of the national security exception under the WTO regime, the legal issues go beyond the trade law dimension. ... the book fills the gap in the existing literature by providing a comprehensive account of regulatory frameworks and case studies involving export restrictions.' Pasha L. Hsieh, Asian Journal of International Law