Law and Politics on Export Restrictions WTO and Beyond Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law Series

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.

1. Introduction; 2. WTO rules on export restrictions; 3. Governing export restrictions: national security and international political economy; 4. Export restrictions in the global supply chain: investment and competition; 5. Conclusion: reconfiguring global supply chain in the post-COVID-19 era; Bibliography.

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).