This comprehensive work explains clearly and thoroughly all the provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). It examines the Agreement article by article and also steers practitioners through the case law based upon it.
For each Article it examines the relevant business issues, explains the meaning of the Article, discusses all interpreventive and adjudicatory decisions that bear upon it, and also discusses alternative theoretical underpinnings of the Article. Areas of uncertainty and ambiguity are highlighted throughout.