Course title

Multilateral Trade Regulation

Code

 INT 420

Professor

Prof. Katerina Toshevska-Trpchevska PhD

Course objectives (competences):

After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Understand the importance of international trade regulation, especially the meaning of the Vienna Convention for international sales of goods;
• Understand the compatibility of the domestic trade law with the international trade law;
• Analyze the possible disputes and misunderstandings when member-countries apply regulations and policies that are not compatible with the rules and regulations of the World Trade Organization. 

Types of sources of international trade regulation. Regulating international sales of goods. Vienna Convention for international sales of goods. Sales contract. Case studies: WTO. Customs, quotas and other market access barriers. Subsidies and countervailing duties. Antidumping. Safeguards. Technical barriers to trade. Sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures. Agriculture. Trade in services.  Intellectual property. Regionalism. Dispute Settlement Mechanism.