what are the future of internatinal trade law?
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The Model United Nations Alumni Society will host James J. Patton, Esq., adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, as the first speaker of the 2006 Global Affairs Lecture Series on Monday, Feb. 20 at 6 p.m. at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). His topic will be international trade law and related contemporary issues.\n\nIn a prepared statement to the press, Patton said, “International trade and our government’s policies towards economic engagement with the world are critical drivers of both improving quality of life in financial terms and increasing global stability in a period of increasing uncertainty.”\n\nPatton is the Acting Director of Maritime, Cargo and Trade Policy within the Department of Homeland Security, where his portfolio includes International Trade and Cargo Security issues, working in such areas as Operation Safe Commerce, Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism, Container Security Initiative, and developing private sector and international support for container security programs. He serves as Designated Federal Official for the Departmental Advisory Committee on the Commercial Operation of Customs and Border Protection and as a US delegate for World Trade Organization negotiations on trade facilitation.\n\nThe goal of the Global Affairs Lecture Series is to examine the conduct of foreign policy and to explore the configuration of forces (economic, political, social and environmental) now shaping global affairs. In so doing, the series will consider the responses of national governments, international agencies, and trans-national business and service entities.
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I would imagine so unless you forsee that within the next ten years everyone will get along and work together toward a common goal for all of humanity.  One where we live in an ideal utopia with no differences and no grudges and no disagreements and devoid of any crimes.  Yeah, like that's going to happen!  Being that as it is, I would say that a career in law will most definitely still be a lucrative occupation.  Unless of course you become a public defender.
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They will use European Law -- the European Evidence Regulation -- which replaced The Hague Convention for taking evidence abroad within the EU. This article discusses it: http://www.ejcl.org/75/art75-6.html (scroll about halfway down, to "evidence abroad")
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You may first want to contact the US Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. Their website is a good place to start, seems to have alot of useful information. Good Luck.
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GATT- it's the international trade treaty that is the governing doctrine of the WTO
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Sounds like someone is writing an essay for school.  Get thee to the (law) library and do some research!\n\nI expect a Google of MTBE will find the cases and commentary for you.  Check www.canlii.org as a starting point for case law.\n\nWhile international law is difficult, I would have to say that the previous comment is overly snide, cynical, and simplistic.  As in most areas of law, the law does lead to enforcement - even if through negotiations based on the leverage the law provides.  Softwood lumber, e.g., appears to be nearing resolution.\n\nIn the MTBE case, the enforcement mechanism is in the Canadian courts, by means of a private action.
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In the foreseeable future its India and China.\n\nYou can see that from the way long pending border disputed have been settled quickly.
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague01.htm\n\nhttp://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/ibasicdocuments/ibasictext/ibasicindex/Pacific%20settlement%20of%20disputes.htm\n\nhttp://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/ibasicdocuments/ibasictext/ibasicindex/Pacific%20settlement%20of%20disputes.htm
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Trade agreements.  It seems there is a considerable pool of labor there, as well as natural resources, and we have investment capital here.  Should be able to be useful to one another.  The more we get involved in trade, the less the politicians can mess around with their manipulations and war-mongering.  The people who benefit from trade discourage the politicians from doing anything that would disrupt the smooth flow of commerce.
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I used to work for the United States Commercial Trade Service in San Francisco, and we deal with this sort of thing all the time. We connect small businesses here in the US with international vendors. Plus, it's a free service offered by the government, for the most part. If you want specific information, then they start charging you. Their website is www.export.gov \n\nGood Luck!
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Once the military might of the USA is reduced, its dominance in the international trade and the Rule of Dollar as an international currency may also get affected. The current conflict only reflects the inter-connectivity between the military might and the international economic scenario. Coming days are very dicey and  decisive for the whole world.
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FREE trade pact?  Nothing comes free.\nJust like every other foreign country, they will find some way to stick it to us.   Never fails.
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trade between two counteries is called international trade\n\nInternational trade is the exchange of goods and services across international boundaries or territories. In most countries, it represents a significant share of GDP. While international trade has been present throughout much of history (see Silk Road, Amber Road), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries. Industrialization, advanced transportation, globalization, multinational corporations, and outsourcing are all having a major impact. Increasing international trade is the usually primary meaning of "globalization".\nTrade Series\nInternational trade\nHistory of international trade\nTrade bloc\nFree trade area\nCustoms union\n\n    Trade creation\n    Trade diversion\n\nMonetary union\nCommon market\nEconomic and monetary union\n\nInternational trade is also a branch of economics, which, together with international finance, forms the larger branch of international economics.\n\nInternational trade theory\n\nSeveral different models have been proposed to predict patterns of trade and to analyze the effects of trade policies such as tariffs.\n\n[edit] Ricardian model\n\nThe Ricardian model focuses on comparative advantage and is perhaps the most important concept in international trade theory. In a Ricardian model, countries specialize in producing what they produce best. Unlike other models, the Ricardian framework predicts that countries will fully specialize instead of producing a broad array of goods. Also, the Ricardian model does not directly consider factor endowments, such as the relative amounts of labor and capital within a country.\n\n[edit] Heckscher-Ohlin model\n\nThe Heckscher-Ohlin model was produced as an alternative to the Ricardian model of basic comparative advantage. Despite its greater complexity it did not prove much more accurate in its predictions. However from a theoretical point of view it did provide an elegant solution by incorporating the neoclassical price mechanism into international trade theory.\n\nThe theory argues that the pattern of international trade is determined by differences in factor endowments. It predicts that countries will export those goods that make intensive use of locally abundant factors and will import goods that make intensive use of factors that are locally scarce. Empirical problems with the H-O model, known as the Leontief paradox, were exposed in empirical tests by Wassily Leontief who found that the United States tended to export labor intensive goods despite having a capital abundance.\n\n[edit] Specific Factors\n\nIn this model, labour mobility between industries is possible while capital is immobile between industries in the short-run. The specific factors name refers to the given that in the short-run specific factors of production, such as physical capital, are not easily transferrable between industries. The thoery suggests that if there is an increase in the price of a good, the owners of the factor of production specific to that good will profit in real terms. Additionally, owners of opposing specific factors of production (i.e. labour and capital) are likely to have opposing agendas when lobbying for controls over immigration of labour. Conversely, both owners of capital and labour profit in real terms from an increase in the capital endowment. This model is ideal for particular industries. This model is ideal for understanding income distribution but awkward for discussing the pattern of trade.\n\n[edit] Gravity model\n\nThe Gravity model of trade presents a more empirical analysis of trading patterns rather than the more theoretical models discussed above. The gravity model, in its basic form, predicts trade based on the distance between countries and the interaction of the countries' economic sizes. The model mimics the Newtonian law of gravity which also considers distance and physical size between two objects. The model has been prove
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And lose all international cooperation? Get massive sanctions? Lose international trade as we know it? How exactly would that help?
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It'll be a major economic power, but not like a power that'll rule the world.  Those days are over.\n\nIf anything, China will be the next superpower.
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here is a report on SEZ special economic zones \nthis ll give u a brief idea\nThe centre’s move has hit the Indore SEZ, the first operational SEZ in the country. The fear is that, in the absence of pragmatism on labour issues, companies in the SEZs will never be able to compete in the international markets. “The new SEZ law is unlikely to address this critical issue of labour flexibility,” says a Morgan Stanley report. “A restrictive labour law environment has been one of the major hurdles to the development of the Indian manufacturing sector.”\n\nIt is worth noting in this context that the Left parties are taking their cues not from their counterparts in China but from the trade unions in the West. The latter have their own agenda, principally the protection of the jobs of their constituents.\n\nIs there anything to be said for the other side ? the argument that India does not have a social security system and, thus, jobs have to be protected? There is some logic on the face of it. But the protection is being granted to a minor fraction of the population ? the organised sector workforce. In welfare societies, it applies to the entire population.\n\nSo is the SEZ bill going to lead to a huge jump in foreign direct investment, exports and growth? Not in the short term. Though trade unions have been somewhat defanged these days, they can still act as roadblocks. “We are getting to where we want to go,” says an economist. “But at the Hindu rate of growth. That, thankfully, is no longer 4 per cent, but half of what we can easily achieve.”
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neither will :)\n\nwait till 2010 - expect newer and more powerful entities compared to the current ones mentioned by you!