MILE 12 Week 34: Customs and Trade Facilitation (cont'd.) / Selected Seminars

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Trade in Finance
The course will cover one of the five functions of the WTO, as set out by section III.5 of the WTO Agreement, namely Policy Coherence between the WTO and other international organizations, in particular the IMF and the World Bank. One of the focus of the Coherence Mandate from the WTO perspective is the relationship between financial and monetary developments around the world, on the one hand, and trade and trade policies on the other. The event of financial crises, including the most recent one in 2008/2009 have severe consequences on global trade flows and exert pressures on national trade policies with requests for increased protectionism. The course will provide concrete examples of coordinated policy responses (the G-20 trade finance initiative, the trade policy monitoring mechanism) to deflect the impact of financial crises on trade. Besides, on-going exchange rate fluctuations and their impact on trade will be discussed, particularly in the context of WTO and IMF existing provisions and coherence mechanisms.

Settling International Economic Disputes
The growing trend in international economic transactions yields benefits but at the same time poses challenges. One of the most significant challenges is the handling of disputes arising from such transactions. The issue becomes increasingly complex given the diversity of economic matters that are interrelated, the multiplicity of possible jurisdictions, and the potential conflict of applicable laws. This course presents an overview of international economic disputes from a business and legal strategy perspectives. It focuses on practical considerations to handle this type of disputes and the question of choice of forum, with particular emphasis on trade disputes.

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German

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Joel Reeves, Jin Glover

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MILE Fellows

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+41 31 631 36 28

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joel.reeves@wti.org
jin.glover@wti.org

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