International export regulations and controls: Navigating the global framework beyond WTO rules

Description :

Measures such as prohibitions, export licences and restrictions assist in risk management and the regulation of trade in controlled and sensitive goods. They are established pursuant to international agreements and conventions on protecting people and the environment, on controlling drugs and harmful substances, and on contributing to international peace and weapons controls. This publication explores how particular international agreements and conventions operate in practice and how they link to the multilateral trading system.

Prepared or reviewed by the secretariats and implementing bodies of the relevant international agreements and conventions, the chapters delve into the export-related controls covered by these legal instruments and how these restrictions tie in with WTO agreements. The agreements and conventions included in this publication were selected on the basis of three criteria: the presence of provisions in the agreement or convention that seek to regulate exports; the extent to which WTO members are party to those provisions; and how often members refer to them in their notifications submitted to the WTO Secretariat.

The aim of the publication is to provide a better understanding of how international agreements and conventions regulate the export of high-risk and controlled goods and how these regulations co-exist with WTO rules.

Published September 2023 | 146 pages | 255 x 178 mm | Weight: 0.500 kg

CONTENTS

> Foreword
> Introduction
Export restrictions and regulations under WTO agreements

Part 1 Environmental protection
> Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
By the CITES Secretariat
> Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
By the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
> OECD Decision of the Council on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Wastes Destined for Recovery
By the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
> Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
Reviewed by the Ozone Secretariat

Part 2 Drugs control
> International drug control conventions (1961, 1971 and 1988 Conventions)
By the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
> WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products
By the World Health Organization

Part 3 Weapons and disarmament
> Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and their Destruction
By the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
> Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies
By the Wassenaar Arrangement Secretariat
> Missile Technology Control Regime
By the Missile Technology Control Regime
> Arms Trade Treaty
By the Arms Trade Treaty Secretariat
> Australia Group
By the Australia Group Secretariat
> United Nations Security Council resolutions and export controls
Reviewed by the United Nations Security Council

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