scholarly journals ASEAN Single Market: Revisiting Rules and Strategies on the Enforcement of Free Flow of Goods in ASEAN

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Riyad Febrian Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Dispute Settlement Mechanism ◽  
Normative Study ◽  
Member States ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Peak Points ◽  
To Come ◽  
Settlement Mechanism

Whether we are ready or not, people in Indonesia and the rest of Southeastern Asia will soon welcome the ASEAN Economic Communities (AEC) by the end 2015. Therefore, there are needs to evaluate the progress in ASEAN rules and strategies thus far. By employing normative study, this paper finds and further recommends the following: Firstly, ASEAN almost reached its peak points in eliminating the tariff barriers, yet to come are the elimination on ‘sensitive’ and ‘highly sensitive list’ tariffs on imported agriculture commodities; Secondly, Non-Tariff Barriers (NTB) remain to be one of the major problems in intra-ASEAN trades; Thirdly, Member States reluctances to invoke the ASEAN dispute settlement mechanism for their trading disputes may potentially hinder the effectiveness of AEC in the future; and Finally, the protection of intellectual property remains low in the region as the ASEAN Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Action plan 2011-2015 is still deemed ineffective to reforms the IP regulations within Member States.

scholarly journals ASEAN Single Market: Revisiting Rules and Strategies on the Enforcement of Free Flow of Goods in ASEAN

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Riyad Febrian Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Dispute Settlement Mechanism ◽  
Normative Study ◽  
Member States ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Peak Points ◽  
To Come ◽  
Settlement Mechanism

Whether we are ready or not, people in Indonesia and the rest of Southeastern Asia will soon welcome the ASEAN Economic Communities (AEC) by the end 2015. Therefore, there are needs to evaluate the progress in ASEAN rules and strategies thus far. By employing normative study, this paper finds and further recommends the following: Firstly, ASEAN almost reached its peak points in eliminating the tariff barriers, yet to come are the elimination on ‘sensitive’ and ‘highly sensitive list’ tariffs on imported agriculture commodities; Secondly, Non-Tariff Barriers (NTB) remain to be one of the major problems in intra-ASEAN trades; Thirdly, Member States reluctances to invoke the ASEAN dispute settlement mechanism for their trading disputes may potentially hinder the effectiveness of AEC in the future; and Finally, the protection of intellectual property remains low in the region as the ASEAN Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Action plan 2011-2015 is still deemed ineffective to reforms the IP regulations within Member States.

More combative US moves raise risk of a ‘trade war’

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Market Access ◽  
False Alarms ◽  
Dispute Settlement Mechanism ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Trade War ◽  
Intellectual Property Theft ◽  
Settlement Mechanism

Significance Sharp rhetoric from President Donald Trump and his officials is raising the prospect of a trade war. Following a year of false alarms and intra-administration conflict, signs point to escalation of the increasingly protectionist US agenda, particularly towards China. Impacts The seventh NAFTA round will begin on February 26 -- services market access and the dispute settlement mechanism are the trickiest topics. Even if there is a NAFTA deal, it could struggle to pass Congress. China is ready to retaliate, both against prospective steel and aluminium tariffs and any punishment for intellectual property theft.

Dispute Settlement Mechanism in a Mixed-Mixed Agreement: Some Loose Ends. The Economic Partnership Agreement EU–ECOWAS–WAEMU

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-334
Author(s):  
Gloria Fernández Arribas
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
West African ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Dispute Settlement Mechanism ◽  
Member States ◽  
Economic Partnership Agreement ◽  
Economic Partnership ◽  
Partnership Agreement ◽  
Settlement Mechanism ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The EU has developed an important practice regarding partnership agreements that has reached a new stage with mixed-mixed partnership agreements, in which the EU and its Member States are party to an agreement with another international organization and its Member States. Many issues may arise from these kinds of agreements, but this article focuses on the dispute settlement mechanism included in the Economic Partnership Agreement among the EU, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and their Member States. The agreement establishes different options for dispute settlement and determining and implementing these dispute settlement mechanisms may give rise to conflicts of law, the overlapping of courts’ competences, and conflicts of competences between the organizations and their Member States or among the Member States. The EU already has a practice in place for resolving these problems, but such a mechanism is lacking in the practices of the ECOWAS and WAEMU.

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