Module Identifier | LAM3420 | ||
Module Title | REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Professor Ryszard W Piotrowicz | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Assessment | Semester Assessment | written assignments 1 X 6,000 words or 2 X 3,000 words [40% each) | 80% |
Semester Assessment | oral presentation | 20% | |
Supplementary Assessment | resubmit course work | 100% | |
Professional Exemptions | Not Required for Professional Purposes |
2. Substantive Foundations
· The most favoured nation principle and exceptions
· National treatment
· Tariffs and tariff concessions
· Non-tariff barriers, quantitative restrictions, technical barriers to trade
3. Regional Trade Agreements and Customs Unions
4. Antidumping Law
5. Countervailing Duty Law
6. Safeguards and Escape Mechanisms
7. Intellectual Property and GATS
8. Dispute Settlement
9. International commercial transactions
· Public and private systems distinguished
· Rationale for international business
· Difficulties in doing international business
· Differences in legal systems
· International institutions and international business
10. International sale of goods: the contract of sale
· Sale of Goods Act 1979
· International harmonisation: Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods
http://cisgw3.law.pace.edu/
http://www.jura.uni-freiburg.de/ipr1/cisg/default.htm
11. Construction of international sales contracts
· ICC
· Incoterms 1990
· CIF contracts
· FOB contracts
· Charterparties
· Bills of lading - characteristics and classification
· Electronic date interchange
· CMI rules on electronic bills of lading
12. International carriage of goods
· Carriage by land
· Carriage by air
· Carriage by sea - methods of performance - rights of suit - Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 and the Hague-Visby Rules - Hamburg Rules - Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992
· Multimodal transport
13. Financing of international trade
· International legal framework
· Documentary credits
· Bills of exchange
· Electronic commerce
14. Conflict of laws
· Jurisdiction at common law
· Jurisdiction: Brussels and Lugano Conventions
· Basic terms in conflict of laws
· Bills of exchange