Module Identifier | LAM3420 | ||||||||||||||
Module Title | REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE | ||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2004/2005 | ||||||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Professor Ryszard W Piotrowicz | ||||||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||||||||||||||
Assessment |
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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
This module is at CQFW Level 7