The study highlights the serious potential of conflicts of WTO/GATS norms between obligations to liberalize capital movements and capital account regulations, and that while soft law may provide helpful guidelines in some cases, it is incapable of resolving such conflicts of norms definitely—whereas precisely such a definite resolution is what is needed for dispute settlement purposes.

How to Make the GATS a Code of Conduct for Capital Controls

VITERBO, Annamaria
2013-01-01

Abstract

The study highlights the serious potential of conflicts of WTO/GATS norms between obligations to liberalize capital movements and capital account regulations, and that while soft law may provide helpful guidelines in some cases, it is incapable of resolving such conflicts of norms definitely—whereas precisely such a definite resolution is what is needed for dispute settlement purposes.
2013
Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review
Boston University - The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
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9781936727087
http://www.bu.edu/pardee/car-task-force/
WTO; GATS; capital controls
Annamaria Viterbo
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