EU Trade Barrier Regulation 2nd ed

The Trade Barrier Regulation (TBR) is Europe's way of removing obstacles to trade, ensuring the countries abide by the rules of international trade, and providing procedures for resolving international trade disputes. Its procedures interface directly with World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules and, therefore, affect all countries, which are subject to WTO rules and agreements.

This second edition provides detailed analysis of all aspects of the TBR's influence on manufacturing industry, trade-in services, technical barriers, intellectual property rights and trade investments. It offers a practical perspective on the substantive and procedural provisions of the Regulation and an examination of key decisions arising from it.

• Provides a complete guide to the EU Trade Barrier Regulation (TBR)
• Examines substantive law, procedures and policy issues
• Analyses the TBR's influence on individual commercial sectors
• Steers practitioners through procedures under the TBR for resolving international trade disputes
• Shows how the TBR inter-relates with World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules
• Discusses the implications of recent EU case law and WTO jurisprudence
• Incorporates important recent studies on the TBR as an instrument of trade policy