IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/rsc/rsceui/2014-108.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

EC – Seal Products: Seals and Sensibilities (TBT Aspects of the Panel and Appellate Body Reports)

Author

Listed:
  • Philip I. Levy
  • Donald H. Regan

Abstract

The EC-Seals case stemmed from complaints by Canada and Norway against European Union regulations that effectively banned the importation and marketing of seal products from those countries. The EU said it had responded to European moral outrage at the killing of seals. Canada and Norway challenged the regime under various provisions of the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement and the GATT. This analysis looks primarily at the WTO panel decision and considers issues such as whether there is any bright line to be drawn between legitimate and illegitimate purposes in regulation and the proper legal meaning of a “technical regulation.”

Suggested Citation

  • Philip I. Levy & Donald H. Regan, 2014. "EC – Seal Products: Seals and Sensibilities (TBT Aspects of the Panel and Appellate Body Reports)," RSCAS Working Papers 2014/108, European University Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:rsc:rsceui:2014/108
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/33774/RSCAS_2014_108.pdf?sequence=1
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/33774
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Conconi, Paola & Voon, Tania, 2016. "EC–Seal Products: The Tension between Public Morals and International Trade Agreements," World Trade Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 15(2), pages 211-234, April.
    2. Bown, Chad P. & Brewster, Rachel, 2017. "US–COOL Retaliation: The WTO's Article 22.6 Arbitration," World Trade Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 16(2), pages 371-394, April.
    3. Bown, Chad & Crowley, Meredith A., 2016. "The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy," CEPR Discussion Papers 11216, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    4. Sonntag, Winnie & Spiller, Achim, 2016. "Prozessqualitäten in der WTO: Ein Vorschlag für die reliable Messung von moralischen Bedenken," DARE Discussion Papers 1603, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development (DARE).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    TBT; TBT 2.1; Technical Regulation; EC - Seal Products; Public Morals and Trade; Even-handedness;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F5 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy
    • K2 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rsc:rsceui:2014/108. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: RSCAS web unit (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/rsiueit.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.