Special and differential treatment for developing countries

1
Special and differential treatment for developing
countries

• at the beginning little attention to devt
  problems
• modifications to GATT 1947 (art.XXVIII)
• decolonisation and growing power of DCs UN
  declarations
• the non-aligned movement, the Group of 77, UNCTAD
• introduction of GATT part IV
• the concept of non reciprocity

2
Special and differential treatment for developing
countries

• the 1971 derogation to the MFN
• generalised systems of preferences (GSP)
• the Enabling clause
• The Charter of economic rights and duties of
  States and the Declaration on the Establishment
  of a New Intl Economic Order
• WTO and DCs

3
The EC and ACP countries

• Yaoundé and Lomé Conventions
• derogation to the MFN and concession of a waiver
• The Cotonou Agreement and the EPAs
• the banana war

4
GSP schemes

• common characteristics to national schemes
• the dispute between India and the EC
• the problems relating to the drug regime
• the possibility of discriminating according to
  the Appellate Body report