International Trade Law (WTO, GATT, GATS, TRIPS) and India By Prof Jyoti Rattan,Anshula Rattan Atre 2nd Edition Dec 2025

International Trade Law (WTO, GATT, GATS, TRIPS) and India By Prof Jyoti Rattan,Anshula Rattan Atre 2nd Edition Dec 2025

International Trade Law (WTO, GATT, GATS, TRIPS) and India By Prof Jyoti Rattan,Anshula Rattan Atre 2nd Edition Dec 2025

International Trade Law, which includes the rules and customs governing trade between different countries, has always been a challenging area and is generally found to be technical and difficult to grasp by law researchers who are new to the subject.

International Trade Law from the legal perspective, in a simple, user-friendly, and easily understandable form in this book. It is the most up-to-date book consisting of international conventions for trade by air, sea & land, INCOTERM, WTO, and various related international trade agreements like GATT, GATS, TRIPS, TRIMs, and other related agreements.

It also mentions the Indian position, i.e., actions taken by India to make Indian laws in tune with these international trade agreements. The first edition of this book was submitted to the Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights Research, Reggio Calabria, Italy, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of the International Post-Doctoral Programme in “New Technologies and Law’ 2023

Important case laws and numerous examples have been incorporated wherever relevant to clarify and simplify the topics. I am sure that all readers will find this edition quite useful in their studies.

Content of the Book is as follows –

• United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, 1980) (CISG)
• The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT)
• The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (UNIDROIT PICC or UPICC)
• International Commercial Terms (INCOTERMS)
• International Rules regulating Sea Carriage
• International Rules Regulating Air Carriage
• International Trade Finance
• GATT & WTO
• The WTO Agreements
• The WTO Principles
• The WTO Ministerial Conferences & Doha Round
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 1994 & Brief Overview of Thirteen Sectoral Agreements that Govern Trade in Goods [Annex 1A]:
• Non-discrimination Provisions of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 1994
• Agreement on Agriculture (AOA)
• Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement)
• Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs)
• Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
• Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM)
• Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1994 (Anti-dumping)
• Agreement on Implementation of Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1994 (Customs Valuation)
• Agreement on Safeguards 1994
• Special and Differential Treatment
• Agreement on Rules of Origin, 1994
• Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures, 1994
• The Agreement on Trade Facilitation, 1994
• Agreement on Pre-shipment Inspection (PSI), 1994
• General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
• General Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS)
• Dispute Resolution Mechanism of the WTO
• Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM)
• Plurilateral Trade Agreements
• 30 years of the WTO: Achievements and Challenges

About the Author 

Prof. Dr. Jyoti Rattan, Professor, Department of Laws, Panjab University, Chandigarh holds a Post-Doc in Law, Ph.D. in Law, M.Sc. in Chemistry and is a Gold Medallist in LL.M., besides B.Sc. and LL.B. She did her Ph.D. in Law as a University Grants Commission (UGC) Senior Research F Fellow.