© International Trade Centre, International Trade Forum
- Issue 1/2001
-- Arbitration and alternative dispute resolution: How to settle
international business disputes. 266 pages. Handbook focusing on
available methods for preventing and resolving commercial disputes
- deals with different types of disputes encountered in
international trade and describes methods for preventing or
resolving them; outlines fundamental principles applicable to
international commercial arbitration; explains how to draft an
arbitration clause and provides selected model clauses; appendices
contain text of major international arbitration conventions and
rules, as well as list of arbitration institutions worldwide.
-- Executive Forum 2000: Export Development in the Digital
Economy. 125 pages. Summary of discussions held at Executive Forum
2000 on Export Development in the Digital Economy, organized by the
International Trade Centre and the Swiss State Secretariat for
Economic Affairs in Montreux, Switzerland in September 2000 -
focuses on the role and importance of the digital economy as a
factor in building and maintaining export performance in developing
countries; assesses impact of e-trade on traditional export
practices; explores how developing and transitional economies have
responded to the competitive challenges of the digital economy;
examines conditions for a national environment that will allow
sustainable and effective participation in the digital economy;
discusses the short-term initiatives required to promote
e-competency and e-trade capability within the public and private
sectors; outlines role of national trade support institutions, and
key concepts for strategy-makers addressing national response to
digital economy.
-- Business Guide to the General Agreement on Trade in Services.
Revised edition. 263 pages. Updated version of Business Guide to
the General Agreement on Trade in Services (1999). Guide to GATS
and the key features of the multilateral system of trade rules
covering services - examines rights and benefits conferred and
obligations imposed by GATS on the business community and
governments; implications for developing countries and economies in
transition; identifies main opportunities and challenges
encountered at the practical business level in the implementation
of GATS rules and market access commitments.