Dispute Settlement Decisions: Bernan's Annotated Reporter: Decisions Reported 20 December 2007 - 21 December 2007 (Volume 89)

Dispute settlement decisions (DSD) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are presented with the aid of extensive annotations, in-depth analysis, and comprehensive summaries of case histories. The extensive index in each volume enables access to particular titles.Legal precedents and conclusions are detailed in the legal annotations and conclusions sections. Case and treaty citations, along with current information on the overall status of all disputes before the WTO are presented in two tables. Current interpretations of the various treaties that govern international trade law contain full-text decisions. Starting with Volume 78, published in February 2007, Bernan is collaborating with international trade experts from Bryan Cave LLP to produce enhanced editions of the WTO DSD. The editors for this series are Felipe Berer and Jackson C. Pai. Messrs. Berer and Pai are Senior Trade Policy Advisors working out of the Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles offices of Bryan Cave LLP. They assist clients in the analysis of cross-border trade rules and trade agreements, including the implications of U.S. bilateral and regional trade agreements and WTO rules. Mr. Berer has also assisted in trade remedy investigations, WTO proceedings and trade policy developments in the United States and Latin America.These volumes contain in-depth analysis that includes market implications for the various industries and nations affected. This expert commentary makes this series truly invaluable for all companies that do business internationally, law firms with a trade practice, government agencies with a focus on trade, and academic institutions with related courses of study.Volume 89 includes dispute case DS344 which concerns a series of final anti-dumping determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding imports of stainless steel from Mexico and dispute case DS285 which involves recourse to arbitration by the United States concerning measures affecting the cross border supply of gambling and betting services.