Assignment:
The assigned case study is from Deveraux, Lawrence and Watkins, Case Studies in US Trade Negotiation, Volume 2: Resolving Disputes. Attached the book, The assigned case study is the case study "Brazil's WTO Cotton Case: Negotiation Through Litigation" on page 235-282.
Requirements:
Each of you will develop a 3 page single- space paper, (separate from your reference list) that will focus on the following:
1. Discuss and summarize your assigned case.
2. In the process discuss who are all the parties involved and why you think the case was brought to the WTO?
3. What was the main WTO rule that was breached or challenged?
4. Did the WTO successfully navigate the dispute and bring resolution to the process?
Once you have completed the above, in addition, your paper must do the following.
5. Go the WTO website and find the dispute settlements page. Since the cases in the book are slightly old, update and provide some more recent information pertaining to this case or to a similar case, similar product, or similar set of issues brought before the WTO
6. Bring in at least one scholarly reference sources to bolster your case or answer some of the questions and/or to provide additional facts or information directly or indirectly related to the case or to the bullet point below. You may also find reference material at the WTO website.
7. What ideas, concepts, theories, models that we have developed in this class or in the textbook does your case seem to touch upon? Identify, underscore and reference sections of the case that relate to class lectures and material and/or the textbook Also attached the textbook.
Readings:
1. Case Studies in U.S. Trade Negotiation
By Charan Devereaux and Robert Z. Lawrence
2 International Trade
By Robert C. Feenstra and Alan M. Taylor