Belgian Family Allowances and the Challenge of Origin-based Discrimination

Steve Charnovitz

Chapter 7 in The Path of World Trade Law in the 21st Century, 2014, pp 249-278 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Our symposium in honor of Professor Robert E. Hudec examines the issue of non-discrimination in trade rules. The non-discrimination rule to be explored here is Article I (General Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment) of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). In particular, this study examines the decision in Belgian Family Allowances, a 1952 GATT panel report that Hudec explored in his influential 1975 treatise The GATT Legal System and World Trade Diplomacy. Indeed, Belgian Family Allowances is his longest case study. This holding was the first occasion for a GATT panel to rule that a violation had occurred…

Keywords: International Law; Environment; Global Law; World Trade; International Organization; Labor Law; Sustainable Development; Labor Relations; WTO; International Migration; Discrimination; International Governance; Globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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