杨淑君:北京大学法学院博士研究生。研究方向:国际经济法。
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作为WTO协议附件1A的协议,TBT和GATT都规定了成员方的国民待遇义务,两者在适用范围上有一定的交叉,如果申诉方同时提起这两项协议项下有关国民待遇义务的申诉请求,争端解决机构就可能面临累积适用两项规则或者适用其中一项规则的选择。根据广义的冲突定义,这两项规则之间存在潜在的冲突,虽然争端解决机构可以依据司法经济原则避免冲突的产生,但是更好地避免冲突的路径是依据相关的冲突规则选择其中一项规则排除另一项规则的适用。
As the agreements under the WTO Agreement Annex 1, both the TBT and the GATT have provisions about national treatment obligations of the Members. The two agreements have overlaps in application scope, so it is possible that when Members file claims under both agreements regarding national treatment clauses, the disputing tribunal might face the choice of applying the two provisions accumulatively or applying one of them exclusively. There is potential conflict between the two provisions in terms of the broad definition of conflict. The tribunal could avoid such conflict by judicial economy, but the better way is to apply one provision while excluding the other in accordance with relevant conflict rule in the WTO Agreement.
杨淑君.浅谈TBT与GATT国民待遇原则的选择适用问题[J].上海对外经贸大学学报,2014,(1):28-39.
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