Harnessing Trade Law to Support Refugees and Host Countries /

The measures and the United Nations and the General Agreement concepts in these documents do not necessarily on Tariffs and Trade in the 1970s. [...] This paper assesses the trade law aspects of various Despite its seeming simplicity, this idea entails trade measures-based options, with a particular considerable challenges in the execution, first, in focus on the 1994 Marrakesh Agreement Establishing overcoming the internal sensitivity of granting the World Trade Organization and the 2016 EU- such preferences, and second, in reconciling Jordan [...] Beyond the human dimensions of this tragedy, destination Employing trade policy as a means of assisting and transit countries face enormous financial and refugee/migrant communities and host countries social costs in sheltering these people, with the was addressed in general terms during one of enormity of the crises detailed in reports issued by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and other humanitaria [...] Given the magnitude of the global refugee crisis and the unsettling impact it is having on At the WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires security and social stability in many countries, in December 2017, Turkey and Qatar picked up and given the fact that trade policy solutions on the aid-for-trade theme and tabled a broadly to the crisis were referenced by the WTO in its worded proposal for li [...] Officially called the “Decision on Differential and 3 The lead-in communication to the joint draft states in part, “Believing that More Favourable Treatment, Reciprocity and ‘trade’ can be used as a means for more equitable sharing of responsibility Fuller Participation of Developing Countries,”4 by the international community to alleviate the adverse impacts on the countries hosting especially si