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Case solutions

Food fight: the US Europe and Trade in Hormone-Treated Beef

WTO (World Trade Organization) was established in January 1995, its predecessor was "the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) - an international multilateral agreement.

WTO's distinctive and significant mechanism for settlement is mechanism of judicial settlement. Requirements of this mechanism can be found in Annex 2 of “WTO Agreement” which is “Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes understanding” (food fight). The mechanism of dispute settlement followed by the organization is 50 years old and followed in GATT. However, this mechanism is known as “WTO crown jewel” (food fight) for last seventeen years.

WTO's dispute settlement mechanism to take compulsory jurisdiction to prohibit unilateral action, the group set up automatically, according to the rules of advertisement item, free from any political force intervention, the report automatically through the implementation of the recommendations and rulings has a better supervision and management mechanism, automatically authorize trade retaliation, etc. These are important characteristics of mechanism that makes sure that the system performed good work, and it results in ability to better protect the multilateral trading mechanism. It needed to be understood well that mechanism of dispute settlement in WTO is significant development of contributions and international public law.

It is to mention here that every thing is not perfect, therefore mechanism of dispute settlement mechanism of WTO also have no exception. There is an issue that process of settlement is under influence of power politics. After the complain is generated in developing states, it is found that there are low chances for getting favourable dispensation outcomes as compared with developed states in world. Developed countries in the WTO complaints of the complaining party to see the full liberalization of the disputed measures to achieve the proportion was 74% in developing countries reached only 50 percent of complaints.

WTO trade dispute settlement mechanism legalization means only need to recall a few years ago to use during its unilateral mechanisms. Taking full advantage of the full use of WTO law can provide a powerful threat reduction powerful country.

Intel: Strategic Decisions in Locating a New Assembly and Test Plant

For Intel's new plant location for Asia it is found after comprehensive comparison of Bangkok in Thailand, Chennai in India, Dalian in China and Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam are potential locations. These results are taken out after understanding of all the advantages and disadvantages of these five cities location for setting up Intel's plant in Asia. In depth overview of each of these locations are discussed in later part of this solution.

While considering China, it is to mention that Intel is running one of its labs in Beijing, one AT center in Chengdu and one AT plant in Shanghai. It is also observed that Intel is very much enthusiastic in getting into Asian markets effectively. Therefore, China is best considered land for Intel third AT plant because of huge opportunities as it comprises of big part of Asian ...