Book contents
- Reviews
- Emerging Powers and the World Trading System
- Emerging Powers and the World Trading System
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface: The Project and Its Methodology
- Part I Legal Capacity and Transnational Legal Orders
- Part II The Cases of Brazil, India, and China
- 4 Building Legal Capacity and Adapting State Institutions in Brazil
- 5 India: An Emerging Giant’s Transformation and Its Implications
- 6 How China Took on the United States and Europe at the WTO
- 7 A New Chinese Economic Law Order?
- Part III The Future of the Transnational Legal Order for Trade
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
5 - India: An Emerging Giant’s Transformation and Its Implications
from Part II - The Cases of Brazil, India, and China
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 July 2021
- Reviews
- Emerging Powers and the World Trading System
- Emerging Powers and the World Trading System
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface: The Project and Its Methodology
- Part I Legal Capacity and Transnational Legal Orders
- Part II The Cases of Brazil, India, and China
- 4 Building Legal Capacity and Adapting State Institutions in Brazil
- 5 India: An Emerging Giant’s Transformation and Its Implications
- 6 How China Took on the United States and Europe at the WTO
- 7 A New Chinese Economic Law Order?
- Part III The Future of the Transnational Legal Order for Trade
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
Summary
To take from the title of a book by Amartya Sen, India is the argumentative nation.1 Many countries have viewed it as arrogant, reputed for its lecturing and moralizing.2 Within the WTO, it is tagged for being obstructionist.3 It has fiercely defended its sovereignty, and in the case of trade, its imposition of high tariffs and other trade barriers to protect domestic producers. After the WTO’s creation, India quickly found itself on the defensive. To respond, it needed to develop trade law capacity as part of state capacity. It gradually did so, and it used both offensive and defensive means to defend its exports and support its vulnerable sectors such as agriculture and textiles.
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- Emerging Powers and the World Trading SystemThe Past and Future of International Economic Law, pp. 128 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021