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Here in a fully updated fourth edition is the definitive treatment of EC trade protection laws. Always comprehensive in its coverage, in its new edition the book provides incisive analysis and critical commentary on the numerous cases decided under the Anti-Dumping, Countervailing, Safeguard and Trade Barriers Regulations. It also discusses the implications of the new draft Regulation on unfair pricing practices in airline services. The emphasis throughout is on practical application of the rules. Van Bael & Bellis ¿ recognized as first in Europe in the area of trade laws ¿ leaves no stone unturned in its consideration of such issues and elements of the subject as the roles of the various Community Institutions, the EC legislative history, the European courts¿ case law and the WTO framework. An extensive array of tables and annexes at the back of the book leads the practitioner to all the essential primary source materials in the field. Lawyers and academics involved with trade matters will discover that Anti-Dumping and Other Trade Protection Laws of the EC is still without peer as a guide to EC trade protection laws.