
Author: Anait Smbatyan
Keywords: less favorable treatment; like product; national treatment; World Trade Organization; WTO Dispute Settlement Body
Abstract
The national treatment is a cornerstone of WTO system together with the most favored nation treatment. When goods are alike, when treatment is less favorable for imported goods, what are the characteristics of adverse impact on trade, how the violation of national treatment should be demonstrated – answers to all these questions we find in WTO dispute settlement practice.