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The mission of the journal is to publish articles which deepen understanding of issues facing the international trading system through critical analysis and constructive debate. The Journal has an independent editorial policy and board.

The World Trade Review publishes three issues per year. It invites articles from a wide range of specialists world-wide which address trade issues from economic, legal, political and inter-disciplinary perspectives. A rigorous peer review process assures that articles meet high standards in terms of theoretical and methodological rigour.

Editor: Richard Blackhurst

Editorial Board:

James Crawford, University of Cambridge
Joseph Francois, Erasmus University
Judith Goldstein, Stanford University
Henrik Horn, Stockholm University
Patrick Low (ex officio) World Trade Organization
Petros Mavroidis, University of Neuchatel
André Sapir, Free University of Brussels
Joseph Weiler, New York University
L. Alan Winters, University of Sussex

Book Review Editor:

Joseph Weiler, New York University

Associate Book Review Editor:

Kevin Klingbeil, New York University School of law

Articles in the March 2005 issue of the journal include:

• Introduction: A tribute to Bob Hudec
  Richard Blackhurst and Petros C. Mavroidis
    
• Belgian Family Allowances and the challenge of origin-based discrimination
  Steve Charnovitz
    
• A diplomat’s economics: reciprocity in the Uruguay Round negotiations
  J. Michael Finger
    
• A preference for development: the law and economics of GSP
  Gene M. Grossman and Alan O. Sykes
   
• Nondiscrimination in GATT/WTO: was there anything to begin with and is there anything left ?
  T. N. Srinivasan
   
• In memory of Robert Emil Hudec (1934–2003)
  Ichiro Araki

Dispute settlement corner:

• United States — Tax treatment for ‘Foreign Sales Corporations’
  Robert Howse and Damien J. Neven

Book review:

• Who’s Afraid of the WTO ? by Kent Jones
  Sylvia Ostry