Review of rules and regulations of energy traders in the World Trade Organization

Subject Areas : environmental management

Mansour Pournouri ¹ , hatam sadeghi ziari ² , Solmaz Sadeghi ³

1 - Assistant professor of Law, Islamic Azad University, Central, of Tehran. *(Corresponding Author)
2 - Assistant professor of Law, Payam Noor University of Tehran.
3 - PhD Student in International Law, Islamic Azad University, Central, of Tehran.

Received: 2020-03-10 Accepted : 2020-08-04 Published : 2021-02-19

Keywords: World Trade Organization (WTO), Globalization, multilateral system, Energy Trade,

Abstract :

Economic development and international trade have led to the formation of a global interdependent economic system, which is becoming a unique international system due to the development of human societies and basic needs in the present era, and in this regard, the international institutions have played a major role. If the business rules are clearer and more predictable, they can, at the same time, meet mutual interests of both energy exporting   In fact, globalization of energy trading has increased the importance of its role in economic relations between countries through the international investment,deregulation ofdomestic markets of countries,and a new connection between the area of energy in different countries and the political economy in the word.The present studydescriptive way,explored internat ional  energy rules as well as energy trade multilateral system and tried to determine whether energy products are different from other products and require certain trade rules.It also examines the obstacles to make regulations in the area of trade energy in wto regarding characteristics of different kinds of energy.

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