About the product
International business throughout the world needs regimes that provide certain forms of commercial order and openness. This publication attempts to show how the United Nations system has contributed to the order of global commerce, the international commercial relations and the reduction of barriers to interstate trade and investment. The UN's substantive regulatory role, which has proven crucial to the flow of international commerce, is brought out by the discussions offered in such areas as: states jurisdictional rights, intellectual property rights, standardizing and harmonizing rules for international commercial transactions, labour standards, money laundering, preventing damages to goods and services in international trade, and assuring compensation for losses from accidents, pollution and crime. In addition, the publication also presents information on the regulatory activities of UN bodies, listing all of their treaties and major non-binding accords.
