10.2 Role of UNCTAD in the Field of International Trade Law

The LDC category's creation: UNCTAD's analytical-and-political work built the LDC classification (the criteria-and-list machinery) — the whole preferential architecture's foundation (the S&D world of Unit 9); The GSP's negotiation-and-promotion: the Generalized System of Preferences — the developed countries' non-reciprocal preferences for the developing countries' goods (the UNCTAD principle: trade-and-development's non-reciprocity — the "trade, not aid" slogan's institution); The commodities' regimes: the commodity agreements' sponsorship-and-analysis (the stabilization faces: the buffer stocks' era), the Common Fund for Commodities (1980) — the producers' organisation; The shipping-and-code work: the UN Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences (1974) — the cargo-sharing faces for the developing countries' shipping lines; the multimodal transport's work (Unit 4's world); The TNC code's attempt: the UN Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations (the 1970s-80s negotiation — the failure; the Centre on TNCs' work absorbed into UNCTAD) — the governance's pre-history (Unit 8's honest note); The debt-and-development advocacy: the debt crises' analyses; the structural adjustment's critiques; the financing-for-development agenda's contributions; The investment-and-enterprise work: the investment-policy reviews; the international investment agreements' guidance (the model clauses; the ISDS reform debates); the entrepreneurship development; The trade facilitation-and-transport: the customs modernisation, the ASYCUDA programme (the customs automation system the developing world runs); the transport-and-trade-logistics' work (the landlocked-and-transit countries' faces — Nepal's own stake); The soft-law-and-research function: the Reports' analyses; the statistics-and-indicators (the…