Illicit Trade under International Law

Mauricio Salcedo-Maldonado is a practitioner and scholar on international trade law and diplomacy. He has a distinguished record representing Colombia before the WTO Dispute Settlement Body, leading free trade agreement negotiations and other international business. He oversaw Colombia's WTO legal representation (2007–2024) and was Deputy Permanent Representative to the WTO (2016–2019). He holds a Ph.D. in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute and an LLM from Georgetown University. He currently lectures at Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Externado and serves as a partner at Vali Consultores.

• Part I. General Theory: 1. Introduction; 2. The concept of illicit trade and its typologies; Part II. Combating Illicit Trade: 3. Illicit trade per se vs. Illicit trade de facto: comparative case studies; 4. Regulatory responses: the fight against illicit trade; Part III. International Law and Illicit Trade: 5. Principles of international law and customary international law; 6. Treaties; Part IV. WTO law and Illicit Trade: 7. Illicit trade and WTO law; 8. WTO responses to illicit trade and proposal for reform; Appendix A. Relevant non-WTO case law; Reference.