ABSTRACT
World Trade Organization (WTO) law is part of the broader discipline of international economic law which in turn is part of public international law. Although WTO law is to be considered as a lex specialis which may contract out from non-peremptory norms of public international law, it cannot be read in 'clinical isolation' from general international law. The analysis of international law described so far will be used for the analysis of trade remedies from the point of view of considering them as a species of self-help. The fact that international law regulates trade remedies, a reaction of injured States against an action of a private firm, is further evidence of the evolution of international law towards mixed relationships between States and non-State actors. Trade remedies constitute an attempt to redress an injurious act by a Member State's own action rather than through the WTO multilateral judicial process.
