ABSTRACT The impact of international trade law on domestic policy and regulatory actors and institutions is examined here via the concept of ‘discourse communities’. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is understood both as a legal framework and as a socialising forum which fostered the ‘shared conceptual and normative sensibilities’ of actors functioning within it not only as states’ representatives, but also as trade experts; experts who performed roles within GATT as well as roles in domestic policy-making bodies and regulatory institutions. In examining the way in which these actors reviewed the work of Australia’s Tariff Board in light of GATT obligations, the analysis points to their role in the dissemination of GATT’s constitutive ideas; about trade, economic thinking and what constitutes expertise and authoritative knowledge about trade, economies and economics. Using the Tariff Board as a case study, the article traces the way in which Australian trade experts’ engagement with the ‘discourse community’ of GATT in its early years worked to devalue the knowledge and expertise of those who were perceived to be outside of this community, delegitimising in the process alternative understandings of trade and economy that did not support GATT’s central project of global trade liberalisation.

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国际贸易规范、理念和专业知识向国家法定机构的传输：关贸总协定和澳大利亚关税委员会的案例

摘要这里通过“话语社区”的概念来考察国际贸易法对国内政策和监管行为者和机构的影响。关税与贸易总协定 (GATT) 既被理解为一个法律框架，又被理解为一个社会化论坛，它促进了在其中不仅作为国家代表而且作为贸易专家运作的参与者的“共同概念和规范敏感性”；在 GATT 中发挥作用的专家以及在国内决策机构和监管机构中发挥作用的专家。在检查这些行为者根据 GATT 义务审查澳大利亚关税委员会工作的方式时，分析指出了他们在传播 GATT 基本理念方面的作用；关于贸易，经济思维以及什么构成了有关贸易、经济和经济的专业知识和权威知识。文章以关税委员会为案例研究，追溯了澳大利亚贸易专家在 GATT 的“话语社区”早年参与的方式，以贬低那些被认为不在此范围内的人的知识和专长。社区，在此过程中将不支持 GATT 全球贸易自由化核心项目的对贸易和经济的替代理解合法化。