At a Brookings event yesterday, Josh Meltzer of Brookings had some interesting exchanges with U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai on USMCA dispute settlement and the USMCA six year
review. Here's the one on dispute settlement: [...]
At a Brookings event yesterday, Josh Meltzer of Brookings had some interesting exchanges with U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai on USMCA dispute settlement and the USMCA six year
review. Here's the one on dispute settlement: [...]
As part of the WTO Ministerial Conference last week, there were some side events going on. I was watching one called "Business Forum at MC13" and came across some interesting
discussion of subsidy races and trade remedies. [...]
Here is an interesting exchange from last week's hearing in the USMCA San Martín mine labor dispute about the role of WTO case law in interpreting the USMCA provisions at
issue: [...]
Subsidies have been in the news a lot recently, as China's subsidies continue to cause concerns, and the Biden administration and others are now increasing their own use of
subsidies. In trade policy, the reaction to foreign subsidies tends to be an anti-subsidy (aka, countervailing duty) case carried out by a domestic agency, either [...]
In the U.S. - Ripe Olives from Spain, Article 21.5 panel report circulated last week, I was struck by the discussion of the role of previous Commerce Department determinations
in deciding future cases, and the obvious parallels to how the ongoing DS reform negotiation are talking about the role of precedent: [...]
The technical problems on the blog just keep coming. After recently dealing with the RSS feed, I noticed that the emails with recent blog posts (for those of you who read the
blog that way) weren't sending properly. I decided to give up on feedblitz as the sender and switch to a service called follow.it (for those who are into technical [...]
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) governments have been working on the issue of international rules on digital trade. There was recently a leak of a draft Digital
Trade Protocol to the AfCFTA Agreement (an earlier draft is here). In this post, I'm going to look at a few of the provisions in the draft that deal with core principles [...]
This is a guest post by several people from the Research Chair on New Challenges of Economic Globalization, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada: Antoine Comont, Ph.D. Researcher;
Carla Gomez, Ph.D. Researcher; Van Anh Ly, Ph.D., Deputy Director of the Research Chair on New Challenges of Economic Globalization; Richard Ouellet, Full Professor [...]
At a CFR event last week, U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai said some things about digital trade. Normally for these things, I provide a quote and then react to it afterwards,
but the quotes here are so long that I'm going to put my thoughts up front. See below for the full quotes. [...]
The WTO has now posted a document with the DS reform text that will be discussed at the upcoming Ministerial Conference (see the Consolidated Text of a Ministerial Decision
on Dispute Settlement in Annex 1 of the document). There's a lot in there, although nothing on appeal/review unfortunately. [...]