I remain puzzled by some recent statements questioning whether free trade promotes peace. When I read another one in the Boston Review, I thought I was going to have to go
through all my old rebuttals again. The article starts off this way: [...]
I remain puzzled by some recent statements questioning whether free trade promotes peace. When I read another one in the Boston Review, I thought I was going to have to go
through all my old rebuttals again. The article starts off this way: [...]
The Role of the WTO in Planetary SustainabilitySteve Charnovitz6 April 2024 Promoting planetary sustainability is within the legal competence of all multilateral organizations.
As a result, no international organization is likely to have an exclusive competence to effectuate any major sustainability goal. A recognition of such overlapping [...]
Last week, in the press release for its 2024 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, USTR said that over the years, the identification of trade barriers in
this annual report has strayed from the original purpose of the statute, and that in the 2024 report it was going to narrow the scope of the barriers it was targeting: [...]
In recent years, the U.S. has expressed concerns about digital trade regulation in a number of other countries, with the focus tending to be on the the EU due to its large
market and active regulatory efforts (although it sounds like USTR and the European Commission are getting along at the moment). [...]
There's a new FTA digital chapter to analyze, with the EU-New Zealand FTA coming into force soon. Let's take a look at the data flows provisions, with the EU-Japan text in
the back of our minds as a comparison. [...]
In a Proposed Rule issued last year, the U.S. Commerce Department said it would take into account "nonexistent, weak, or ineffective property (including intellectual property),
human rights, labor, and environmental protections" in various ways as part of its anti-dumping/countervailing duty calculations (surrogate value selection, § 351.408; [...]
This is a guest post by Rohan, a PhD student at the Graduate Institute This is a guest post by Rohan, a PhD student at the Graduate Institute India and the EFTA countries (Iceland,
Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) signed a comprehensive Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) on 10th March, 2024 after a long process of negotiations [...]
In the Section 301 petition recently filed by a group of unions, the petitioners argued that "Section 301 provides an appropriate mechanism for addressing China’s policies
in the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sector." They offer three reasons for this: [...]
U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai spoke recently at a SeedAI event and had some interesting things to say about both online business models and digital trade regulation. I'll
start with a quote that reflects what she has said many times about sorting out domestic digital regulation before the U.S. [...]
This is the abstract of a new paper titled "Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA", which argues that many "white, less educated voters left
the Democratic Party" due to NAFTA: [...]