Two individuals were charged in an indictment filed today for their alleged roles in a multimillion-dollar scheme involving purported investments in a start-up financial technology

company. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. [...]

The main issues dealt with by this Plenary were: 1. Operations and Streamlining the FATF Strengthening the Governance and Accountability of the FATF Appointing the incoming

FATF Vice-President for 2019-2021 2. Major Strategic Initiatives Combating the financing of terrorism, including... [...]

An Orland Park, Illinois man pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to cause damage to internet-connected computers for his role in owning, administering, and supporting

illegal booter services that launched millions of illegal DDoS attacks against victim computer... [...]

"Development" has become another hotly-debated topic in the WTO these days. On Jan 15, the US tabled its communication "An undifferentiated WTO: self-declared development status

risks institutional irrelevance", which Simon blogged about earlier. A month later, China, along with several other countries, tabled its own paper titled “The [...]

A former sales representative and the president of a U.S.-based company were charged in an indictment unsealed today on foreign bribery, wire fraud and money laundering charges

for their alleged roles in a scheme to corruptly secure business advantages, including... [...]

One of the big issues in the U.S.-China trade talks is how to enforce any resulting agreement. The traditional enforcement mechanism in trade agreements is to have a neutral

adjudication process, and if a violation is found, the complaining government can get authorization to impose tariffs (in order to induce compliance or to rebalance [...]

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 49 states and the District of Columbia in the third quarter of 2018, according to statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau

of Economic Analysis. The percent change in real GDP in the... [...]

This is from the U.S. statement at the February 25 DSB meeting: • We also note that at least one Member has said that the United States should table its own proposal. The

United States has made its views on these issues very clear: if WTO Members say that we support a rules-based trading system, then the WTO Appellate Body must follow [...]

This is from law professor Frank Garcia: This is from law professor Frank Garcia: The current U.S. Administration has made coercing our trade partners and allies a signature

of its approach to our transnational economic relationships. No one denies the need for trade to be a mutually beneficial bargain, since that is in fact what trade [...]

This is from a recent paper by Greg Shaffer: (i) Protection against social dumping. Claims of unfair trade proliferated following the election of Donald Trump. The underlying

problem from a social policy perspective, however, is not “unfair trade” as viewed through the traditional WTO lens of product dumping because antidumping procedures [...]