This is a guest post by Werner Zdouc. The piece will be published in a forthcoming issue of the World Trade Review. A universalist, shaping destinies, staying true to himself

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Last week, finance professor Michael Pettis spoke at an event about a new paper he co-authored. From what I can tell, Pettis has had some influence recently on the U.S. trade

policy debate, but I have found his views hard to decipher. He and I have interacted a bit on Twitter, but none of the exchanges provided much clarification. [...]

Announcement: Announcement: Interested WTO lawyers are invited to a one-hour academic feedback seminar on Zoom, hosted by Prof. Geraldo Vidigal, University of Amsterdam, to

comment on a draft article by Lothar Ehring, written to pay tribute to Frieder Roessler. [...]

Over the past couple years, I've been looking at how digital trade agreements set out data flows obligations and exceptions. I've got a new one to examine, as the EU has published

a pre-legal scrub version of its digital trade agreement with Singapore, building on their previously signed FTA. [...]

At a Baker Institute event last week, C.J. Mahoney, who was a Deputy U.S. Trade Representative during the Trump administration, argued that renewal of the USMCA under the Article

34.7 review clause was unlikely to happen in 2026. He first provided some background on the provision: [...]

In July, I mentioned that the the WTO Dispute Settlement Reform Process is underway, and that people can follow it a few weeks behind the actual developments, as meeting minutes

are derestricted.  The Minutes of the Heads of Delegation meeting from July 18 are now available. [...]

This is from the ANZSIL International Economic Law Interest Group (IELIG): 2024 Workshop The 2024 IELIG Workshop will be held via Zoom on Friday 29 November 2024. Its aim is

to provide an informal setting for discussion of topical issues and works in progress. [...]

During the WTO Public Forum, the TradeExperettes published a report entitled, Ten Quick Wins for: Re-globalization and Resilience in Trade. The report captures a collection

of terrific trade analysts (who happen to be women) short, policy briefs that capture ideas and potential solutions for urgent issues for the multilateral trading [...]

This is a guest post by Petros Mavroidis of Columbia Law School. The piece will be published in a forthcoming issue of the World Trade Review. An Uncommon Mind: Frieder Roessler’s

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Trade policy came up at last week's presidential debate, with a somewhat traditional discussion of tariffs at the start, and then a shift at the end to security-related issues.

Kamala Harris started it off by referring to Trump's proposed universal baseline tariffs as a sales tax: [...]