In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Brian Deese, the former director of the National Economic Council in the Biden administration, calls for a coordinated use of AD/CVDs as
a way to "discourage" China's "anti-market behavior": [...]
In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Brian Deese, the former director of the National Economic Council in the Biden administration, calls for a coordinated use of AD/CVDs as
a way to "discourage" China's "anti-market behavior": [...]
Finbarr Bermingham reported on Wednesday, April 23, 2024, that in the recent SCM Committee meeting, there were ‘sharp’ exchanges between the US and China related to Chinese
‘overcapacity’ in key sectors owing to subsidies. China objects to the term ‘overcapacity,’ arguing that there is no clear definition within the WTO treaty [...]
Buried deep in the EU - Palm Oil report (paras. 7.911-7.915, on page 250!) is a nugget on developing country status in the WTO. Malaysia asserts, in the TBT context, that
it is a developing Member. It cites as support that: (a) according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) dataset, it is considered to be a developing [...]
U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai had a couple exchanges at last week's Senate Finance Committee hearing in which she suggested that WTO complaints against China had not been effective,
and for that reason the Biden administration had moved away from filing these complaints. [...]
At a House Ways and Means Committee hearing last week, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said a couple times that she wanted "to stop pitting Americans against Americans"
in U.S. trade policy: [...]
Here's an exchange between Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai at a Senate Finance Committee hearing today (2:32:00): Whitehouse: The other
thing I wanted to talk with you about is the loathsome ISDS process. We are not putting ISDS provisions into any new treaties, but they exist as hangovers from past [...]
There has been a lot of discussion recently about how Chinese subsidies and other government support has led to industrial overcapacity, which can have a negative impact on
the manufacturing sector of other economies. If domestic supply exceeds domestic demand, the Chinese-made products that won't be sold in the domestic market will [...]
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: [...]