At the end of the day on Friday, there were a number of news reports about the Biden administration considering a new Section 301 investigation on China, this time focusing

on subsidies. Here's Bloomberg: [...]

As many of you know, I left Cato as of July 1. Since then, I've been working with my former Cato colleague Huan Zhu to set up a news/analysis website on China trade issues.

It's called China Trade Monitor and you can see it here: www.chinatrademonitor.com.  [...]

From the ANZSIL International Economic Law Interest Group: The Co-Chairs of ANZSIL’s International Economic Law Interest Group, Dilan Thampapillai and Chris Riffel, are pleased

to present the programme of this year’s workshop. The workshop on Monday, 6 Sept, will be via Zoom and non-presenting attendants can register with Dilan (d.thampapillai@unsw.edu.au). [...]

The WTO panel report on U.S. - Safeguards on Photovoltaic Products was circulated today. Here are a few reactions based on a very quick read of the report. First, it seems

like kind of a big deal that a safeguard measure, and in particular a U.S. safeguard measure, was found not to be in violation of WTO rules. [...]

The newly-released Panel Report in US – Solar Safeguard (WT/DS562/R) is of course notable in that, for the first time, a global safeguard measure challenged in WTO dispute

settlement has fully survived panel review. A longstanding practice of imposing standards so high that they could never be satisfied has perhaps been breached. [...]

Panel composition in a second USMCA dispute, on U.S. - Solar Safeguards, was recently announced (the first USCMA dispute panel to be composed was discussed here). The panelists

are: [...]

It may not be a new idea, but recent developments remind me how the status of US trade agreements as executive agreements, and the consequent (lack of a) role for them in US

domestic law, has hindered the United States’ ability to comply with its international obligations, and generated unnecessary disputes that have undermined US public [...]

Former State Department official Evan Feigenbaum was recently part of an oral history project on the George W. Bush presidency. I found his comments on that administration's

initial focus on China in foreign policy but subsequent shift to the Middle East after 9/11 very interesting. [...]

From its earliest days, restoring the Iran nuclear deal has been a priority of the Biden Administration. A signal foreign policy accomplishment of former US President Barack

Obama, the deal involved Iran agreeing to concrete verifiable steps to constrain those aspects of its nuclear energy program feared by the West to be directed towards [...]

This is from Hart and SIEL: ABOUT THE PRIZE The SIEL–Hart Prize is awarded every 2 years to an outstanding unpublished manuscript by an early career scholar in the field

of International Economic Law and is sponsored by the Society of International Economic Law and Hart Publishing. [...]