Since the 2016 assessment of Singapore’s measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing, the country has taken a number of actions to strengthen its framework.

Singapore has been in an enhanced follow-up process following the adoption of its mutual... [...]

Steve Charnovitz At today's DSB meeting, press reports state that the US representative "charged that China and the EU, in calling for the continued use of Rule 15, were supporting

what the U.S. sees as the Appellate Body’s blatant rule breaking."  In addition, the US representative was reported to have complained that "we have heard today [...]

Haitao Xiang, 42, formerly of Chesterfield, Missouri, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on one count of conspiracy to commit economic espionage, three counts of economic

espionage, one count of conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets and... [...]

Steve Charnovitz 3 December 2019 I was delighted to see the open letter from two current and one former member of the Appellate Body disputing yesterday's news item that various

Appellate Body members are seeking the ouster of the Director of the Appellate Body Secretariat. [...]

In the context of the ongoing Appellate Body crisis, here is a letter to the WTO DG sent by Mr Ujal Singh Bhatia, Mr Shree B.C. Servansing, and Ms Hong Zhao: letter Dear Director-General,

Regarding recent media articles, we have deep concerns about the breach of confidentiality and the misrepresentations disseminated about meetings between Appellate [...]

Nicolas’ post on how unilateral retaliation may limit “appeals into the void” reminds me of a misleading statement I keep reading in the press these days. Many seem to

believe that with the demise of the Appellate Body (AB), the WTO will lose its “bite”, i.e., that pre-Dec. [...]

A former senior U.S. Army civilian employee pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to accept over $100,000 in bribes while serving as the director of the range at Hawaii’s

Schofield Barracks and to a related firearms offense. Victor Garo, 67, of... [...]

There is a justified fear that, once the WTO Appellate Body goes out of business in a few days, the entire edifice of WTO dispute settlement will collapse like a house of cards.

The key concern from a structural perspective is not the demise of the Appellate Body per se, but rather the loss of the right to the quasi-automatic adoption (via [...]

Comments on the Appellator Graham Affair Steve Charnovitz 2 December 2019 A report on World Trade Online this afternoon states that Appellate Body Chair Thomas Graham is threatening

to resign from the Appellate Body when his term ends on December 10 unless the WTO ousts the Mr. [...]

The U.S. Treasury Department and IRS today issued proposed and final regulations relating to two significant international tax provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA):

foreign tax credits (FTC) and the base erosion and anti-abuse tax (BEAT). “The... [...]