U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai testified in front of the Senate Finance Committee today on the Biden administration's trade agenda. She was asked about the USMCA rapid response
labor cases I noted in my previous post: [...]
U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai testified in front of the Senate Finance Committee today on the Biden administration's trade agenda. She was asked about the USMCA rapid response
labor cases I noted in my previous post: [...]
On Monday, the AFL-CIO and some other groups announced the filing of a petition under the USMCA rapid response labor mechanism (for background on this procedure, see Kathleen's
post here). Now today, USTR announced that it has initiated a request for review under that mechanism on a different matter: [...]
This is from the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC): The Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) is hosting a Colloquium on ‘International
Investment Law & New Technologies’ which will take place on 9 and 10 December 2021 in Tilburg, the Netherlands. [...]
This is from Prof. Dr. Steffen Hindelang and Mr. Jens Hillebrand Pohl, inviting contribution from followers of this blog: Call for Papers: 2021 CELIS Forum on Investment
Security [...]
The Biden Administration has appointed Thea Lee to be the Deputy Under Secretary for International Labor Affairs. This is a thoughtful appointment to an agency that has had
an important trade role for at least six decades. I wish her good luck in having the labor voice heard in the policy arena. [...]
I commend the new essay in Barron's by my colleague Susan Aarsonon "How Nations Can Build Online Trust Through Trade". Her scholarly contributions to the development of effective
trade policy are always enlightening. [...]
After almost two days of intense discussion on Twitter and elsewhere, here's where I am now on the issue of vaccine production and the TRIPS waiver. The most important point
here is whether additional factories around the world could produce vaccines. In order to do so, they would need to have licensing deals with the pharmaceutical companies [...]
From the SIEL: From the SIEL: SIEL May Conversation SIEL May Conversation The Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) is pleased to invite you to its May Conversation
entitled ‘Book Launch: Sondra Faccio, Indirect Expropriation in International Investment Law. [...]
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today announced the renewal of its Geographic Targeting Orders (GTOs) that require U.S. title insurance companies to identify
the natural persons behind shell companies used in all-cash purchases of residential real estate. [...]
Angela Merkel's Kriegserklärung against America in its effort to to build consensus for a WTO vaccine waiver will come as no shock to those familiar with Germany's punitive
moralism and gratuitous cruelty in the Greek debt crisis a few years back. But the chancellor's salvo raises an obvious question: what if the US loses the battle [...]