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Latest — 16 Oct 2025

Checking In On the Trump Administration's Drug Price Control Plans

Following up on two previous posts I did on this issue, let's see how the Trump administration's plan to push drug prices in the U.S. down while pushing drug prices in other countries up is going. At the end of September, Trump announced "the

New Model WTO Program at McGill

This is from some enterprising students at McGill University who are setting up a Model WTO program: My name is Sumayya Kheireddine, and together with my co-president Randa Omar, we are two law students at McGill University. Inspired by our experience at the Model World Trade Organization simulation in Switzerland,

Guest Post: Too Big To Fail: The EU Steel Industry, Article XXVIII of the GATT 1994 and the EU’s Free Trade Agreements

This is a guest post by trade lawyer Victor Crochet and law professor Weihuan Zhou Steel has long been a contentious topic in international trade, in part because of the numerous jobs it creates and its relevance to downstream industries including those related to national defense. In the European Union

Reclaiming the WTO’s Practical Mission: A Thought Experiment in WTO Reform

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the predecessor of the World Trade Organization (WTO), emerged as a postwar response to economic nationalism. Like the United Nations, which sought to prevent another world war, the GATT aimed to avert the kind of trade wars unleashed by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Discussing Trade Policy on the Internet

Shifting the IELP blog to a new platform has led me to do a bit of reflection on the past, present, and future of discussing trade policy online. I am vaguely aware that there were Usenet forum discussions in the 1990s, and there may have been good trade policy conversations

Beware the "Securitization" of Trade Policy

In recent years, U.S. trade policy has seen a creeping takeover by "security" concerns. The precise scope of these concerns is unclear, but they appear to cover both the traditional aspects of military-related security as well as the vague and amorphous concept of "economic security."

Call for Candidates (Co-)Editor(s)-in-Chief Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL)

This is from the JIEL: The 5-year term of the current Co-Editors-in-Chief of JIEL is ending. We have been charged to facilitate the process of electing the next Editor or Co-Editors-in-Chief. JIEL is the pre-eminent journal in the field of international economic law, published by Oxford University Press (OUP). We

CPTPP Roster of Panel Chairs

Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is looking for candidates for the roster of CPTPP panel chairs: Expressions of Interest: Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Roster of Panel Chairs The Australian Government is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified individuals to be considered

Guest Post: Putting the “harm” in Pharmaceuticals – evaluating President Trump’s proposal of 100% tariffs

This is a guest post from Simon Schropp (BRG and George Washington University) On Friday, September 25, 2025, President Trump – characteristically in a post on Truth Social – announced his intention to impose a 100% tariff on any branded/patented pharmaceutical products imported into the United States, unless the manufacturer “is

Stephen Miran on Tariffs and National Savings

In a speech earlier this week, Stephen Miran, who had been the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and is now a member of the Federal Reserve Board, made his case for a looser monetary policy. One aspect of his argument was that he thinks national savings will be