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Latest — 22 Feb 2026

What happens to all the frameworks, deals, and agreements negotiated by USTR since April 2, 2025?

With the Supreme Court ruling (6-3) that the President lacks inherent peacetime authority to impose tariffs under IEEPA, the question is what happens to the trade/security deals (informal and formal agreements) negotiated in the shadow of the IEEPA tariffs? This post explains how the US has sought to separate

Job Posting: Teaching Fellow, and Lecturer in Law, International Economic Law, Business and Policy (IELBP), Stanford Law

This is from Alan Sykes at Stanford Law School: STANFORD LAW SCHOOL seeks to hire a teaching fellow for the LLM Program in International Economic Law, Business & Policy. The appointment is for a two-year position with the possibility of a third year by mutual agreement, beginning in August 2026.

Section 122 as a (Partial) Replacement for the IEEPA Tariffs

Apparently, this is the era of dusting off old international economic policy statutes and figuring out what they mean and how they work. After the Supreme Court's ruling today in Learning Resources, holding that "IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs," we are now

Comparing the Forced Labor Provisions in the New U.S. Trade Deals

Continuing my multi-part blog posting series on comparing provisions in the Trump administration trade agreements, let's look now at the provisions that try to induce U.S. trading partners to take action against imports made with forced labor.

AOC on Foreign Policy and Trade Policy

AOC spoke on a couple panels last week at the Munich Security Conference and also spoke at the Technische Universität Berlin, and this European trip was widely seen as a move to establish some foreign policy credentials for a presidential run.

More on the Trump Administration's Dollar Policy

Last May, I asked, "Does the Trump Administration Want a Strong or a Weak Dollar?" That post was about a House hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and I didn't get an answer to the question posed in the title of my post.

Guest Post: Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk: WTO Panel Rules against the U.S. in US — IRA (China)

This is a guest post from Jingyuan (Joey) Zhou of Chongqing University School of Law Introduction On January 30, 2026, a panel at the World Trade Organization (WTO) handed down another blow to the United States, finding the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) inconsistent with the U.S.’s

Comparing the Enforcement Provisions in the New U.S. Trade Deals

Building on the comparison of trade agreement provisions in my last post, let's take a look at the "enforcement" provisions of the six agreements for which the legal texts have been published.

Comparing the Economic and National Security Provisions in the New U.S. Trade Deals

By my count, we now have the legal texts of five Trump administration trade agreements. Will there be enforcement actions under these agreements?

Joost Pauwelyn on Politics and Law in the World Trading System

Joost has a new paper for the Hinrich Foundation that, he says, applies the framework of his 2005 Transformation of World Trade piece to "today's moribund WTO."