Brett Williams

Recommend Scott Lincicome, "The Obscure Maritime Law That Ruins Your Commute" If any of you have ever wondered about para 3(a) of GATT 1994 the first sentence of which provides: The provisions of Part II of GATT 1994 shall not apply to measures taken by a Member

The draft agriculture text has nothing in it - What a laugh! I wonder if some of you have had a chance to look at the text produced by the Negotiating group on Agriculture for MC12 https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news21_e/agri_30nov21_e.htm The

To find the submission, go to this page Summary of Australia's involvement in disputes currently before the World Trade Organization | Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (dfat.gov.au) and scroll down to find this link DS-598 Australia's First Written Submission (dfat.gov.au)

I recommend this terrific article "How the WTO Changed China" by Yeling Tan (Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon) in the March/April 2021 issue of Foreign Affairs. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2021-02-16/how-wto-changed-china It reminds us that the

It is great to see the WTO’s news item on 12 April celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (see https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news19_e/tpr_12apr19_e.htm   and https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tprm30_e.htm

Can anyone enlighten me on how the obligation to eliminate export subsidies on agricultural products in articles 6 and 7 of the Ministerial decision on Export Competition  WT/MIN(15)/45 — WT/L/980  (https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/mc10_e/l980_e.htm  ) fits into

The Chair's report at the end of the 7th WTO MInisterial contains the following text: "There was broad agreement that the growing number of bilateral and regional trade agreements is an issue for the multilateral trading system, and that there is a need to ensure that the

Those following the proposed Discriminatory Trade Agreement (‘DTA’ – some of you call them FTAs) between the USA and South Korea may be interested in my submission to the Australian government regarding the proposed negotiation of a DTA between Australia and South Korea. You can find it here http://www.dfat.