Jesse Kreier

Currency undervaluation is in the news, what with the US CVD case on tires from Vietnam, and a more recent US Section 301 investigation against the same country.  So it is not coincidental that I found myself looking at the most recent US Treasury Report on currency manipulation, “Macroeconomic and

There has been substantial discussion of transnational subsidies on the pages of this blog over the past few months. Now, the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade is organizing a Webinar on the topic, entitled "Cross-border Subsidies and the WTO" on 9 September from 5:30 to 7:30

As previously reported in this blog, China last month found that non-market economy conditions exist in the US energy and petrochemical sector, and accordingly swapped out US exporters’ costs in calculating the dumping margin for US n-propanal exporters (“The US is now a non-market economy – anti-dumping ruling by China”, 18

A new panel report is out that addresses yet again the question of whether, and if so when, a Member can disregard “distorted” costs in determining normal value (and replace them with higher “undistorted” costs). EU-Cost Adjustment Methodologies, DS494. This issue has now been taken up in four WTO disputes,

This is a guest post is from Zhiguo Yu, a former MOFCOM official and Georgetown Law graduate, and Sandeep Thomas Chandy, a Georgetown Law graduate. On 17 July, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) released its preliminary ruling on the imposition of anti-dumping duties on imported n-propanol originating in the

As someone who has spent much of his career working on trade remedies in the context of goods, I am always intrigued when I see the concepts or language of trade remedies used in new and different context. Hence, when I stumbled on what appear to be trade remedy provisions

Over the past few weeks, various posts have appeared on this blog relating to the issue of transnational subsidization. These posts have focused on one specific aspect of the problem – the extent to which the EU could countervail imports from one country (Egypt), where they are subsidized by a third

We hear much of the WTO Members who are pushing the MPIA, and much also of US opposition, but less about the views of many other Members, such as India, South Africa and ACP countries, who have not signed on. So it was with some curiosity that I attended a

The UK Government has made its version of an EU -UK FTA available to the public (link below), and not surprisingly it differs dramatically from the text proposed by the EU. I have restricted myself for now to a quick look at subsidies, competition and trade remedies. I say a

The WTO is seeking applicants for its Young Professionals Program (see link below). This is a one year temporary position for young professionals up to thirty-two years of age with 2+ years of relevant professional experience. The YPF prioritizes applicants from developing WTO Members not currently represented in the WTO