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John Magnus

Safeguards Without Compensation -- A New Normal?

Mexico’s push for exclusion from the United States’ solar safeguard measure, which jumped into the news this week, raises a point of potential interest for the IELP Blog audience. The escape clause / efficient breach theory of safeguards holds that a WTO Member can temporarily retract a trade concession, hiking

Another Thing Spiking in 2022 America: Harm to the WTO

Friends of the World Trade Organization (WTO) experienced some distress during the US government’s 2017-2020 cycle. They did not expect American disrespect for the WTO and its rules to reach a new, much-higher watermark in the current cycle. But that has occurred. Responsive commentary has been curiously low-volume so

A Braking Mechanism for Subsidies

Cato held a panel discussion yesterday on subsidies and subsidy discipline. A central theme explored was how the United States can exert global leadership in the field of subsidy control and enlightened self-restraint. I contributed a suggestion raising some potentially complex legal (maybe constitutional) issues that might benefit from commentary

What Is Section 421?

Am placing here, as a new post, part of a comment that otherwise would have been stuck under the wrong heading (antidumping). At issue was a piece in The Economist about the Tires 421 result. What I found interesting in the Economist piece is that it stopped short of what