Joost Pauwelyn

The US plan to impose reciprocal tariffs is a game changer. If you ask The Economist, Trump’s tariffs “really mean chaos for global trade”. We submit that, if managed well, the opposite could be true: a new balance in global trade and the revival of the World Trade Organization

Now that I addressed what the MPIA is and whether/how it works, let me turn to the third, and final, post in this series: What are some of the novelties that can be found in the first MPIA procedure? The list of eight items below is limited to procedural/

In my first post of last week, I briefly explained what the MPIA is. In this second post, I ask the question whether the MPIA worked, now that the first MPIA appeal was filed. I also offer a roadmap with the key steps of the MPIA process. Did it Work?

“Free trade saves lives” is what I was recently reading on Twitter. And, yes, trading masks or ventilators in times of coronavirus can do exactly that. Plenty of trade commentators (here and here) have lamented the export restrictions recently imposed on medical gear, which may do the opposite. Jennifer Hillman

Dear Ulli, On a slightly more optimistic note than your post of yesterday (and realizing that with corona, other, more important issues are on people's minds), I think you are unnecessarily equating “independent third-party adjudication” with the specific incarnation that the Appellate Body has taken after 25 years

I have been asked by several people what will happen with the 10 pending appeals that will (apparently) not be carried over next week. Indeed, according to press reports only 4 of the 14 currently pending appeals, for which hearings already took place, will continue under Rule 15 (Note that,

Nicolas’ post on how unilateral retaliation may limit “appeals into the void” reminds me of a misleading statement I keep reading in the press these days. Many seem to believe that with the demise of the Appellate Body (AB), the WTO will lose its “bite”, i.e., that pre-Dec. 11

In order to save independent, two-tiered and binding WTO dispute settlement, US critiques of AB “overreach” must be taken seriously, even if one is not fully convinced by such critiques. If the AB has, indeed, “overreached”, who is actually behind it, and most importantly, how might one “correct the course”

I have been thinking about what may happen with WTO dispute settlement post 10 Dec. 2019, when the Appellate Body will only have one member ... In a forthcoming JIEL editorial, draft on ssrn here, I start with two “unlikely scenarios”, at least in the short term: the US lifts its