Simon Lester

This is from an article in the Washington Post: Even before the overnight developments, Trump supporters — and those cheerleading his get-tough approach to trade with China — began reckoning with the likelihood that the president is abandoning the cause. Trump all but confirmed he’s backing away from a showdown with

This is from Bloomberg: Airbus SE is ready to tell the World Trade Organization that the threat posed to Boeing Co. by its most ambitious program ever, the double-decker A380 jetliner, is so marginal that any U.S.-led sanctions against the European Union over illegal aid should be minimal.

Many people seemed to enjoy the U.S. - Gambling WTO dispute back in its heyday. Is it possible a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling could revive it? This is from Law360: The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision giving states a green light to legalize sports

From the IIEL and the Graduate Institute: July 11, 2018 ◊ Georgetown Law, Washington, DC Download the Summer 2018 G2 Program RSVP Now Join Georgetown’s Institute of International Economic Law and the Graduate Institute, Geneva’s Center for Trade and Economic Integration for a conference on resolving disputes in international

Here is something from a speech by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross: We are now constrained by two sides of a WTO pincer. One is the most-favored nation clause, or MFN. This rule says that we must apply the same tariff to every nation with which we do not have a

The Section 232 steel/aluminum tariffs are in place for some countries but not all, as exemptions are under negotiation.  A few countries are still talking with the Trump administration about this, but others (Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, and possibly Australia but I'm not sure) have gotten out

This is from a call for papers for a Joint North American Conference on International Economic Law Incorporating the 2018 ASIL IECLIG Biennial, to be held September 21-22, 2018 at McGill's Faculty of Law in Montreal: I. Overall Concept and Theme Theme: Managing International Economic (Dis)Integration: Challenges

Recall that CETA Article 8.10 identifies the following examples of "treatment" that is not "fair and equitable": 1. Each Party shall accord in its territory to covered investments of the other Party and to investors with respect to their covered investments fair and equitable treatment

Negotiating history often raises as many questions as it answers, but that's part of what makes it interesting. Recently, I stopped by the  University of Pennsylvania library to look at the Clair Wilcox collection of International Trade Organization documents, and I found a document dated September 15, 1947,