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Simon Lester

"Advisory Opinions" in WTO Panel/AB Reports

This is from the U.S. statement at the DSB meeting on Monday (footnotes omitted): 10. EUROPEAN UNION – COUNTERVAILING MEASURES ON CERTAIN POLETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE FROM PAKISTAN A. REPORT OF THE APPELLATE BODY (WT/DS486/AB/R AND WT/DS486/AB/R/ADD.1) AND REPORT OF THE PANEL (WT/DS486/

Memo to the Trump Administration: The Sunset Clause is a Lost Cause

Here's a tweet from Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star: Trudeau says he wanted to meet with Trump to resolve NAFTA, but Pence told him that he couldn't meet with Trump unless Canada accepted an auto-termination "sunset clause" in the deal. He said Canada

Farewell Speech of Appellate Body Member Ricardo Ramírez-Hernández

You can read the full farewell speech by Appellate Body Member Ricardo Ramírez-Hernández here. There's a lot of good stuff in it. This is an excerpt, with some comments from me thrown in here and there: Now I'm going to share with you some thoughts about

Tony Blair on "What do to about Brexit?"

Here is something Tony Blair said on Fareed Zakaria's TV show last week-end: ZAKARIA: What do do about Brexit? BLAIR: Well, I would still like to see it changed. I mean, I think that the truth is there is no answer to the fundamental dilemma. So in this

Will the U.S. - China Trade Deal Violate MFN?

This is from the FT: Washington is pressing Beijing to enter into multiyear contracts to buy US agricultural and energy imports as part of a broader trade deal aimed at reducing the $337bn bilateral trade deficit with China. But the move could mean taking Chinese business away from key US

The EU General Data Protection Regulation

The GDPR is coming into force soon and I'm trying to sort out the consequences in general and for this blog in particular. With regard to this blog, over 2,000 people have signed up for email notifications, and presumably some of those people are from an EU

Is Trump Backing Off China?

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

The Future of the Airbus-Boeing Dispute

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.

Will the U.S. - Gambling Dispute Return?

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

G2 Conference on Resolving Disputes in International Economic Law

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