Simon Lester

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

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

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 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

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