Simon Lester

This is from the Daily Beast: During his first six months in office, Donald Trump’s top trade official met with a host of companies, trade associations, and industry groups. He also carved out a little time for an unsuspected visitor: an employee of Ralph Nader’s former progressive nonprofit.

This is from Gregory Shaffer, Manfred Elsig and Mark Pollack: The Trump administration threatens to end the world’s trade court, the Appellate Body (AB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), by blocking the appointment of new AB judges. In doing so, it risks destroying the rules-based trading system that

USTR's updated NAFTA negotiating objectives are here.  These are a few new additions that jumped out at me, with some brief comments: --------------------------------------- Government procurement: "Ensure reciprocity in market access opportunities for U.S. goods, services, and suppliers in Canada and Mexico." I'm not

This is from the Japanese government's list of "Suspended Provisions" in the TPP: 2. Investment Agreement and Investment Authorisation (ISDS applies to these) 9.1 Definitions - suspend “investment agreement” and “investment authorisation” and associated Footnotes (5 - 11) 9.19.1 Submission of Claim to

The Japanese government has posted a list of "Suspended Provisions" in the TPP. As I understand it, this means the provisions will be suspended if the TPP-11 go forward with the agreement, but could be restored if the U.S. decides to join later. Some of the most

In response to my post of the other day, Müslüm Yilmaz of the WTO (and also a commenter on the post) point me to this book: Domestic Judicial Review of Trade Remedies: Experiences of the Most Active WTO Members Trade remedies, namely anti-dumping, countervailing measures and safeguards, are one of

It seems as though the TPP may be going forward, but is being rebranded slightly: Countries in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal have agreed on the core elements to move ahead without the United States, officials said on Saturday, after last-minute resistance from Canada raised new doubts about

This is from my friend Luke Peterson of Investment Arbitration Reporter Freelance analyst wanted Investment Arbitration Reporter is looking for one or more persons to join our team of freelance contributors We offer specialized reporting on developments in the field of international investment law. We read and digest legal pleadings

That last post has me thinking about domestic judicial review of AD/CVD measures. AD Agreement Article 13 says: "Each Member whose national legislation contains provisions on anti-dumping measures shall maintain judicial, arbitral or administrative tribunals or procedures for the purpose, inter alia, of the prompt review of administrative

A couple of my Cato colleagues and I are working on some data on NAFTA Chapter 19 disputes, but it has been slow going. In the meantime, a trade lawyer who prefers to remain anonymous put together some data and sent it to me. Taking into account NAFTA Chapter 19