Simon Lester

This is from the Australian Parliament web site: Twelve countries are involved in the TPP negotiations but most market access issues are negotiated at a bilateral level—that is, country to country. And here are some specifics from a CRS report: Negotiating the terms of agricultural trade liberalization within the

For those of you trying to figure out where the Trump administration is going with trade policy, here are a few tidbits from Sean Spicer (the White House press secretary) at yesterday's press conference: QUESTION: (inaudible) news. After the executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the TPP,

Here it is: Regarding Withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Agreement MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE SUBJECT:                    Withdrawal of the United States from the                                     Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations                                     and Agreement It is the policy of my Administration to represent the American people

I haven't seen the presidential memo yet, but Inside US Trade reports: President Trump on Jan. 23 signed a presidential memo formally withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, assuring the Obama administration's flagship trade agreement will not come into force as negotiated and

A few people I know who are big supporters of North American integration worried a bit about what the TPP might do to NAFTA.  To some extent, it seemed as though NAFTA would get folded into the TPP.  If that happened, would everybody just forget about NAFTA?  The momentum for

Here's the latest WTO complaint, brought by the U.S. against various British Columbian measures governing the sale of wine in grocery stores: The BC wine measures provide advantages to BC wine through the granting of exclusive access to a retail channel of selling wine on grocery store

Investment Arbitration Reporter has a piece on a recent award involving a counterclaim by a state against an investor. Jarrod Hepburn explains: As discussed in a companion article, a tribunal at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has found one discrete breach of the Spain-Argentina bilateral

Donald Trump has suggested he would impose tariffs on car imports from specific companies who produce in Mexico and export to the United States. Ford, GM, and Toyota have all been mentioned. Here is his Toyota tweet: Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build

According to this Reuters article, some foreign investors in Mexico are having financial difficulties as a result of Ford's decision -- partly in response to statements by Donald Trump -- not to build a planned factory there: Ford Motor Co's (F.N) abrupt move to scrap a planned

This is from a new paper by Emma Aisbett and Lauge Poulsen, called "Relative Treatment of Aliens: Firm-level Evidence from Developing Countries": Foreign firms are subject to a wide range of political risks when operating in developing countries that lack strong property rights institutions. Important insights about