More on Free Trade in Environmental Goods
This proposal related to free trade in environmental goods, from Sweden's National Board of Trade, may be more politically palatable than the one I recently put forward:
Simon Lester
Email Wars?
Last week, I mentioned Brazilian requirements for local data storage. What does everyone think about this new proposal out of Brazil to create an email competitor to the major U.S. email providers:
The Brazilian government is planning to develop a national email system that is protected from the sort
Requirements for Local Data Storage
From the Washington Post:
The [Brazilian] government is now introducing changes in the project that are quite problematic. One of them mandates that companies that store any type of Brazilian data have their servers physically located in Brazil. The idea of the government is that having the servers here will
Some TPP and Tobacco Articles: Should There be a "Carve-Out"?
-- The WSJ: "The entire point of free-trade negotiations is to remove these political obstacles to investment and the movement of goods across borders. The tobacco carve-out is especially counterproductive because its economic importance is so small. The Obama Administration shouldn't let anti-smoking activists interfere with America&
TPP Event on September 20
As you may have heard, we are now in the TPP "end game." What does that mean exactly? Will we have a completed TPP by the end of the year, as some have indicated? Or will the pace be more Doha-like?
For those of you in the DC
The Return of Zeroing
I hope everyone enjoyed a nice break from zeroing cases. But you didn't think they were gone forever, did you? There's a whole category left to deal with! This is from the DS464 consultations request, dealing with AD measures on washers:
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Call for Papers: Sociological Inquiries into International Law
From Sungjoon Cho:
The aim of this workshop is to help bring contemporary international law scholarship into a closer conversation with a number of inspiring and theoretically rich literatures on law and markets deriving from traditions of thinking within sociology and anthropology. We are convinced that, particularly within the field
Do WTO Disputes Increase Trade?
It seems obvious that a successful WTO complaint, properly implemented by the responding party, would bring down trade barriers and increase trade. But a recent paper by some political scientists calls that into question:
To assess whether disputes increase trade, we analyze detailed data on imports values at the country-product-year
The ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law
From the folks at ELSA:
The European Law Students’ Association (ELSA), as the world’s largest non-political law student’s association, will launch the 12th edition of the prestigious ELSA Moot Competition on WTO law in cooperation with the WTO itself, on the 15th of September 2013. The competition is
Clove Cigarettes Confusion
I thought I understood the Clove Cigarettes compliance/suspension process, but based on the U.S. statement at today's DSB meeting, I'm no longer sure that I do:
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