Simon Lester

Here's more from the AB reasoning in Renewable Energy/Feed-In Tariffs: 5.174. In the present disputes, supply-side factors suggest that windpower and solar PV producers of electricity cannot compete with other electricity producers because of differences in cost structures and operating costs and characteristics. Windpower and solar

THE ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT AND TRADE LAW 2013 Macau Cultural Centre 8th – 18th July 2013 Objectives: The Academy of International Investment and Trade Law, based in Macau and organized by the Institute of European Studies of Macau since, aims at providing education and training at the highest international standard

I'm still puzzling over the Appellate Body's reasoning on "benefit" under SCM Agreement Article 1.1(b) in the Renewable Energy/Feed-In Tariff case, mentioned in the last post (Luca Rubini is doing the same thing in his comment to the post).  Very briefly,

The AB report in Canada - Renewable Energy/Feed-In Tariffs has been circulated.  There's a lot to digest in the reasoning on "benefit," and I've only just skimmed it, but my impression is that they have tried to provide some flexibility under the SCM

Thanks again to Rob for all of his posts on the Seal Products hearing. Maybe some day WTO hearings will get press coverage that is as extensive as U.S. Supreme Court hearings, but for now that is not the case, so it was nice to have access to Rob&

From the WTO web site: Cuba notified the WTO Secretariat, on 3 May 2013, of a request for consultations with Australia on the Australian Tobacco Plain Packaging Act of 2011 that regulates the appearance and form of retail packaging used in connection with sales of cigars, cigarettes and other tobacco

This is from the second EU written submission in seal products: 199. Canada considers that the EU Seal Regime, through the IC exception, modifies the conditions of competition to the detriment of its imports when compared with imports of Greenland. Specifically, Canada suggests that, in the case of an origin-neutral

From CTV: A court has upheld the European Union's three-year-old ban on seal products, dealing another blow to Canada's embattled sealing industry. The General Court of the European Union issued a statement today saying it has rejected a challenge from a group that included the Canadian

A recent article argues that a lot of them are: we hypothesize that SPS notification activity is correlated with the amount of protectionism afforded traded agricultural products and with the level of demand for protectionism by agricultural producers. To test our claims, we assemble a dataset recording the annual number

This is from a new Peterson Institute paper: In a recent book, The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn’t, William Baumol reports some arresting numbers to illustrate the spiraling cost of key services which are plagued by slow productivity growth. Since the 1980s, the price