Simon Lester

A couple weeks ago, Reuters had this to say about the proposed Interagency Trade Enforcement Center: Acting Commerce Deputy Secretary Rebecca Blank said $24 million of the new funding would go to the Commerce Department's International Trade Administration (ITA) and the remaining $2 million to the U.S.

Via a Luke Peterson tweet, I see this from Reuters: The United States could soon suspend trade benefits for Argentina because of that country's failure to pay awards in two long-running investment disputes with U.S. companies, a U.S. trade official said on Monday. "We

Speaking of part-time jobs for grad students (and others), as I was in the last post, my friend Luke Peterson is also looking for someone: Freelance researchers/reporters wanted Investment Arbitration Reporter is looking for one or more individuals to join our small team of specialized journalists. Our contributors

From the JIEL: Editorial Assistant Position with the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL) Professor John H. Jackson, University Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center, is currently collecting recommendations or applications from persons who might wish to take on the position of Editorial Assistant to the Journal of International

Recall from these two posts that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled last year that the Department of Commerce can't take an inconsistent approach to zeroing -- no zeroing in investigations, but zeroing in administrative reviews -- without a good reason. The CAFC remanded

Scott Lincicome points to the new CVD-NME legislation, as well as a summary, that has been in the news today. In this post, I'm going to talk briefly about how the legislation deals with the "double remedies" issue, in relation to the Appellate Body'

From a group of economists: We, the undersigned economists, write to you regarding the capital transfers provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). We are concerned that if recent U.S. treaties are used as the model for the TPPA, the agreement will unduly limit the authority of

By executive order today, President Obama established the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center.  Its purpose: Mission and Functions. The Center shall: (a) serve as the primary forum within the Federal Government for USTR and other agencies to coordinate enforcement of U.S. trade rights under international trade agreements and enforcement of

From a report entitled "Enough is Enough: Confronting Chinese Innovation Mercantilism," by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation: Empower U.S. Firms to Defend Their Collective Interests Against Chinese Mercantilism The federal government also needs to empower U.S. firms to more effectively defend their interest when dealing

As I've mentioned before, investor-state provisions in the KORUS FTA remain controversial.  But it seems that investor-state is not a problem in other contexts: Five years of negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty among Korea, China and Japan will be concluded at the 13th round of