Simon Lester

From the U.S. - Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties (China) (DS379) AB report: 498. We do not consider that the Panel was wrong in drawing a distinction between a government's role in implementing monetary policy, on the one hand, and market distortions that may result from governmental participation

In today's U.S. - Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties (China) Appellate Body report, the Appellate Body reversed the panel's findings on the issue of "double remedies" (see a prior post here).  The panel had found no violation.  The Appellate Body found instead that "

With my usual disclaimer about how little I know about international law generally, reading over the "countermeasures" part of the Cargill NAFTA Chapter 11 Award, I was struck by the strange wording that is used to describe the concept.  Here's a passage from the Award: 382.

Speaking of unilateral tariffs, like the kind proposed by Ian Fletcher as mentioned in the last post, writing in the NY Times last September Alan Tonelson and Kevin Kearns had this to say: America needs more sweeping and proactive tariffs on foreign goods and services that compete directly with existing

Are we seeing a resurgence of protectionist thinking?  Via Todd Tucker, here is Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt criticizing the economic arguments for free trade: ... economists view the world as a giant cattle farm to be managed in ways that maximize the collective weight of the cattle, totally in abstraction from

A couple months ago, I did a post about whether clove cigarettes encourage kids to try smoking, and said that this could be a key issue in the Clove Cigarettes WTO case.  It looks like the Panel in that case is thinking about this issue as well.  Here's