Simon Lester

This is from the White House fact sheet on the KORUS FTA: Automotive Safety Standards:  Safety standards have effectively operated as a non-tariff barrier to U.S. auto exports.  The 2010 supplemental agreement announced today allows for 25,000 cars per U.S. automaker – or almost four times the number

Is the BIT investment claim by Philip Morris against Uruguay going to make it difficult to get investor-state in the TPP? From an NZ online publication: The Greens have stepped up their attack on a planned trans-Pacific free trade zone after tobacco giant Philip Morris called for the right to

I'm not sure I understand this article from the Philadelphia Inquirer: The 150,000 shiny new Hyundai and Kia cars expected to arrive annually through the Port of Philadelphia will not be hurt by a proposed free-trade agreement between the Obama administration and South Korea, officials said. Since

Just temporarily, I assume: Brazil froze all investigations of dumping practices by other countries after a presidential decree in October prohibited the tax agency from sharing information, Trade Minister Miguel Jorge said. About 70 probes cannot be completed without data such as the amount of goods imported and the price

Some further thoughts on Paul Krugman's suggestion that "[a] countervailing duty on Chinese exports would be job-creating." First off, I don't think he had in mind countervailing duties imposed pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930.  I think he just meant "slap a

From Paul Krugman: One thing I’m hearing, now that all hope of useful fiscal policy is gone, is the idea that trade can be a driver of recovery — that stuff like the South Korea trade agreement can serve as a form of macro policy. Um, no. ... There is a

As everyone has probably heard by now, U.S. and Korean negotiators were able to work out a deal on an FTA.  Reuters reports: The United States and South Korea have reached a deal on auto issues that have blocked congressional approval of a free trade agreement for three years,