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Simon Lester

Export Quotas and Production Quotas

The WTO's World Trade Report 2010 is full of interesting trade tidbits. To the extent I have time, I'll pull some out over the next few months. This is from Chapter E of the report: in the absence of domestic consumption, a domestic production quota is

Privatizing General Motors

From the AP: General Motors has filed the first batch of paperwork needed to sell stock to the public. GM filed the paperwork for its initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. The company says the U.S. government and other stakeholders will sell common shares

Trade in Everything: Really Old Guns

This is from David Kopel at the Volokh Conspiracy: According to The Korea Times, the Obama administration has blocked efforts by the South Korean government to sell over a hundred thousand surplus M1 Garand and Carbine rifles into the United States market. These self-loading were rifles introduced in 1926 and

"French Industrial Patriotism"

Not very subtle: Embattled President Nicolas Sarkozy's industry minister, Christian Estrosi, said he's taking action next month because major companies are "not behaving very well" in the face of chronically high unemployment. "I will set up a new monitoring agency for French products

Careers in International Arbitration

International Law Section / International Dispute Resolution Committee And the American Society of International Law/ Dispute Resolution Interest Group Jointly Sponsor a Brown Bag Program Careers in International Arbitration for Young Lawyers? The International Dispute Resolution Committee of the DC Bar and the American Society of International Law jointly invite you

Presidential Discretion to Lower Tariffs

In the comments, Susan Aaronson asks: Can your readers please answer this question. Could the US President temporarily lower tariffs (to all countries) on his own without Congressional approval (under executive order). Perhaps he could justify it as a means of stimulating exports or to encourage development. I am not

More on the Indian Visa Fee Issue

I mentioned the other day a U.S. Senate bill that funded border security by taxing visa applications for skilled workers coming to the U.S. Well, now the bill has been signed into law, so maybe it's worth a little more detailed discussion. In my earlier post,

Scott Lincicome on Concurrent AD/CVD Cases and Double Counting

I was thinking of posting something on the recent U.S. Court of International Trade decision in the GPX case, which deals with the issue of concurrent AD/CVD cases related to non-market economies, and problems that arise with double counting the remedy. I couldn't quite face trying

Coming Soon: Treatment of Non-Market Economies under WTO AD Rules

Reuters reports on the interim report in DS397 (EC - AD Measures on Fasteners): In particular [the Panel] rejected the EU's approach to non-market economies, which effectively applies a single anti-dumping duty to the whole country rather than for individual firms, unless they can prove that they are

Australia to Appeal the Apples Panel Report

That was quick: Australia will appeal a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that tough restrictions on the importation of New Zealand apples are unduly restrictive on trade. A decision by the WTO's panel of independent arbitrators recommended overnight "that the dispute settlement body request Australia to bring