Simon Lester

This is from President Obama's weekly address: ...  today, I’m announcing that the Department of Energy is awarding nearly $2 billion in conditional commitments to two solar companies. The first is Abengoa Solar, a company that has agreed to build one of the largest solar plants in the

From the EC - Aircraft panel report: 7.648 Correctly interpreted, the legal standard set out in footnote 4 indicates that a subsidy may be found to be contingent in fact upon anticipated export performance, and therefore prohibited under Article 3.1(a), when there is evidence demonstrating the existence of

Here are the obvious ones I've seen so far in reading through the report. For the EU:  The finding that certain launch aid/member State financing constitutes prohibited export subsidies (paras. 7.582-716).  It would be nice for the EU to not have these subsidies classified as

Well, sort of.  This is from USTR: Participants stressed the importance of ACTA as an agreement that will establish an international framework for their efforts to more effectively combat the proliferation of counterfeiting and piracy, which undermines legitimate trade and the sustainable development of the world economy. I'm

Nothing that important, but a couple things of note. First, Boeing has provided a nice breakdown of the findings for each measure.  We often do this in our DSC, but they've saved us the trouble.  (I assume they got it right, but have not double-checked). Second, I&

It's out, and it's just about as long as they said it would be.  Here's the "abbreviated" version -- just the background and findings, with the parties' arguments and annexes taken out -- on our web site.  This version is "only"