Simon Lester

My reading of the terms of the "provisional" agreement signed last week between the U.S. and EU on the WTO beef hormones dispute was that some small steps had been taken, but there was still a lot of work to be done.  In particular, the key issue

Not so good for at least one Canadian company: A Toronto company that has been exporting pipe to the United States market for 60 years recently landed a contract to supply plastic piping for a new health-care centre at the Camp Pendleton Marine base in California. But the piping is

The Ottawa Citizen makes the case: Using trade-law arguments to force Europe to accept seal-hunt products from Canada, while tempting, could ultimately do more harm than good for trade in general. Opponents of free-trade agreements have long argued that such agreements have the potential to undermine national sovereignty. By invoking

From Reuters: Ashton, who took over from Peter Mandelson last October, said a "new spirit" of transatlantic cooperation had been fostered by the U.S. administration under President Barack Obama. So-called "carousel" duties from the United States in the beef dispute were one of then U.

BIICL's 9th Annual WTO Conference will be held in London on May 20-21.  It has the usual outstanding group of participants: Welcome Professor John H. Jackson, Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law Center The Rt Honourable Sir Francis G. Jacobs KCMG QC, King's College