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Simon Lester

Simon Lester

Co-founder of WorldTradeLaw.net and China Trade Monitor. Non-resident fellow at the Baker Institute.

http://simonlester.com

The Candidates' Advisers on Trade

One of our readers pointed me to a recent panel discussion at the Institute for Policy Innovation on "Where the Candidates Stand on Trade." It was quite good, I thought. Here are some excerpts, but it's worth skimming through the whole thing, including the Q &

SIEL Conference Update

From The SIEL Conference Committee: Society of International Economic Law - Conference Booking Arrangements For those of you who are planning to attend SIEL's Inaugural Conference in Geneva on July 15-17 this year, we strongly suggest that you register and book your travel and accommodation as early as

Play Ball: MLB and the WTO

With the U.S. professional baseball season under way this week, I was happy to come across a reason for a blog post about baseball. A Time magazine article reports that Japan's professional baseball league is complaining about the trade impact of Major League Baseball (MLB), after MLB

The AB Appointments Crisis: The DSB Discussion

The minutes of the DSB meeting discussing the last round of AB appointments, involving Taiwan's objections, are now available: http://www.worldtradelaw.net/dsbminutes/m242.pdf See Item 1 of the agenda.

Obama on the Tanker Deal

From the AP: An Iraq war veteran at the town hall asked [Senator Obama's] opinion of a recent decision by the Pentagon to award a a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract to a consortium led by Airbus , located in Europe , over a bid led by U.S.

Trade in Everything: Canadian Mounties

From the Economist: THE Caribbean island of Antigua is an odd place to find a Mountie, with not a horse or a snowflake in sight. But three former officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police this month began a two-year stint reforming the island's chaotic constabulary. They

About that Gambling Settlement ...

... doesn't look like it is going to happen: The deadline for the US to put forward a proposal to settle its long running Internet gambling dispute passed yesterday with Antigua and Barbuda reportedly receiving no word from the US. Up to late yesterday, neither Antigua and Barbuda’s

Ways and Means: More Complaints, Please

From a letter to President Bush from the House Ways and Means Committee: The Appendix to this letter contains a compilation of a number of the most persistent barriers to trade, and proposed causes of action to address each. These matters are long overdue for effective action by the Administration.

Hormones Headlines

Which side won in the WTO decisions in the Hormones Sanctions case, released today? Let's take a look at the headlines: From the IHT/AP: "WTO backs US, Canada in beef dispute with EU, but both sides claim victory" From the Guardian/Reuters: "WTO rebukes

Back to the Future of Outsourcing

Via Marginal Revolution, this is from economist Glen Whitman: If backward time travel is also somehow possible, maybe firms in the future will choose to outsource some of their operations to the past, locating their manufacturing and other services in lower-wage time periods. This opens the possibility of transtemporal