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Simon Lester

The Real World Impact of WTO Rulings: Chiquita

Reuters reports: Shares of banana importer Chiquita Brands International Inc jumped over 9 percent on Tuesday on reports a World Trade Organization panel has ruled in favor of Ecuador in a challenge to the EU's banana tariff policy. Oppenheimer analyst Barry Sine said in a note to clients

Hillary Clinton Talks Trade with the FT

Hillary Clinton did an interview with the FT on trade and economic issues. I'll probably come back to this later, but one thing she said jumped out at me and I wanted to mention it here: And I agree with Paul Samuelson, the very famous economist, who has

One More Question from the Republican Debate

One more trade related question from the CNN/YouTube Republican debate: YouTube question: Good evening, candidates. This is (inaudible) from Arlington, Texas, and this question is for Ron Paul. I've met a lot of your supporters online, but I've noticed that a good number of them

The Zeroing Negotiations

From the draft consolidated texts on anti-dumping and subsidies and countervailing measures circulated by the WTO today, there's this new provision that appears to govern zeroing: 2.4.3 When the authorities aggregate the results of multiple comparisons in order to establish the existence or extent of a

The Real World Impact of WTO Rulings

Yesterday, the Appellate Body upheld many of the violations found in an earlier panel report relating to Japan's countervailing duties on Korean DRAMS. Today, the markets reacted: Seoul shares gained more than 2 percent on Thursday, as local institutional investors chased beaten-down blue chips and chip maker Hynix

Some Upcoming Trade Events in Geneva

From Jalal Alavi, three upcoming trade events in Geneva: * World Trade Report 2007 Tuesday, 4 December 2007 11.30 am WTO Headquarters – Centre William Rappard Conference Room II Programme Chair: Keith Rockwell, Director Information and Media Relations 11.30 -11.45 Introductory Remarks Director-General, Pascal Lamy 11.45 -12.30

From Last Night's Republican Debate

Some trade questions from last night's Republican Presidential debate: On agriculture subsidies: Ted Faturos: Hi, I'm Ted Faturos from Manhattan Beach, California. Mmmmmm, nothing says delicious like cheap corn subsidized by the American taxpayer. For a lot of Americans, however, a bitter taste is left in

Coming Soon: The Brazil - Tyres AB Report

On December 3, the Appellate Body is scheduled to issue the Brazil - Tyres report. There will be a lot of things said about GATT Article XX, all of which should be interesting and informative. In addition, though, there is a slight posssiblity that the AB will clarify GATT Article

Categories

I've added categories to the blog (see previous post for an example). It would be too much to go back and classify all the previous posts (510 of them) in particular categories, but hopefully this will be useful going forward.

Environmental Dumping?

This sounds like something along the lines of what Joseph Stiglitz had in mind: [The European Parliament invites the European Commission] to consider whether it would be appropriate to evaluate the rules on trade defence measures, such as the rules on anti-dumping or subsidies, under the WTO aegis, with a