Simon Lester

In a comment on one of Sungjoon's recent posts, I said the following in response to an earlier comment: ... while a WTO agreement on currencies would be difficult, I think some rules could be worked out on what constitutes "manipulation" or "misalignment." As to

For those who want to know what's in the new China currency bill but don't want to read the bill itself, Dan Ikenson of the Cato Institute has some analysis and commentary.  His view of the bill:  "Despite some harsh provisions, it could have been

We are starting a new blog related to this one.  It will be similar in substantive scope, although much different in nature.  The idea is to make it more of a news-reporting blog, with law (and other) students doing the posting.  We have it going now in "beta&

Several members of the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced the Border Tax Equity Act: A bipartisan quartet of Congressmen today introduced legislation that would levy a border tax on imported goods unless the U.S. Trade Representative negotiates with other countries to end their border taxes on U.

Under the SCM Agreement, there is no need to demonstrate "adverse effects" for subsidies in the prohibited category and there are shorter than normal time-frames for compliance where these subsidies have been found in violation.  As a result, complaints under the prohibited category are much more attractive

Andrew Guzman proposes a change to the standard of review for certain SPS cases: This Article proposes that the DSB should apply a more deferential standard of review when evaluating: (1) the level of risk a state is prepared to tolerate; (2) scientific data; and (3) the relationship between the

The week began with Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post taking a forceful position against China's currency policies, in an article entitled "Forget Revaluation. Hit China With Tariffs."  The title makes his position pretty clear, but he elaborated as follows: The American challenge is to slow

At the risk of my posts on this blog turning into Dani Rodrik comments exclusively, I have a comment on a short post he did on globalization and income inequality.  He refers to a Wall Street Journal article called "Globalization's Gains Come with a Price," and