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Simon Lester

Simon Lester

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

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Call for Papers - Regional Trade Agreements

The Public Law Review, one of the student-edited journals at Saint Louis University Law School, is organizing a symposium in Spring 2008 on regional trade agreements and their social, political, and environmental implications. The title is: The Changing Tide of Trade: Social, Political, and Environmental Implications of Regional Trade

More on Trade Measures and the Environment

Past blog discussions on trade measures designed to promote environmental protection have focused on proposals by Joseph Stiglitz and various EU officials (see here, here, here and here). Now it seems that the U.S. is getting into the act. Retaliatory steps that comply with world trade rules could be

The Gambling Case: Both Tracks Moving Forward

Both tracks of the Gambling case continue to move ahead, with the parties still trying to reach agreement (and not getting that close, it seems). With regard to the U.S. withdrawal of its Gambling services commitments, the Financial Times reports that the U.S. compensation proposal to the EU

From Dubai Ports to Dubai Stocks

One of the earliest topics on this blog was the Dubai Ports controversy (see here, here and here). Now another Dubai company's purchase of U.S. assets is in the news: "Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. struck a complex deal to sell a 20 percent stake to the

New WTO Docs

For those who are interested, here is China's WTO consultations request related to U.S. AD/CVDs on coated paper: http://www.worldtradelaw.net/cr/ds368-1(cr).pdf Also of interest is Korea's notification of an other appeal in the Japan - DRAMS CVDs case. A

More Appellate Body Nominations

Over at the International Law Reporter blog, Jacob Katz Cogan reports that: China also submitted two nominations: Zhang Yuejiao (a law professor and former government official who was also nominated for an earlier opening) and Zhang Yuqing (an attorney and former government official). Japan has nominated Shotaro Oshima, its former

More from the BusinessWeek Gambling Debate

Yesterday I mentioned the BusinessWeek debate on how the U.S. should respond to the WTO Gambling decision. The user comments on the debate continue, and I found one aspect somewhat interesting. One of the comments came from a "G Clark," who I think was one of the

The "Wrath" of the WTO

It sounds like a Star Trek movie, but it's actually from a BusinessWeek debate sub-titled "The U.S. should heed the wrath of the World Trade Organization by making betting games legal on the Web. Pro or con?" For the "pro" side was

Appellate Body Nominations

In a previous post, I mentioned that the following AB members will be stepping down soon: * Merit Janow, United States (December 10, 2007) * Yasuhei Taniguchi, Japan (December 10, 2007) * Georges Abi-Saab, Egypt (May 31, 2008) * A.V. Ganesan, India (May 31, 2008) The WTO now reports the following about

Agricultural Subsidies and Dumping

When there are accusations of "dumping" in foreign markets as a result of agricultural subsidies, it is usually the U.S. and EU and other rich countries that are accused of wrongdoing. So I thought it was interesting to see that India was being accused of the same