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Simon Lester

Angela Ellard on Misperceptions in the US/Capitol Hill about the WTO

At an AEI/Brookings event yesterday, WTO DDG Angela Ellard spoke and offered some interesting insights into how people in the U.S. (and elsewhere) misunderstand the WTO: Neena Shenai: I wanted to turn to your perspectives on the WTO, given your experience and your personal experience on Capitol Hill.

Tweaking the MPIA Procedures

The Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement Pursuant To Article 25 of the DSU is here. Annex 1 contains a set of Agreed Procedures that can be used for these arbitrations. Interestingly, the procedures agreed to recently in specific WTO disputes are deviating from Annex 1 in one specific area. Here&

Guest Post: The Worst of Two Worlds: Why the US Blueprint for a Transatlantic Climate Club Authored by Todd Tucker & Tim Meyer Must Be Binned Immediately

This is a guest post by David Kleimann, PhD, writing in personal capacity. He wishes to thank Aaron Cosbey and Simon Lester for helpful comments on an early draft of this post. All errors remain the author’s alone. He would also like to thank Todd Tucker and Tim Meyer

More Hurdles for the "Green Steel Deal"

This is from a CFR blog post by Jennifer Hillman and Alex Tippett on the "green steel deal": For the proposed U.S.-EU agreement on green steel and aluminum be successful, however, it will have to avoid several potential pitfalls. First, the deal cannot devolve into a

ITC Institutes Investigation on Distributional Effects of Goods and Services Trade and Trade Policy

Back in mid-October, USTR asked the ITC to carry out a two-part investigation of the distributional effects of goods and services trade and trade policy. The ITC just announced that it would undertake this investigation. The Notice of Investigation is here. There has been a lot of good economic literature

Solar Safeguards and Compensation

In keeping an eye on trade disputes in the pipeline, I was recently looking over the USMCA Chapter 31 complaint brought by Canada against the U.S. solar safeguard measures. I haven't read the submissions closely enough to have a view on who is right and who is

Webinar on the Appellate Body Crisis

Srikar Mysore Sridhar has organized a webinar on the Appellate Body crisis at Harvard's Kennedy School tomorrow (November 19, 2021 at 10 am EST (4 pm Geneva Time, 8.30 pm IST)). Cherise Valles will be moderating, and Peter Van Den Bossche, Joost Pauwelyn and I will be

Call for Papers: Workshop on The Political and Legal Theory of International Courts and Tribunals Oslo

From PluriCourts: The research Centre PluriCourts is planning a multidisciplinary workshop on international courts and tribunals which will take place 20. - 21. June 2022 in Oslo. The workshop will bring together scholars of philosophy, legal theory, and political theory who study regional and international courts and tribunals, and in

Some Comments on a New Foreign Affairs Piece Discussing Trade and Climate Change

All these recent debates I've had with Tim Meyer and Todd Tucker on trade policy and climate change have me thinking about these issues generally, and I had a few comments on a new piece in Foreign Affairs by political science professor Jessica Green that touches on all

More on the U.S.-EU Section 232 Deal Affecting Carbon Emissions: A Response to the Response by Tim and Todd

Thanks to Tim Meyer and Todd Tucker for taking the time to respond to my questions about how the U.S.-EU Section 232 deal could lower carbon emissions. Not surprisingly, their response raises more questions for me, and I am still skeptical that this new arrangement will lead to