Simon Lester

The big trade news over the weekend was a resolution of the U.S. - EU Section 232 tariff disputes. Two key documents are this USTR fact sheet and this EU-US joint statement. The core of the agreement is as follows: The United States will replace the existing tariffs on

From the ACWL: The ACWL is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. To celebrate this occasion, we are hosting a webinar on 28 October from 15:00 to 16:30 CET on the “ACWL: Achievements for Developing Countries and LDCs and Challenges Ahead”.  We are delighted to have Professor Peter

From the SIEL: SIEL October ConversationThe Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) is pleased to invite you to its February Conversation entitled ‘Institutions and Dispute Settlement under WTO’, with  Geraldo Vidigal (University of Amsterdam),  Tommaso Soave (Central European University; Former WTO Appellate Body Secretariat), Marcus Gustafsson (Legal Service of the

I wanted to elaborate on a point I made in my post from last week, where I discussed U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai's response to my question about ways to improve the WTO panel process. As a reminder, here's what she was asked and how

USTR has just requested that the ITC carry out the following two-part investigation of distributional effects of goods and services trade and trade policy: under authority delegated by the President to the United States Trade Representative and pursuant to Section 332(g) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.

This is a guest post from law professor Luca Rubini: In yesterday’s speech in Geneva, Ambassador Katherine Tai, the current USTR, said: “Reforming dispute settlement is not about restoring the Appellate Body for its own sake, or going back to the way it used to be.   It is about