Simon Lester

This is a guest post by Philippe de Baere, Henry Gao, Todd Friedbacher, Iain Sandford, Nicolas Lockhart, Isabelle Van Damme, Tania Voon, Alan Yanovich[1] Ever since countries first agreed rules to regulate international trade, they have disagreed about what the rules mean.  International trade disputes raise sensitive political and

This is from Lance Compa of Cornell Law School: ... a more than two-months-long strike provoked by a multibillionaire Mexican business tycoon has cast a cloud over the new trade pact’s provisions to strengthen workers’ rights. Citing management’s bad-faith bargaining, nearly 2,000 workers have walked

This post is by law professors David Gantz and Sergio Puig Introduction The U.S. House of Representatives approved December 19 the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) by an overwhelming margin of 385-41. The Senate is expected to do the same in mid-January. As everyone knows by

This is a guest post from law professor Bashar H. Malkawi: Japan imposed tighter export control measures on chemicals used by South Korean companies to produce semiconductors and smart phones and TV displays. In addition, Japan removed South Korea from a "white list" of twenty-seven preferential trading

In October of 2017, I noted that U.S. Trade Representative Bob Lighthizer said he hoped to “get back to the days where there was a substantial majority of people in both parties that voted for these trade agreements,” adding “that is my objective right now. I want to have