Sungjoon Cho

The final panel report on the EU-Biotech dispute has just been released. http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news06_e/291r_e.htm    I found this report politically savvy but legally ambivalent. First, a moratorium, whether de facto or de jure, is a "ban" or a "

Dr. Fred Bergsten, Director of the Institute for International Economics, wrote in Financial Times that a grand Asia-Pacific regional bloc, i.e., "Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific Region (FTAAP)," should be launched as a "Plan B" in the face of the moribund Doha Round. See

On July 24, 2006, Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), declared de facto dead the troubled Doha round trade talks which has been conducted since 2001. This news sounds so disappointing in that WTO Members failed to deliver what they have already prepared, and in a sense

On May 23-24, 2006, the Sixth Annual WTO Conference was held in London, organized by the Institute of International Economic Law (in Georgetown Law Center) and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Many interesting, and pressing, issues, ranging from judicial economy to treaty interpretation to regulatory convergence to

On May 23, 2006 an interesting workshop was held at East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School to discuss China’s recent effort to enact an Anti-Monopoly Law. Despite some predicaments (such as an internal bureaucratic battle over the jurisdiction), some predict that the Law may be passed some time

There has been a growing tenstion between the U.S. and the EU over their diverging regulatory stances over various issues, such as GM food, which have negatively affected the transatlantic trade. This tenstion is likely only to be intensified as the EU is enlarged. See Washington bridles at EU

On April 18, 2006, the Appellate Body (AB) released its decision on the U.S. "zeroing" dispute which the EU initiated. (UNITED STATES – LAWS, REGULATIONS AND METHODOLOGY FOR CALCULATING DUMPING MARGINS ("ZEROING"), WT/DS294/AB/R) http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/294abr_

The U.S. and the EU announced that they filed a complaint against China under the WTO dispute settlement system over China’s alleged unfair treatment of foreign auto parts. http://www.ustr.gov/Document_Library/Press_Releases/2006/March/United_States_Files_WTO_Case_Against_China_Over_Treatment_of_

Two interesting proposals have recently emerged in an attempt to save thousands of lives in poor countries who are suffering from fatal diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria. First, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and representatives from 95 countries gathered in Paris today to study France's "

On February 14, 2006 the USTR released a comprehensive review of the U.S.-China trade relation in a report titled “U.S.-China Trade Relations: Entering a New Phase of Greater Accountability and Enforcement.” (http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Document_Library/Reports_Publications/2006/asset_upload_file921_8938.pdf)