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It might be fair to say that the worst did not happen.  This weekend, both leaders of the United States and China agreed to put a “temporary truce” in the ever-escalating bilateral trade conflicts.  In a nut shell, the current level (10%) of the U.S. retaliatory tariffs against Chinese

This is what Scott Lincicome has recently observed in his policy brief (The “Protectionist Moment” That Wasn’t: American Views on Trade and Globalization).  It is a mega-survey of five recent surveys (Pew; WSJ/NBC News; Gallup; Monmouth; the Chicago Council) on the American attitude toward foreign trade and globalization.

These are some of new information technology (IT) products covered by the newly struck expanded version of the WTO IT Agreement.  This is what the WTO head said:  “Annual trade in these 201 products is valued at over $1.3 trillion per year, and accounts for approximately 7% of total

In an earlier post, Simon referred to the recent ASIL Unbound discussion on the Seal case.  Indeed, I found the discussion very helpful and suggest everyone visit the site.  There are so many issues there, but let me focus on one particular issue, that is whether the Appellate Body (AB)

The answer is NO according to an interesting paper (Is the WTO Passé?, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper (WPS 7304), June 2015) co-written by Kyle Bagwell, Chad Bown and Robert Staiger.  This paper sheds new light on the relevancy of the WTO as an engine of trade liberalization.  It

The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Parliament proposed to ban the sale and import of cloned animals and their products (meat and milk).  In 2013, the European Commission advanced a similar proposal. Some languages of

A new Appellate Body report has upheld a panel report that had struck down an Indian ban on the U.S. agricultural products due to concerns related to the Avian flu.  One of issues appealed regarded SPS Article 5.6 (“…Members shall ensure that such measures are not more trade-restrictive

Call for Papers Sociological Inquiries into International Law II 9-10 October 2015 Workshop Theme A growing community of scholars is bringing international law into conversation with sociological research and theory. Major developments over the past years have come from studies across all subfields of international law, from human rights and

Yesterday (January 13), the European Parliament passed a legislative resolution regarding the “possibility for the Member States to restrict or prohibit the cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in their territory.”  The gist of this legislation is that the EU member states may ban GMOs for non-scientific (such as cultural

Christian Schmidt, the German agriculture minister, reportedly said that "if we want to take advantage of the opportunities of free trade with the huge American market, we can no longer have every type of sausage and cheese each protected as a speciality."  Well, I doubt that most European