Sungjoon Cho

The next House majority leader, Representative Kevin McCarthy, has recently shocked the U.S. business community by stating that he would oppose the U.S. Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank being reauthorized in the fall.  He said that “one of the biggest problems of government is they go and take hard-earned money

The United States has recently made an emphatic argument that “non-violation” complaints should be allowed under TRIPS (IP/C/W/599).  These complaints have been under a moratorium since the creation of TRIPS.  Traditionally, non-violation complaints were tied closely to tariff concessions (trade in goods) and subsequent legitimate expectations flowing

Maybe.  Here go some excerpts from a recent report by the U.S. House Appropriations Committee.      Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL).—The Committee is aware that the governments of Canada and Mexico have challenged a final rule published in the Federal Register on May 24, 2013, (78 Fed. Reg.

Folks, this is quite interesting.  The EU member states have just struck a compromise on the GMO regulation by providing individual member states with options to exclude the GMO importation.  (This deal is subject to subsequent legislative procedures involving the Commission and the European Parliament.)  Note that this is not

The long-awaited Appellate Body (AB) report on the Seal dispute has just come out.  There have already been several postings on this report.  Let me focus on one particular issue: the “chapeau” test. In a nutshell, the AB integrated two strands of case law on the chapeau test (one in

The aim of this workshop is to help bring contemporary international law scholarship into a closer conversation with a number of inspiring and theoretically rich literatures on law and markets deriving from traditions of thinking within sociology and anthropology.  We are convinced that, particularly within the field of international economic

The answer is NO, according to our own Simon Lester.  In his posting on the Huffington Post today, Simon presented an excellent case for multilateralism.  In particular, Simon underscored various multilateral disciplines unique to the WTO, such as those governing customs administration and trade remedies (antidumping and subsidies).  In this

In a likely response to the U.S.-led “Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),” China mulls the formation of an “Asia-Pacific Free Trade Agreement (FTAAP).”  China’s assistant commerce minister, Wang Shouwen, reportedly stated that a working group might be established to discuss the feasibility of the FTAAP.  Wang was quoted to

My apologies if the title of this post ever disappoints sci-fi fans, but certain cashmere yarns from all over the world have now had an opportunity to trek to South Korea, and eventually to the United States. A number of regional trading agreements (RTAs) contain the “yarn-forwarding” rule.  This rule

The answer may depend on whom you ask.  Indeed, against the background of the recent TPP negotiation this particular origin rule offers a unique lens through which one can investigate a complex relationship of free trade, political economy and trade regionalism. According to Lien Hoang of the Bloomberg BNA, amid