Sungjoon Cho

Tons of money flowed from the government (tax payers’ money!) to large banks in the United States and Europe to fight against financial crises.  The IMF has recently issued a report in which it calculated the size of such bailouts as well as proposed some reform agendas.  Interestingly, the IMF

Today the DC Circuit vacated (per curiam) its previous three-judge panel decision on March 28 (American Meat Institute v. Dep’t of Agriculture, No. 13-5281, Slip Op. at 14, n.1 (D.C. Cir. Mar. 28, 2014), and decided to rehear this case en banc.  (See also Andrew Zajac, Meat

Daniel Ikenson (Cato Institute) made an insightful observation in a blog post (“WTO Indictment of Chinese Export Restrictions Unearths U.S. Hypocrisy”).  Here are some excerpts from his post. “During the last decade (2000-2009), four out of every five antidumping measures (79.4%) were imposed on imported intermediate goods.  Over

Finally, a happy ending!  The Bali package has been delivered after a couple of serious last-minute hiccups, such as here and here.  Concededly, the Bali package is subject to the typical half-full/half-empty evaluation.  True, the Bali Ministerial Conference was originally designed to be sort of “rescue exercise” even at

The longest trade round ever is now facing its Hamletian moment.  The hard-won optimism under the new WTO leadership has recently evaporated as a thorny issue of food security remains contested.  To most observers of the Doha round, the current stalemate is a frustrating déjà vu.  We were in this

The panel report on the seal case is out. http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news13_e/400_401r_e.htm  Obviously, there is a lot to digest there. Let me raise just one issue. The panel ruled that the EC Seal Regime was justifiable (necessary) under TBT Article

Recently, domestic solar cell (module) producers in both sides of the Atlantic have redoubled their efforts to stop the influx of cheaper rival products from China.  Predictably, they rely heavily on trade remedies such as antidumping measures. Of course, protectionism of this sort, in particular amid the recession, is hardly

This is why we need more "social marketing" for the cause of free trade. Here goes an insightful posting by Dan Ikenson (Cato Institute). http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/why-not-make-olympic-uniforms-china "If you are still not convinced of the folly of our policymakers' objections, consider this: