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Julian Ku and John Yoo have an op ed in the LA Times, arguing that the President cannot withdraw the U.S. from NAFTA or the WTO on his own.  Their writing, but probably not their thinking, conflates the issue of withdrawal from the treaty, which the President arguably can

Continuing from Simon’s interesting post on The GOP’s Response to VAT. . . .  In June 2016, the House Republican Tax Reform Task Force, led by Congressman and House Ways and Means Chair Kevin Brady, published a “Tax Reform Task Force Blueprint.”  The Blueprint proposes repealing the current corporate income tax,

An important proposal here.

At a time when pandering politicians scapegoat trade, it is unfortunate to see some of the world’s greatest economists join, incorrectly, in the chorus.  Dani Rodrik and Joseph Stiglitz have recent articles in Project Syndicate doing just this. For example, Stiglitz argues that “in the US, the bottom 90%

OK, no sensible person who understood Brexit ever really wanted it.  And there are enough potential legal and institutional obstacles—including most importantly the need for British Parliamentary action—to make it possible that actual Brexit never happens, as thoughtful commentators like Gideon Rachman and Andrew Moravcsik have said.  So

At Project Syndicate, Joseph Stiglitz and Adam Hersh have a critique of TPP.  I suppose it was optimistic of me to expect to see concerns about lost jobs or trade diversion--topics that could be illuminated by someone with Stiglitz' enormous skill.  But the critiques were more in the

Turns out that Hillary Clinton's emails included an interesting trade dispute with Israel under the US-Israel FTA.  Israel had blocked a shipment of Asian carp, as it apparently was permitted to do.  But the US exporters seem to have gotten their way through the lobbying channel.  I

In addition to the AB's findings on interpretation in this case, discussed by Adarsh Ramanujan, it seems to me that para 5.112 of the AB decision (quoted below) is also very important, stating that the amendment and waiver provisions of the WTO are lex specialis, prevailing over

I know that Simon and others have discussed the question of the applicability of GATT Article XX to provide an exception to prohibitions in the SCM Agreement, for example here.  Why is this issue not resolved by SCM 32.1, which states "No specific action against a subsidy of

Call for Papers: 2015 Barcelona Workshop on Global Governance: The Public and the Private in Global Governance IBEI (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals) and ESADEgeo (ESADE Business School’s Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics) are organizing the third edition of the Barcelona Workshop on Global Governance, an international workshop