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Just when the trade liberalization business was slowing down, Mattoo and Guasch propose some new fields of endeavor . . . . "Currency Undervaluation and Sovereign Wealth Funds: A New Role for the World Trade Organization" World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4668 AADITYA MATTOO, World Bank - Development Research Group

See Dani Rodrik's interesting, and a bit angry, post about Bob Zoellick's views regarding the relationship between food prices and agricultural trade liberalization.  The problem is that food prices are too high.  Zoellick's prescription:  end rich country agricultural subsidies, and open rich country markets.

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian have a new paper proposing WTO involvement in these issues (greater involvement in the case of exchange rates).  Here is the synopsis: Two aspects of global imbalances—undervalued exchange rates and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)—require a multilateral response. For reasons of inadequate leverage and

I thought it might be interesting if we try to develop an inventory of circumstances in which WTO law conflicts with other international law, in the narrow meaning of "conflict".  That is, where are there specific circumstances in which an  obligation of WTO law requires or prohibits an

Simon and I are delighted to welcome Andrew Lang, of LSE, to our hardy band of bloggers.

In paragraph 123 of its Hormones decision, the Appellate Body made the following statement: The precautionary principle is regarded by some as having crystallized into a general principle of customary international environmental law.  Whether it has been widely accepted as a principle of general or customary international law appears less

Inconsistency between valuation for trade and tax purposes, and inconsistency in transfer pricing rules, has apparently risen to the top of the global agenda: Tax Notes International, Forthcoming Boston University School of Law Working Paper No. 07-29 RICHARD THOMPSON AINSWORTH, Boston University - School of Law Email: vatprof@bu.edu

I just happened on a very nice compilation of the U.S. Trade Promotion Authority law and background materials.  It is at http://finance.senate.gov/TradePromotionAuthority.pdf

"WTO Law and Practice: The State of the Discipline February 15, 2008 Chicago, IL The American Society of International Law and the Loyola University Chicago School of Law present the International Law Review 2008 Symposium; a one-day conference and workshop that will focus on recent developments in World Trade