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As we discuss standards of review, and Article XVII:2 of the Anti-DUmping Agreement, we often refer to the U.S. administrative law case, Chevron.  The following article seems to suggest that importing an unrefined Chevron into international trade law may exceed Chevron's domestic force. "Chevron&

One of the latest areas of contention in the Doha round is India's concern that its citizens cannot obtain enough U.S. visas to provide GATS authorized services in the U.S.  See Minister Kamal Nath's statement. India has raised the issue of visas in negotiations,

See Claude Barfield's article explaining the conflicting spins being put on the bipartisan trade compromise on FTAs and labor.

See the nice post by Peter Spiro at Opinio Juris.

The USTR has now published a fact sheet providing a bit more detail on the new deal between the administraiton and congress (hat tip to Julian Ku at Opinio Juris).  The idea is to make the 5 core principles subject to the same dispute settlement as commercial obligations, but (i)

News reports today are filled with stories of the deal between democrats and republicans regarding trade and labor/environment.  One particularly detailed story is here.  According to the report, ranking republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee McCreary says the deal won't be applicable to WTO

Brazil has issued a compulsory license for the medicine Efavirenz, an important anti-retroviral.  See the story here.  Brazil had negotiated with Merck for a couple of years, and failed to reach agreement on price.  Apparently, Brazil would have been satisfied with the same price charged in Thailand, but Merck

From Peggy McGuinness: International Law Weekend 2007 Towards a New Vision of International Law Call for Panel Proposals The post-9/11 era has been one of great contestation for international law.  Scholars and practitioners debate basic questions about the content and nature of public international law and how the

Well, I spent the afternoon at a conference at Harvard today, where Jagdish Bhagwati was to debate Alan Blinder about Offshoring/Outsourcing. Actually, their biggest disagreement was about the name of the phenomenon. Blinder uses offshoring to refer to country effects, as opposed to firm effects, whereas Bhagwati just uses

According to a recent announcement from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and WorldPublicOpinion.org, publics think globalization is helpful, but worry about the effects on labor and the environment: Majorities around the world believe economic globalization and international trade benefit national economies, companies, and consumers.  But many think trade