Here's one more post based on the Trade Talks podcast with Stephen Vaughn: Chad P. Bown 16:43 Can I ask a bit more of the details on the enforcement piece? Is what we're thinking about if there is a deal that has some kind of

Here's more from the Trade Talks podcast with Stephen Vaughn: Chad P. Bown 33:26 But can I ask you, then, where is our constructive proposal to have this conversation? So we haven't gotten it from the Europeans or the Chinese or anything yet, but where

The recent Trade Talks podcast with former USTR General Counsel Stephen Vaughn was very informative. Soumaya and Chad have been kind enough to put together a transcript of the episode. There's a lot to talk about in there. I'm going to kick things off with one

This is from the Managing Editor of Trade, Law and Development, a student-run journal at the National Law University, Jodhpur, India: The Journal is now inviting unpublished manuscripts for publication its 12th Anniversary Special Issue (Vol. 12 No.1, Summer ’20 Issue) on the theme "Trade in Services: A

The Panel Report in India-Export-Related Measures (DS541) is a good example of WTO dispute settlement doing what it should, which is delivering the outcomes agreed by the Members, as reflected in the text of the WTO Agreement. When the Subsidies Agreement refers to eight years "from the entry into

Bernard Hoekman sends along this summary of a newly released paper: The Appellate Body crisis usually is presented as the U.S. against the world. Many WTO Members have made clear that they regard a dysfunctional AB as a serious problem for the trading system. One reason is that, depending

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