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12th GNLU International Moot Court Competition, 2020

This is from the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar (GNLU): The 12th edition of GIMC is scheduled to be held from February 12-16, 2020 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. The GNLU International Moot Court Competition (GIMC) has, over the past decade, served as a unique platform for law students from around
Inu Manak 09 Nov 2019 2 min read

Call for Entries: RMLNLU-CTIL Conference on International Trade Law

This is from the Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow: The Journal Committee at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National University, Lucknow, in collaboration with Centre for Trade and Investment Law, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade is organising RMLNLU- CTIL Conference on International Trade Law (7th RMLNLU International Legal
Inu Manak 09 Nov 2019 1 min read

Guest Post: Dani Rodrik and the Hawks: A field guide to the China-US Trade War

This is a guest post from law professor David Trubek: The media are full of announcements of a “truce” in the China-US trade war. The deal that is being finalized may halt further escalation for a time, but it does nothing to resolve the deeper issues that lie behind the
Simon Lester 07 Nov 2019 3 min read

Is One Panel Meeting Enough?

This is from last week's India - Export Related Measures panel report: 1.3.2 Single substantive meeting of the Panel with the parties 1.9. On 3 August 2018, the Chairperson of the Panel, on behalf of the Panel, held a meeting with the parties to obtain
Simon Lester 05 Nov 2019 3 min read

Non-Violation Claims Against National Security Measures

This is from the U.S. third party oral statement in the United Arab Emirates – Measures Relating to Trade in Goods and Services, and Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (DS526) dispute: III. Negotiating History Of GATT 1994 Article XXI(b) 12. The negotiating history of these essential security
Simon Lester 31 Oct 2019 12 min read

Guest Post: US Narrative on Trade Unilateralism: Insights from DS543

This is a guest post from Akhil Raina* & Mattijs Kempynck** Introduction Readers of this blog are all too aware of the many ways in which the United States (US) is rocking the multilateral trade boat: the Appellate Body (AB) is in crisis;  there’s an ongoing “trade war” with
Simon Lester 29 Oct 2019 12 min read

What Kinds of Measures Should Trade Agreements Target?

A group of scholars (including Rob Howse of this blog) has a new proposal for how to manage U.S.-China trade relations better. I may comment on the broader proposal at some point (and Rob may blog about it himself), but in the meantime, as I sometimes like to
Simon Lester 28 Oct 2019 3 min read

UNCITRAL and ISDS Reform: Visualising a Flexible Framework

By Anthea Roberts and Taylor St John In UNCITRAL, states have broken through the impasse of the incrementalist and systemic reformer camps. They have all agreed that they want to pursue systemic reform, but they have different ideas about what that entails and what to prioritise. In broad terms, agreement
Anthea Roberts 24 Oct 2019 13 min read

Two Faces of (De-) Globalization

Two very different observations on (de-) globalization have caught our eyes lately. First of all, according to the most recent statistics provided by the Global Trade Alert (composed by Prof. Simon Evenett at St. Gallen), pro-trade and investment measures across borders have shown the biggest decline ever for the past
Sungjoon Cho 23 Oct 2019 1 min read

UNCITRAL and ISDS Reform: In Sickness and In Health

By Anthea Roberts and Taylor St. John UNCITRAL Working Group III met in Vienna last week to continue its discussions about how to reform investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). In April 2019, the Working Group agreed that the ISDS system suffered from significant problems and required reform. In colloquial terms, the
Anthea Roberts 23 Oct 2019 8 min read

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Is There No Going Back on Trade? What Is the Path Forward? A Response to Lighthizer

Former U.S. Trade Rep. Bob Lighthizer has a new essay in Foreign Affairs, and I have some thoughts. I'm going to start with his brief big picture points on the direction of U.S. trade policy, and then go through a couple of the specific concepts he emphasizes.
27 Apr 2026 6 min read

The Section 301 Excess Capacity Investigation Needs Less Madness, More Method

Shortly after the Supreme Court ruled President Trump’s emergency tariffs under IEEPA  unconstitutional, the administration scrambled to rebuild its tariff wall. While the announcement of Section 122 tariffs immediately following the ruling will provide a temporary patch, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office quickly began to utilize another
24 Apr 2026 6 min read

War Tariffs

This is a co-authored post by Kathleen Claussen and Tim Meyer. Last week, President Trump announced that the United States would be imposing new tariffs of 50 percent of the value of any product coming from any country that sells weapons or provides military aid to Iran. Some commentators questioned
14 Apr 2026 5 min read

USMCA Review and Extension Predictions

When the idea of an expiration clause was suggested during the NAFTA renegotiation, I was against it from the start, and Inu and I wrote a pretty critical piece about it at the time. A review is great, we said, let's definitely have reviews, and there are plenty of ways to do that.
08 Apr 2026 5 min read

The Section 301 Surge Continues: Investigating the Adoption/Enforcement/Administration of Forced Labor Import Bans

This Section 301 investigation intends to pressure all sixty named trade partners (even, inexplicably, including Canada and Mexico) to adopt similar enforcement procedures. This announcement is highly problematic for the four reasons I address below.
16 Mar 2026 4 min read

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