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Call for Papers: ASIL IEcLIG Biennial Conference

From the ASIL: THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW INTEREST GROUP IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ITS BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW February 14-15, 2020 TO BE HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW CALL FOR PAPERS The conference will comprise: • Academic paper presentations drawn
Simon Lester 26 May 2019 2 min read

III LAwTTIP Young Researchers Workshop - Call for papers

From the LAwTTIP Jean Monnet Network: In the framework of the LAwTTIP Jean Monnet Network, the Institut de l’Ouest: Droit et Europe (IODE, UMR CNRS 6262) of the University of Rennes 1 organises the 3rd Young Researchers Workshop, dedicated to the internal and external challenges linked to the new
Simon Lester 26 May 2019 1 min read

Democrats Should Embrace the New Economic Sovereignty (not the Old Globalism)

Should the Democrats oppose Trump's tariffs with a return to the ideology of free trade (albeit with handouts for globalism's losers)? That's the view of Edward Alden, writing this week in Foreign Policy.  Alden launches a defense of prior Democratic administrations' support for
Rob Howse 23 May 2019 4 min read

The USMCA Sunset Clause as a "Check on Bad Behavior"

This is from testimony by Beth Baltzan at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing yesterday on "Enforcement in the New NAFTA": The Ultimate Check on Bad Behavior: The Sunset Clause The history of U.S. trade policy exposes particular challenges with Europe and Japan, who have had
Simon Lester 23 May 2019 4 min read

The Missing Legal Strategy for the US-China Trade War

The Missing Legal Strategy for the US-China Trade War Steve Charnovitz 23 May 2019 The Trump Administration's strategy against China suffers many flaws, the most serious of which is the failure to use judicial procedures in the WTO.  As my recent study https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.
Charnovitz 23 May 2019 2 min read

Enforcement of the USMCA: Establish a Roster Now?

Bloomberg reports: The White House and congressional Democrats have opened talks to resolve outstanding details that have thus far held up the new North American trade deal, according to people briefed on discussions between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and trade chief Robert Lighthizer. Pelosi told Lighthizer that she will designate
Simon Lester 22 May 2019 1 min read

WTO Panels Without An Appellate Body: Can Rules-Based Dispute Settlement Survive Post December 2019 Under The Status Quo?

Has it struck you that, so far, WTO Members and most dispute settlement commentators keep their focus almost exclusively on the WTO Appellate Body (AB)? Be it criticizing or defending the AB, trying to save or reform it, or thinking of possible alternatives for “appellate review” (such as Article 25
Joost Pauwelyn 22 May 2019 4 min read

Questions about WTO Appellate Review Reform Proposals and Alternatives

Here are the questions for discussion for what looks to be a great conference at the World Trade Institute this coming Friday: Questions posed to the panel on “Scope of and timeframe for appellate review” • Should the objectivity of factual findings of a panel be subject to appellate review? • Should
Simon Lester 21 May 2019 7 min read

Does the US Accept Rebalancing as an Appropriate Response to National Security Measures in its Steel/Aluminum Settlements with Canada and Mexico?

The agreements reached between the US and Canada/Mexico, respectively, to bring an end to the Section 232 measures on steel and aluminum and the retaliatory measures adopted by Canada and Mexico contain the following provision: “If the importing party takes such action [i.e. if the US re-imposes the
Nicolas Lamp 21 May 2019 3 min read

Import Surge Protection and Retaliation in the Section 232 Agreements

Here's one aspect of the Section 232 steel/aluminum tariff removal agreements/understandings mentioned in a post last Friday (the excerpt below is from the agreement with Canada): After extensive discussions on trade in steel and aluminum covered by the action taken pursuant to Section 232 of the
Simon Lester 20 May 2019 1 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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