This is a guest post by Joao Otavio Benevides Demasi, a Ph.D student at Maastricht University: This brief and incomplete essay is written in the broad intersection of WTO Law, World Diplomacy, Economic Policy, Analysis of the International Relations, Political Sciences, and History of International Economic Relations. For the

It might be fair to say that the worst did not happen.  This weekend, both leaders of the United States and China agreed to put a “temporary truce” in the ever-escalating bilateral trade conflicts.  In a nut shell, the current level (10%) of the U.S. retaliatory tariffs against Chinese

This is a guest post by Prakhar Bhardwaj, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Trade and Investment Law, New Delhi. All views expressed here are personal. The joint communication from the European Union and 11 other nations to be tabled in the General Council meeting scheduled for 12-13 December 2018 (“EU

This is what Scott Lincicome has recently observed in his policy brief (The “Protectionist Moment” That Wasn’t: American Views on Trade and Globalization).  It is a mega-survey of five recent surveys (Pew; WSJ/NBC News; Gallup; Monmouth; the Chicago Council) on the American attitude toward foreign trade and globalization.

Recall that the original Article 23.9 of the new NAFTA said this: Article 23.9 Sex-Based Discrimination in the Workplace The Parties recognize the goal of eliminating sex-based discrimination in employment and occupation, and support the goal of promoting equality of women in the workplace. Accordingly, each Party shall

The new NAFTA -- AKA, the USMCA here in the U.S., but different acronyms in Canada and Mexico -- has now been signed. With apologies to the hard-working negotiators, that was the easy part. Now the Trump administration has to get Congress to sign off. Ambassador Lighthizer sounds confident:

This is a guest post from law professor David Trubek: With a meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi at the G-20 in Buenos Aires about to occur, many hope for a truce in the trade war and a deal that will benefit both countries. But that will not happen if

This is a guest post from Szilárd Gáspár Szilágyi, Postdoctoral Fellow, PluriCourts, University of Oslo On 29 March 2019, 11 pm, the UK will officially leave the European Union, unless by some miracle it decides to withdraw its notification to exit the Union. Everyone is anxiously awaiting the outcome of

This is more from Anthea Roberts, Henrique Choer Moraes, Victor Ferguson on geoeconomics at the Lawfare blog: There has been much consternation (particularly in the United States) about China’s use of geoeconomic strategies, meaning the “use of economic instruments to promote and defend national interests, and to produce beneficial

This is from the latest WTO monitoring report on G20 trade measures: Regarding trade remedy actions, it has been highlighted in discussions among G20 economies, as well as more broadly in the WTO, that some of these measures are taken to address what is perceived by some as a market