From the White House: Joint Statement of the United States and Japan 1.  On the occasion of our Summit Meeting in New York on September 26, 2018, we, President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, affirmed the importance of a strong, stable, and mutually beneficial trade and economic

This is from the dispute settlement chapter of the Modernisation of the Trade part of the EU-Mexico Global Agreement: Article X.5 Composition of a Panel 1. A panel shall be composed of three panellists.     2. Within [X] days from the date of receipt of the written request for the

In a side letter to the U.S.-Mexico agreement that is part of the NAFTA renegotiation, it appears that the U.S. has agreed that if it imposes tariffs on auto imports pursuant to Section 232, a certain amount of Mexican auto imports will be exempt. (You could also

This is a guest post from Marcin Menkes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Law at Warsaw School of Economics: “So this is how liberty dies ... with thunderous applause.” ―Padmé Amidala A long time ago, in a hemisphere far, far away … War! The multilateral order and the democratic Rule

Mexican trade negotiator Kenneth Smith Ramos tweeted this: #Mexico stated from the beginning of the negotiation that the ideal scenario is for #NAFTA to remain trilateral. We hope the US and Canada will conclude their bilateral #negotiation shortly. If that is not possible we are ready to advance bilaterally with

This is from Inside US Trade: Public Citizen Global Trade Watch Director Lori Wallach told reporters during that call that while she thinks “public citizens” would prefer no ISDS language in the North American Free Trade Agreement at all, the U.S.-Mexico deal “can be widely supported, especially after

This is from the Law Faculty of Maastricht University: The Law Faculty of Maastricht University will be hosting a colloquium on 17 December 2018, focusing on a key challenge facing the international trading system, namely the rapidly eroding trust in trade liberalisation and economic integration, as embodied in the rules

This is a guest post from Petros Mavroidis: This time it is different. It is difficult to say how serious it is, but it is different. President Trump’s trade policy is a decisive turn towards unilateralism followed by bilateral deals.  This combination is a blow to the multilateral edifice

As we have talked about on this blog, the Safeguards Agreement provides for compensation/suspension where safeguards measures are used. Here is Article 8.1: A Member proposing to apply a safeguard measure or seeking an extension of a safeguard measure shall endeavour to maintain a substantially equivalent level of

This is from Janyce McGregor of the CBC: The preliminary trade agreement the U.S. recently reached with Mexico may offer a glimpse of what could happen with NAFTA's Chapter 11. A U.S. official said the two countries wanted ISDS to be "limited" to cases