The $50 billion tariffs proposed by the Trump Administration put China into a “Catch-22” position. If China doesn’t retaliate and only follows the proper dispute settlement procedure to challenge them in the WTO, then it has to wait at least 2 years before the US measures are finally ruled

China's consultations request on the U.S. Section 301 tariffs is here. This is the key part: On 22 March 2018, the United States published related documents of the Section 301 investigations against China. On 3 April, the United State published a list of products of Chinese origin,

Here is the U.S. response to China's decision to deem the Section 232 tariffs a safeguard measure and to impose tariffs pursuant to provisions of the Safeguards Agreement: The United States has received China's requests for consultations under Article 12.3 of the Agreement on

I have been puzzling over what is happening with the safeguards issues related to the U.S. steel/aluminum "national security" tariffs (and as I was drafting this post, Brett Williams raised the same issue in a comment here). This is what I see so far. Safeguards Agreement

This is from the Financial Times: China has unveiled retaliatory duties on US food imports including pork, fruit, nuts and wine of up to 25 per cent as a response to the Trump administration’s new tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Beijing said the additional duties on 128 kinds

This is from the U.S. statements at the DSB meeting on March 27: The United States would be pleased to discuss at length the seriously trade distorting policies adopted by China that are the subject of the ongoing Section 301 investigation mentioned in China’s statement. It is these

Jennifer Hillman asked me to post the following: Does anyone know what the operative time frames are for the imposition of the China 301 tariffs? The President’s memorandum of March 22, in using the language “unreasonable or discriminatory and that burdens or restricts U.S. commerce,” has made it

Inside US Trade describes the steel quotas agreed to as part of the KORUS modifications as follows: Korea’s trade minister Kim Hyun-chong announced at a press briefing Monday that Korea would receive a quota of about 2.68 million tons of steel exports to the U.S. annually, which

Unlike NAFTA, the KORUS FTA renegotiation was not a complete overhaul, but more of a "refurbishing" of the agreement (as Ambassador Lighthizer put it the other day), one that was designed to avoid Congressional oversight. There are reports out now that the KORUS talks are complete, with what

The first challenge to the Section 232 steel/aluminum tariffs has been filed (thanks to Larry Friedman for the tip). This is an excerpt from the complaint: Accordingly, Plaintiffs Severstal Export GmbH ("SSE") and Severstal Export Miami Corporation ("SSE M ") (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), by and