The United States and China engaged in a high-level trade negotiation in Beijing on May 3 and 4. The two sides exchanged views but did not reach any agreement on specific issues. The FT has now published the Draft Framework prepared by the US in advance of the negotiation.

Recall that CETA Article 8.10 identifies the following examples of "treatment" that is not "fair and equitable": 1. Each Party shall accord in its territory to covered investments of the other Party and to investors with respect to their covered investments fair and equitable treatment

Negotiating history often raises as many questions as it answers, but that's part of what makes it interesting. Recently, I stopped by the  University of Pennsylvania library to look at the Clair Wilcox collection of International Trade Organization documents, and I found a document dated September 15, 1947,

This is from the SIEL 2018 conference organizers: The Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) 2018 Global Conference will take place in Washington D.C. on July 12-14, 2018, with the theme International Economic Law in Unsettling Times. The Conference will be the largest conference SIEL has ever organized,

This is from the Centre for Trade and Investment Law in New Delhi, India: Request for Proposals: Training session and capacity building in the field of international trade and economic diplomacy. The Centre for Trade and Investment Law, established by the Ministry of Commerce, Govt. of India, is inviting proposals

The Department of Private International Law of the University of Szeged and the HAS-Szeged Federal Markets "Momentum" Research Group cordially invites you to: "National sovereignty and regional economic integration: non-trade values and international trade", on  May 3, 2018. The event will take place at:

There are reports that an "agreement in principle" on a new NAFTA is almost ready. Will they try to resolve all of the major points as part of this, or will they gloss over some of them? I'm not sure. Anyway, here are 13 issues I&

This is from the newly released text of the EU - Japan Economic Partnership Agreement: ARTICLE 21.25 Administration of the dispute settlement procedure 1. Each Party shall: (a) designate an office which shall be responsible for the administration of the dispute settlement procedure under this Chapter; (b) be responsible for

Last week, I posted about the EU splitting up its trade and investment agreements, with the EU - Singapore agreements separated out into a trade part and an investment protection apart. But it seems that the EU is taking a different approach in its updated, and almost completed, agreement with Mexico.

Today, the Canadian Supreme Court decided the Comeau case, involving provincial barriers on trade in beer. This decision could have created a Canadian "single market" (to borrow a phrase), but the justices decided on a narrower approach. For anyone who follows WTO jurisprudence or debates about policy space/