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I guess this 365 billion dollar question has been lingering in everyone's mind since Trump took office a year ago. Now the USTR finally made it clear in its  2017 Report to Congress on China’s WTO Compliance, which it launched to great fanfare yesterday: "In November

This is from Jenny Leonard of Inside US Trade: The White House is considering the creation of a reciprocal investment regime with China following a Section 301 investigation into Chinese technology and intellectual property policies, but some in the administration fear it would lead to stock market losses and negatively

I enjoyed this recent JIEL article by Emily Lydgate, called "Is it Rational and Consistent? The Wto’s Surprising Role in Shaping Domestic Public Policy." Here is the abstract: What makes regulation rational? And why is rationality important to an international tribunal? In the World Trade Organization (WTO)

Here's a comment we wrote in our Dispute Settlement Commentary for the DS491 panel report right at the end of last year: U.S. ITC Tie Vote under WTO Law Normally, there are six commissioners who serve on the U.S. International Trade Commission at a given time.

Yesterday, Canada launched the first WTO dispute of the year to mark the start of the auspicious year of 2018. The respondent in the dispute - the US - was apparently not very amused and called the request for consultations "a broad and ill-advised attack on the U.S.

Ken Vandevelde is one of the preeminent scholars on investment treaties. He has a new short paper entitled "IIA provisions, properly interpreted, are fully consistent with a robust regulatory state" here.  In the paper, he makes a couple points that I want to address. First, he talks about

After a recent trip to Iceland -- great scenery and delicious food! -- I wanted to learn more about the country, so naturally I looked up Iceland's most recent WTO Trade Policy Review and skimmed through the Secretariat report.* I was intrigued by this sentence: 2.39. Iceland&

I'm puzzling over certain aspects of the consideration of "unforeseen developments" in the Photovoltaic Cells Section 201 case. Here's a brief rundown of the issue. On November 13, 2017, the ITC sent to the President its report in the case. I had been wondering

I am hearing some talk that the ongoing Section 301 investigation related to certain Chinese government practices will result in President Trump imposing tariffs against Chinese imports. This is from Axios: It's quite likely Trump will use 301 authority — in January, we're told — to put tariffs