This is from the Toronto Star: Canada has made a bold offer to accept a controversial U.S. demand at the NAFTA talks about how to resolve commercial trade disputes, the Star has learned. It involves the current binding trade dispute settlement process used to resolve lawsuits by investor companies

This is from the SIEL, JIEL & OUP: The deadline for entering the 2017-2018 SIEL/JIEL/OUP Essay Prize competition is fast approaching, and authors meeting the stated conditions are warmly encouraged to send their submission by 16 FEBRUARY 2018. For further details: http://www.sielnet.org/essayprize

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