This is a guest post from Brazilian trade lawyer Luiz Eduardo Salles BILATERAL AGREEMENTS AS AN OPTION TO LIVING THROUGH THE WTO AB CRISIS The trade law community’s hottest topic these days has been the crisis stemming from the US’ persistent refusal to appoint new Appellate Body members. Indeed,

This is from the SIEL, JIEL & OUP: A prize has been established by the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL) and Oxford University Press (OUP) for the best essay submitted on any topic in any field of international economic law. The 2017-2018

This is from the provisionally adopted text of the amended EU AD/CVD regulation (I think I'm stating that correctly, but someone please correct me if I have it wrong!), relating to the use of analogue countries in constructing a normal value: Article 1 Regulation (EU) 2016/1036

This is from the updated USTR NAFTA negotiating objectives: Dispute settlement: "Provide mechanisms for ensuring that the Parties retain control of disputes and can address situations when a panel has clearly erred in its assessment of the facts or the obligations that apply." One way to address panel

This is from the Daily Beast: During his first six months in office, Donald Trump’s top trade official met with a host of companies, trade associations, and industry groups. He also carved out a little time for an unsuspected visitor: an employee of Ralph Nader’s former progressive nonprofit.

This is from Gregory Shaffer, Manfred Elsig and Mark Pollack: The Trump administration threatens to end the world’s trade court, the Appellate Body (AB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), by blocking the appointment of new AB judges. In doing so, it risks destroying the rules-based trading system

USTR's updated NAFTA negotiating objectives are here.  These are a few new additions that jumped out at me, with some brief comments: --------------------------------------- Government procurement: "Ensure reciprocity in market access opportunities for U.S. goods, services, and suppliers in Canada and Mexico." I'm not sure

One of the important recurring issues among the US problems with the case law of the Appellate Body is the standard of review in anti-dumping disputes. The relevant text was changed at a very late stage of the Uruguay Round negotiations, after most of the texts were closed. Belatedly

The posts by Simon and Inu on the US notifications proposal help to bring to light the important but often ignored issue of notification in WTO agreements. As I've just finished an article on the implementation of the WTO transparency obligation by China, I'd like to