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What To Do With "Fair and Equitable Treatment" Provisions?

Politico has this report today: U.S. ISDS PROPOSAL WOULD CUT TWO KEY PROTECTIONS: Expect USTR to put at least one of those “poison pills” forward at talks this week. The final U.S. proposal on investor-state dispute settlement comes not only with an “opt-in” provisions that effectively

It's a Big Week for NAFTA

Round 4 of the NAFTA renegotiation starts on Wednesday. After this round, we may have a better sense of the chances of a successful renegotiation. We have heard hints and rumors of a number of U.S. proposals, but this round may give us something more concrete. Here are some

The EU's New Anti-Dumping Calculation Methodology

This is from the European Commission: Brussels, 4 October 2017 The European Parliament and the Council have agreed to change the EU's anti-dumping and anti-subsidy legislation following a proposal from the European Commission from November 2016. The main change to the anti-dumping legislation is the

NAFTA Conferences

It sounds like the NAFTA renegotiation is about to get exciting, with proposals on controversial issues such as ISDS, rules of origin, and dispute settlement coming soon. To hear more about all this, you might want to attend a (free!) conference or two in Washington, DC. Georgetown University has one

The GNLU International Moot Court Competition (GIMC)

This is from the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar (GNLU): The GNLU International Moot Court Competition is GNLU’s flagship event, organized every year in February, by the University. GIMC is one of the very few moots in the world that simulates the WTO dispute settlement mechanism, and India’s

Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference

This is from the Graduate Institute in Geneva: On Thursday 5 October 2017 - Friday 6 October 2017, the Graduate Institute’s Centre for Finance and Development will be hosting a two day Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference (DebtCon). Sovereign debt is at the centre of the policy debate

A NAFTA proposal: fix the FET investment protection commitment*

With the NAFTA negotiations, investment lawyers, lawmakers, business groups, and civil society are waiting to see how Canada, Mexico, and the US will address the heated topic of investor-State arbitration, where an investor can claim compensation directly against a host state based on a treaty breach before an ad

Counting Down the Appellate Body Members' Terms

This is from Manfred Elsig, Mark Pollack and Gregory Shaffer: The future of the world trading system is at stake thanks to an impasse in Geneva over the appointment of members of the Appellate Body (AB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Trump administration has been waging a behind-

Is International Economic Law International?

Following up on my earlier posts, I want to talk briefly about U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer's response to a question about WTO dispute settlement: ... We’ve had other provisions where the WTO has taken – really, I think, took the position that they were going to strike

USTR's NAFTA Chapter 20 Proposals

Recall that at a recent CSIS event, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said this: ... Back when Senator Brock and I were there and there was a system, it was before 1995, before the WTO, under the GATT, and there was a system where you would bring panels and then