This is from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross: Speaking ahead of the arrival in Washington of global finance officials for this week’s IMF and World Bank spring meetings, commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said those accusing the Trump administration of protectionism were firing at the wrong target. The billionaire investor, who

From the University of Szeged: Prof. Csongor István Nagy, professor of law and head of the HAS-Szeged Federal Markets “Momentum” Research Group is hosting a conference at the University of Szeged, Hungary on May 4, 2017, entitled: "Free trade, public interest and reality: new generation free trade agreements and

There was this: President Trump on Wednesday said he would not label China a currency manipulator, contradicting one of the biggest economic promises he made on the campaign trail. And there was also this: COMMERCE TAKES ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ STEP IN TRADE CASE: The Trump administration flexed its enforcement muscles by taking

Carveouts for tobacco control measures are spreading. The carveout was first used in the TPP, then was brought over to the Australia-Singapore FTA update. Now there is one in the Canadian Free Trade Agreement: Article 806: Tobacco Control Measures This Agreement does not apply to any measure adopted or maintained

Over the years, I've tried on this blog to get people interested in the Canadian Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT), with little apparent success.  In part, that may have been because there just weren't enough cases (roughly 3 per year -- the list is here).  A

In a recent interview with the FT, President Trump had this to say about the existing U.S. trade relationship with China: How do you bring China’s trade surplus down quickly? By telling China that we cannot continue to trade if we are going to have an unfair deal

From the Faculty of Law at the University of Szeged, Hungary: Prof. Csongor István Nagy, professor of law and head of the HAS-Szeged Federal Markets “Momentum” Research Group and Dr. Zoltán Víg, associate professor of law and senior research fellow at the HAS- Szeged Federal Markets “Momentum” Research Group will

On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order for an "Omnibus Report on Significant Trade Deficits."  Here's how it starts: OMNIBUS REPORT ON SIGNIFICANT TRADE DEFICITS By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America,

Following-up on my earlier post about NAFTA, now there's this from White House spokesman Sean Spicer (from Inside US Trade): Asked at the White House about a Wall Street Journal report on the draft notice, which was published Wednesday night by Inside U.S. Trade, Spicer noted that

WTO scholar Chad Bown, with the Peterson Institute, has been out in front in raising the specter that some of the policies on the Trump Administration/Republican agenda, in particular the current corporate tax reform plan, could lead to immense trade retaliation under WTO rules.  I'm somewhat less