This is from the FT: Finance ministers from the world’s biggest economies have dropped pledges to renounce protectionism in a meeting marked by tension over trade between the US and others including China. G20 finance ministers meeting in the German resort town of Baden-Baden noted the importance of trade

This is also from Todd Tucker's report: ... The U.S. trade deficits with Mexico and China went up after trade deals were finalized with both countries. Summarizing the research that uses such deficit-based measures (and attempting to control for trade displacement he believes would have happened anyway as

This is from the Todd Tucker progressive trade policy vision that I mentioned in the last post: ... The benefits of international cooperation on fighting tax evasion, monopoly power, unstable financial markets, climate change, and macroeconomic imbalances from misaligned currencies far outstrip even the most optimistic projections for agreements like the

Progressives might disagree among themselves on what they want out of trade policy, but the vision of one particular progressive, long-time friend of this blog Todd Tucker, is here. First, let me say that I love the title of his report: "The Sustainable Equitable Trade Doctrine: Building Progressive International

The UK Parliament International Trade Committee has issued a report on "UK Trade Options Beyond 2019."  There are lots of interesting items in there. Here is the section on dispute rules in a UK-EU FTA: Dispute resolution 95.A key consideration regarding the terms of a UK-EU FTA

The Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS), Academia Sinica intends to organize an international conference on 15-16 (Wed-Thu) November, 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan. The potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following issues: * The shift from embedded liberalism to neoliberalism and its critique * The future of mega-FTAs

An ICSID Annulment Committee's decision to reduce the damages to be paid to Exxon (Mobil) by $1.4 billion seems like a cause for celebration-a victory of economic sovereignty over Big Oil.  But as gifts to economic justice go, this one is a Trojan horse indeed. Now there

On Friday, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that China will be joining the meeting of the TPP countries next week. Since then, the Chinese internet has been filled with speculations that China will replace the US as the leader of the TPP. I do not think this is

Spring break is upon us at NYU and I'm making a big push to finish an essay on the design of a multilateral investment court along the lines of the initiative that Canada and the EU are now undertaking.  One of the big transitional issues is this:  since