As noted recently here on this blog, border tax adjustments are a hot topic in tax and trade policy. This issue is not a new one; it has been around for a long time. In his masterpiece "World Trade and the Law of GATT," published in 1969, the

The Athens Public International Law Center (AthensPIL) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty of Law is hosting, in the context of the Investment Law Initiative, a Colloquium on ‘International Investment Law & the Law of Armed Conflict’, which will take place on October 5 & 6, 2017,

The award in the Windstream v. Canada NAFTA Chapter 11 investment arbitration was recently published. Investment Arbitration Reporter has a full summary here. I wanted to highlight two aspects of the fair and equitable treatment reasoning. First, the tribunal seemed to apply a strict "no dictionaries" principle: 357.

The 15 year period after China's WTO accession during which litigation about the treatment of China as a "non-market economy" was put on hold has now expired, and the litigation can commence. This is from Inside US Trade: China this week wasted no time challenging the

Continuing from Simon’s interesting post on The GOP’s Response to VAT. . . .  In June 2016, the House Republican Tax Reform Task Force, led by Congressman and House Ways and Means Chair Kevin Brady, published a “Tax Reform Task Force Blueprint.”  The Blueprint proposes repealing the current corporate income tax,

I've had a few questions from friends and reporters asking what I thought of the GOP tax plan set out here.  This is a key excerpt from the plan: Today, all of our major trading partners raise a significant portion of their tax revenues through value-added taxes (VATs)

I wanted to welcome Inu Manak as a contributor to this blog. Inu was our research assistant at Cato's trade policy center, and she has been my co-author on several journal articles and op-eds. She is now a PhD student in poli sci at Georgetown (studying under Marc

Like most people, I didn't expect the UK voters to support Brexit. I figured this vote would be like all the other secession votes that come along, with a rejection at the end.  But with the vote going the way it did, whatever you think of the idea

This is from the Financial Times: Germany’s highest court has ruled that the country’s utilities should be compensated for the government’s decision in the wake of the Fukushima disaster to shut down all Germany’s nuclear reactors. The decision by the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe is a

The WTO panel in the plain packaging case tells us that the report will be circulated to the parties "not before" May 2017.  So what does that mean for those of us who are not parties, but rather mere members of the public?  For some indication, but not