Here it is: Regarding Withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Agreement MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE SUBJECT:                    Withdrawal of the United States from the                                     Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations                                     and Agreement It is the policy of my Administration to represent the American people

I haven't seen the presidential memo yet, but Inside US Trade reports: President Trump on Jan. 23 signed a presidential memo formally withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, assuring the Obama administration's flagship trade agreement will not come into force as negotiated and

Prior to his inauguration, President Trump threatened companies considering establishing plants outside the U.S. with a 35% tariff on their exports to the U.S.  Carrier, Toyota, General Motors, Ford, and BMW have been targets of the threats.  Most recently, in an interview with Bild, a German newspaper, he

A few people I know who are big supporters of North American integration worried a bit about what the TPP might do to NAFTA.  To some extent, it seemed as though NAFTA would get folded into the TPP.  If that happened, would everybody just forget about NAFTA?  The momentum for

Here's the latest WTO complaint, brought by the U.S. against various British Columbian measures governing the sale of wine in grocery stores: The BC wine measures provide advantages to BC wine through the granting of exclusive access to a retail channel of selling wine on grocery store

Investment Arbitration Reporter has a piece on a recent award involving a counterclaim by a state against an investor. Jarrod Hepburn explains: As discussed in a companion article, a tribunal at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has found one discrete breach of the Spain-Argentina bilateral

This is from SIEL/JIEL/OUP: The deadline for entering the 2016-2017 SIEL/JIEL/OUP Essay Prize competition has been extended to 31 JANUARY 2017. Authors meeting the stated conditions are warmly encouraged to send their submission  before /on that date.  For further details: http://www.sielnet.org/essayprize

Donald Trump has suggested he would impose tariffs on car imports from specific companies who produce in Mexico and export to the United States. Ford, GM, and Toyota have all been mentioned. Here is his Toyota tweet: Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build

According to this Reuters article, some foreign investors in Mexico are having financial difficulties as a result of Ford's decision -- partly in response to statements by Donald Trump -- not to build a planned factory there: Ford Motor Co's (F.N) abrupt move to scrap a planned

From the Leuven Global Governance Centre and Oxford University Press: Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL) brings together decisions on public international law from international law courts, domestic courts, and ad hoc tribunals, and is the most up-to-date source of international case law available. The Reports on International