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

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-

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

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

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

This is from CTV: The [Canadian] federal government is launching consultations on a potential free trade agreement with China. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced the beginning of exploratory discussions in September. Now the government says it is seeking input from individuals, businesses, civil society organizations,

Here is former UN Ambassador John Bolton writing about the DSU in the WSJ: Agreed to during the Uruguay Round of world trade talks in 1994, the DSU has had some successes. But it is often criticized for failing to deter violations of the WTO’s substantive trade provisions and

Many of us heaved a sigh of relief when Philip Morris lost its challenge to Uruguay's tobacco plain packaging regulations. In the euphoria of the moment, it was easy to ignore the unpleasant fact of a dissent.  Yet much of the value to Philip Morris in attacking, both