This is from Inside U.S. Trade: U.S. trade officials are pressing South Korea to water down a new Korean car emissions standard or else give U.S. automakers wider leeway in complying with it, in what appears to be a second push by the Obama administration against Korean

This is a guest post from trade lawyer Adarsh Ramanujan: This blog earlier carried a post on the developments in the SCM benchmarking analysis arising from the Appellate Body decisions in US-Carbon Steel (India) (DS436), and US-CVD (China) (DS437). I consider these two reports as a watershed in

As reported last week, there is a new WTO complaint filed by the EU against U.S. aircraft subsidies: http://www.worldtradelaw.net/cr/ds487-1(cr).pdf  Here are the basics: I. Background In November 2013, the State of Washington, as part of its efforts to induce The Boeing

The Appellate Body (AB) report on the “United States –Countervailing Duty Measures on Certain Products from China” (WT/DS437/AB/R) is out.  Interestingly, the AB reversed some of panel’s findings.  Two reversals stand out: the de facto specificity and adverse facts available.  Here go relevant parts of the

The recent leak of a U.S. negotiating text related to TISA has caused some concern, in part due to its potential impact on EU data protection and privacy laws. The text can be found here, and is titled "Trade in Services Agreement TISA Proposal, New Provisions Applicable to

With more and, especially, deeper FTAs in place, I predict an uptake in dispute settlement under FTAs. Parties may generally prefer to file their disputes before the WTO. But in some cases they simply have no choice.  The commitment can only be found in an FTA (it is so-called

Looking for a young and dynamic colleague to join the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.  International economic law is one of four possible fields of specialization.  Guess which field I am pushing for? This is a really unique opening for someone focused on international trade, investment,

A while back, I wondered what would happen to NAFTA Chapter 19 if the TPP comes into effect.  I can't imagine they would create a TPP equivalent.  But will it get phased out through the TPP, or will that part of the NAFTA be carried over? More significantly,

I'm always hearing about how the TTIP is finally going to address those regulatory trade barriers we have been ignoring all these years.  In general, I'm a bit skeptical: Regulatory trade barriers have been on the agenda of trade negotiations since at least the late 1920s.