This blog post from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is -- how shall I describe it? -- quite something to behold: Roses are red Violets are blue I love the TPP And so should you Dearest Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, I can’t stop thinking about how great we’d be

In a foreign policy address today, likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush said (at 38:05) that "the focus [of US policy towards Latin America] ultimately needs to get back to a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas." Of course, that idea failed once before, but could a new

This is the abstract from a paper by trade lawyer Bernard O'Connor: Constructing Normal Value in WTO Anti-Dumping Law. Giving meaning to the phrase open, market-oriented policies in the preamble to the Marrakesh Declaration This paper looks at the construction of normal value in WTO anti-

In the context of the present fast track negotiations, a recent article in the New York Times points out the following aspect: The Obama administration fears that prohibitions on currency intervention could boomerang on Washington, allowing trading partners to challenge policies of the Federal Reserve Board. In the implicit view

I enjoyed this passage from the China - HP-SSST WTO panel report circulated on Friday: 6.24. Japan suggests that the Panel's analysis of the use of the indefinite article "a" preceding "like product" in the second sentence of Article 3.2 is "

Here's John Oliver on his show last night, giving his take on the tobacco litigation going on right now in international economic law: He didn't get into the interpretive issues related to overlap/conflict between the WTO and the FCTC, which I talk about in the

I recall many years ago conversations about how interim review in the WTO panel process was a waste of time, and we should get rid of it.  It had been proposed as a way to improve the quality of panel reports, but appellate review served that same purpose, so there

International trade law covers so much these days that it's hard to write a treatise or casebook on it in less than 1,000 pages.  Trust me on this, or give it a try yourself. Law prof Michael Trebilcock has just given it a try, with some success.

It turns out that when you have trade negotiations with only a select group of countries, other countries are left out.  Often, those who are left out are developing countries.  What's the impact of having "mega-regional" trade talks that exclude most developing countries?  Some people

This is from Canada's counter-memorial submission in the Eli Lilly NAFTA Chapter 11 case: 213. First, Article 1105(1) requires the NAFTA Parties to accord to investors and their investments the customary international law minimum standard of treatment of aliens. That standard, as has been overwhelmingly affirmed