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ANZSIL International Economic Law Interest Group: Call for Papers

This is from the ANZSIL International Economic Law Interest Group (IELIG): 2024 Workshop The 2024 IELIG Workshop will be held via Zoom on Friday 29 November 2024. Its aim is to provide an informal setting for discussion of topical issues and works in progress. We are honoured to have Prof
Simon Lester 20 Sep 2024 1 min read

Designing an Economic Security Safeguards Mechanism to Reform the WTO Security Exception

During the WTO Public Forum, the TradeExperettes published a report entitled, Ten Quick Wins for: Re-globalization and Resilience in Trade. The report captures a collection of terrific trade analysts (who happen to be women) short, policy briefs that capture ideas and potential solutions for urgent issues for the multilateral
Mona Paulsen 17 Sep 2024 3 min read

Guest Post: A Tribute to Frieder Roessler from Petros Mavroidis

This is a guest post by Petros Mavroidis of Columbia Law School. The piece will be published in a forthcoming issue of the World Trade Review. An Uncommon Mind: Frieder Roessler’s Legacy Petros C. Mavroidis* *Columbia Law School 1. Doubts, Persistent Doubts “U-huh”. This is what I recall
Simon Lester 16 Sep 2024 9 min read

Trump the China Trade Deficit Hawk and China Security Dove?

Trade policy came up at last week's presidential debate, with a somewhat traditional discussion of tariffs at the start, and then a shift at the end to security-related issues. Kamala Harris started it off by referring to Trump's proposed universal baseline tariffs as a sales
Simon Lester 15 Sep 2024 4 min read

Tariff History Emerges as a Key Issue in the U.S. Presidential Contest (Just Kidding!)

As the culture wars have dominated the political debate in recent years, it feels as though the quality of the economic policy discussion has suffered. Some of the economic topics that keep coming up are of little interest to most voters, and are being talked about in a way that
Simon Lester 09 Sep 2024 7 min read

Why the US Should Respond Honestly to China's WTO Complaint

Because China is acting responsibly to uphold the multilateral trading system and to challenge US illegality in a peaceful way, the US should cooperate by facilitating the rapid response mechanism envisioned in the DSU for the adjudication of trade complaints.  Let the panel do its job to call out t
Charnovitz 03 Sep 2024 4 min read

Guest Post: A Tribute to Frieder Roessler from Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

This is a guest post by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, emeritus Professor at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy), and legal consultant at the World Trade Organization (Geneva); former professor of European law at Geneva University, and of international economic law at Geneva’s Graduate Institute of International Studies Frieder Rössler
Simon Lester 03 Sep 2024 10 min read

Call for Papers: Geoeconomics, Trade and Investment: What role for Latin American countries?

This is from the Latin American Network of International Economic Law: Third Edition of the Global Jurist Award Call for Papers (CfP) - Deadline extension Geoeconomics, Trade and Investment: What role for Latin American countries? The Law Faculties of Universidad Externado (Colombia) and the Federal University of São Paulo, along with
Simon Lester 01 Sep 2024 1 min read

Call for Submissions: Trade, Law and Development

The journal Trade, Law and Development has issued a call for submissions for its Winter 2024 issue (Vol. 16, no. 1). The theme is: "Navigating the Murky Waters of Economic Treaties in International Trade." The deadline is October 1, 2024. [update: the deadline has been extended until November
Simon Lester 01 Sep 2024 1 min read

Call for Papers: ASIL International Economic Law Biennial Conference

This is from ASIL’s International Economic Law Interest Group: The next ASIL International Economic Law Biennial Conference will be held on May 16-17, 2025, at Michigan Law, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Applications are now open for paper and panel proposals, and the deadline by which to submit a
Inu Manak 30 Aug 2024 1 min read

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The Section 301 Forced Labor Import Ban Report

On June 2, 2026, USTR released its report on its Section 301 investigation into acts, policies, and practices of various economies related to the failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor.
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What To Expect from the USMCA Review?

The USMCA review is almost upon us. How exactly things will proceed is a bit unclear, as we've never done this sort of thing before, but July 1 is the six year anniversary of the USMCA's entry into force.
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China in the World Trading System: A Response to Chad, and Some Comments on Froman-Greer

I'm going to use this post to (1) respond to Chad and (2) comment on an exchange between current U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer and former U.S. Trade Rep. Mike Froman at a recent CFR event.
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My Response To Simon on China in the World Trading System

Here are two quick reactions to the super important question of what explains why countries did not use WTO dispute settlement to push China to change.
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My Questions for Chad on China in the World Trading System

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