My apologies if the title of this post ever disappoints sci-fi fans, but certain cashmere yarns from all over the world have now had an opportunity to trek to South Korea, and eventually to the United States. A number of regional trading agreements (RTAs) contain the “yarn-forwarding” rule.

Canada's latest move has been to attack the singer Morrissey, claiming that he compared the seal hunt to Auschwitz.  However, what Mr. Morrissey actually said was different.  He merely used the example of concentration camps to illustrate the moral argument that if something is intrinsically evil the fact

An article appearing in Sun New service by Jessica Hume gives a very misleading impression of the Seals case.  http://bit.ly/1rmpx15  The article appears in the guise of an interview with Geneva-based attorney and former Canadian official Brendan McGivern.  Of course, I don't know what

Here's an interesting Dormant Commerce Clause case that might come before the U.S. Supreme Court, as described by a Cato colleague of mine: One of the several failures of the Articles of Confederation was the incapacity of the central government to deal with trade disputes among the

This is from the U.S. answers to questions from the arbitrator in the Clove Cigarettes Article 22.6 proceeding: 88. Company documents from Kretek International (“Kretek”), which occupied 97 percent of the market for clove cigarette imports in the United States, substantiate that the current market for clove cigars

The Appellate Body has issued some "guidelines" for employees (AB judges, secretariat staff, interns) to follow after they have left: POST-EMPLOYMENT GUIDELINES IN RESPECT OF FORMER APPELLATE BODY MEMBERS, FORMER APPELLATE BODY SECRETARIAT STAFF, AND FORMER INTERNS AT THE APPELLATE BODY SECRETARIAT The Appellate Body expects the

The answer may depend on whom you ask.  Indeed, against the background of the recent TPP negotiation this particular origin rule offers a unique lens through which one can investigate a complex relationship of free trade, political economy and trade regionalism. According to Lien Hoang of the Bloomberg BNA, amid

Following up on Simon’s last post, I want to raise a few questions on the US appeal. In "U.S. Files 'Preemptive' Appeal Against WTO Ruling on Chinese Rare Earths", BNA WTO Reporter, April 10, 2014, Daniel Pruzin reports: The U.S. has filed a

As everyone has no doubt heard by now, the U.S., Japan and the EU recently won a big victory over China in the Rare Earths case at the WTO. The WTO panel ruled that various Chinese export duties and quotas violated WTO obligations and were not justified by any

One of Canada's key contentions in the WTO Seals dispute is that the indigenous exception in the EU ban is lacking in evenhandedness, favoring Greenland seal products over Canadian products.  The exception is de jure neutral and available to indigenous products regardless of origin.  But Canada has maintained