Thank you for your response to my post. Let's start with the facts.  The Chair himself has said that there was a "deviation" from the procedure agreed.  You, however, begin rhetorically, by referring to "conspiracies."  I never used that word.  Instead I offered a

Tomorrow (April 22) the International Chamber of Commerce will hold its World Trade Agenda Summit in,of all places, Doha, Qatar. A key document for the Summit is a report produced under the auspices of the Peterson Institute, a kind of updated catechism of neo-liberalism, "Payoff From the World

Thank you for your comment in response to my post. Here is my reply. First of all, according to this news article  http://bit.ly/ZEQiAs the Chair Mr. Bashir has admitted that some Members gave five preferences.  Secondly, the EU has, to my knowledge issued no denial that it

Here also I have no really strong theory (and no leads this time).  Though I wonder how close Blanco and Jonathan Fried became when they were negotiating NAFTA.  Each was the chief negotiator for their own country-strong loyalties can be cemented that way, especially when the talks are successful.  I

One of the issues I didn't address in my previous posts on the irregularities alleged by Kenya in the WTO DG selection process, is why the EU would want to subvert the process to keep African candidates out of the race.  The reason is that I didn'

An examination of the relevant WTO document http://bit.ly/16SQhPy shows that Kenya has a pretty clear-cut case that procedures were violated when the EU was allowed to express five preferences in the first round of DG selection, such that it could effectively ensure the elimination of African candidates

This is from the second EU written submission in the Seal Products case: The legal standard under Articles I:1 and III:4 of the GATT 1994 and Article 2.1 of the TBT Agreement with respect to their non-discrimination obligations is fundamentally the same In support of this view,

According to this news article http://bit.ly/14zrBNB, Kenya has sent a strongly worded letter to the Chair of the WTO General Council alleging specific irregularities in the round one selection process that resulted in both African candidates, including the impressive Kenyan Amina Mohamed, being eliminated from the race.

I always thought of a "local content requirement" as a requirement that a producer ensure that a certain percentage of inputs in the production process come from local sources. But USTR seems to be using the term differently: APEC Breaking Ground on Local Content Requirements Ahead of High-Level

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