From the EU first written submission in Seal Products: 357. It is beyond question that the EU Seals Regime restricts trade to the extent that the General Ban provides for a prohibition, as a general rule, on the placing on the EU market of all seal products, whether domestic or

The TBT Agreement only applies to certain kinds of measures, including "technical regulations."  Is the Seal Products measure a technical regulation?  Here's the definition of technical regulation: Document which lays down product characteristics or their related processes and production methods, including the applicable administrative provisions, with

From the first EU written submission in the Seal Products dispute: 322. Canada argues that 90-95% of its seal  products, which derive from large-scale commercial hunts, cannot be placed on the EU market whereas seal products of certain EU Member States may potentially be placed on the market because they

From the first EU written submission in the Seal Products dispute: 257. Canada argues that the Indigenous Communities exception  de facto  violates Article 2.1 of the TBT Agreement since such exception effectively permits 100% of Greenlandic seal products to be placed on the EU market, but excludes virtually all

The submission can be found here: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/wtodispute/show.cfm?id=475&code=2#_eu-submissions Canada appears to be still hiding its submission from the public.  The submission has been leaked to various individuals, however, and I have seen a copy.  Reading the EU submission

Now that Russia is in. From Reuters: Assuming WTO relations are set up quickly, the United States and Russia could file complaints against each other in the coming months. Earlier in December, Russia banned imports of meat containing any trace of ractopamine, a feed additive widely used in the United

As I said yesterday, it's not easy to summarize the "benefit" issue in the Canada - Renewable Energy panel report.  But just quickly, the dissenter puts the two sides succinctly.  The majority view (as desribed by the dissenter): 9.1 ... In essence, the Panel majority has

Amy Porges points me to more details on the WTO hiring in dispute settlement: Vacancy Notice No.: EXT/T/12-07    Title: Dispute Settlement Lawyer    Grade: To be confirmed    Contract Type: Temporary appointment    Issued On: 14 November 2012    Original published date: 14 November 2012  (42 day(s) until closing date)    Republished

From today's WTO panel report in Canada - Renewable Energy/Feed-In Tariff: 7.7 Throughout these proceedings, however, the complainants have emphasized that in contesting the WTO-consistency of the challenged measures, they do not question the legitimacy of the objectives pursued by the Government of Ontario through the

From the proposed revision to the EU's tobacco products directive, mentioned in the last post: (15) The likelihood of diverging regulation is further increased by concerns over tobacco products, including smokeless tobacco products, having a characterising flavour other than tobacco, which may facilitate uptake of tobacco consumption or