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Amicus Submission in Seal Products

We have posted an amicus submission in the Seal Products case, authored by Rob Howse, Joanna Langille, and Katie Sykes: http://www.worldtradelaw.net/amicus/howsesealsamicus.pdf Rob also tells me that he will be blogging about the panel hearings, which are coming up next week.  I'm looking
Simon Lester 12 Feb 2013 1 min read

The U.S. Third Party Submission in EC - Seal Products ...

... is here: /content/files/sites/default/files/US-3dPtySub-fin__0.pdf They don't really take a stance on many of the issues related to who should win or lose the case.  The focus is on the intricacies of Article XX(a).
Simon Lester 11 Feb 2013 1 min read

The New WTO Analytical Index

It's free, online and up-to-date.  See it here: http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/analytic_index_e/analytic_index_e.htm
Simon Lester 11 Feb 2013 1 min read

Protectionism: Not Dead Yet

Paul Krugman has a post in which he proclaims "The Death of Protectionism."  He refers to this chart from the ITC: And he says: In doing course prep for trade policy, I looked, as I always do, at the latest edition of the USITC publication on the economic
Simon Lester 10 Feb 2013 1 min read

Trade Lawyer Positions in Geneva

With King & Spalding: International Trade # of Positions: 2 | Years of Experience: 2-5 and 6-8 Type of Experience: King & Spalding seeks one junior to mid-level associate and one senior associate for its WTO and International Trade practice in Geneva. Qualified candidates will have experience in WTO
Simon Lester 08 Feb 2013 1 min read

Negotiating Trade Agreements between Developed and Developing Countries

From a speech by WTO DG Pascal Lamy: Agreement is still lacking on the balance of contributions and benefits between the US, the EU, Japan and the like on the one side, and India, China, Brazil and the like on the other side. Advanced economies argue that emerging economies have
Simon Lester 08 Feb 2013 1 min read

The "Mercantilism of Ideas"

From a paper by some economists, titled "The Case Against Patents": Current international trade negotiations that affect patents often occur as part of either the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which was signed in 1995 as part of the World Trade Organization negotiations,
Simon Lester 08 Feb 2013 1 min read

Liberalizing Cross-Border Trade in Higher Education

Here's something that the many academics reading this blog may be interested in.  I've mentioned MOOCs (massive open online courses) briefly a couple times.  Now I've written something more detailed:  A Cato paper called Liberalizing Cross-Border Trade in Higher Education: The Coming Revolution
Simon Lester 05 Feb 2013 1 min read

Will Deep Integration Sink the TPP?

From an op-ed in the Santiago Times: ... the insistence on achieving so-called “deep integration,” primarily of interest to U.S. negotiators, is undermining negotiations and obscuring what should be the ultimate goal of the TPP process: easier movement of goods and services across the Pacific. ... ... despite clear and
Simon Lester 04 Feb 2013 1 min read

Investor-State and Section 337

Bear with me for a second, I'm going to play a little fast and loose with the facts of an actual case here.  Consider the following scenario. Imagine Samsung has built an assembly factory for its smartphones and tablets here in the U.S.  It imports some components
Simon Lester 04 Feb 2013 1 min read

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