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State Dept Investment Law Job

See here: Job Title:Deputy Assistant Legal Adviser Department:Department Of State Job Announcement Number:CSHRM-2012-0022 SALARY RANGE: $119,554.00 to $179,700.00 / Per Year OPEN PERIOD: Friday, August 10, 2012 to Friday, August 24, 2012 SERIES & GRADE: ES-0905-00 POSITION INFORMATION: Full Time - Permanent   DUTY LOCATIONS:
Simon Lester 11 Aug 2012 2 min read

Institute for Transnational Arbitration Winter Forum

From law prof Jarrod Wong: The Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) will be holding its Second Annual Winter Forum at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami, Florida on January 24-25, 2013. The first half of the Winter Forum will showcase two works-in-progress selected pursuant to a Call-for-Papers, encompassing presentations by authors,
Simon Lester 11 Aug 2012 1 min read

Investor-State in China

Law professor Leon Trakman writes about China's "prolifering investment treaty program": Notwithstanding China’s endorsement of investor-state arbitration more than a decade ago, only one investor claim has been initiated against it and it was withdrawn.  This does not necessarily mean that foreign investors will not
Simon Lester 08 Aug 2012 2 min read

Investor-State in Australia

The Australian business community fights back: Sixteen peak business groups and leading companies have sent a letter of protest to Julia Gillard over the government's refusal to include provisions in a series of pending trade agreements that would protect the property and legal rights of Australian companies in
Simon Lester 08 Aug 2012 1 min read

The End of NAFTA Chapter 19?

Here's a letter sent by a number of members of congress -- including frequent trade critic Mike Michaud -- to President Obama relating to the TPP: August 2, 2012 The Honorable Barack Obama President of the United States 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: Rules-based
Simon Lester 03 Aug 2012 2 min read

Lots of WTO Disputes This Year

Here is a table showing WTO complaints (consultations requests) for 2004-2012: YearNumber of Standard DSU Complaints, by year 2012 14 2011 8 2010 17 2009 14 2008 19 2007 13 2006 20 2005 12 2004 19 Here's a similar table for "matters", which is a subjective
Simon Lester 26 Jul 2012 2 min read

Market Economy Treatment in EU Law

Over at the European Law Blog, Jess Lawrence provides a good summary of a recent ECJ case: Last week’s Xinanchem judgment, however, is a significant step along the path toward normalized trade relations between China and the EU. In this case, which Advocate General Kokott called “of fundamental importance
Simon Lester 26 Jul 2012 3 min read

Antidumping Measures and Global Supply Chains

Recently, domestic solar cell (module) producers in both sides of the Atlantic have redoubled their efforts to stop the influx of cheaper rival products from China.  Predictably, they rely heavily on trade remedies such as antidumping measures. Of course, protectionism of this sort, in particular amid the recession, is hardly
Sungjoon Cho 25 Jul 2012 1 min read

The Proposed Made in USA Olympic Uniform Legislation

I did a post on this on the Cato blog here.  Here's an IELP version.  (You can see the difference in tone with what I say on this blog!) We now have the technical details of the Olympic uniform controversy, as the proposed Senate legislation is available.   Some
Simon Lester 20 Jul 2012 2 min read

ASIL IEcLIG Call for Papers

I'm reposting this because the submission deadline is coming up.  From the ASIL/IEcLIG: 2012 Biennial Interest Group Conference: Re-Conceptualizing International Economic Law: Bridging the Public/Private Divide George Washington University Law School Washington D.C., USA November 29-December 1, 2012 I.         Conference Theme The ASIL International Economic
Simon Lester 20 Jul 2012 3 min read

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Jamieson Greer on the 30 Year Aberration in U.S. Trade Policy

When he was in Davos last week for the World Economic Forum, U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer talked a bit about U.S. trade policy history and described a recent period during which, in his view, U.S. trade policy shifted away from tariffs/protectionism and towards free trade.
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Is this the end of MFN as we know it? The EU submission on WTO reform and the meaning of development

With the release of the EU submission on WTO reform, it has become clear that the MFN principle’s central role within the WTO architecture is under challenge. As a keystone, it risks the entire bridge falling. Even if the foundations are retained but deemed outdated or unusable, and a
23 Jan 2026 3 min read

Can "Geopolitical" Tariffs Be Dealt With through Trade Deals?

Last Friday, U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer was asked about Trump's initial suggestion of tariffs related to the goal of taking over Greenland
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Is Foreign Antitrust Enforcement "Discriminatory" and "Anti-American"?

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust held a hearing in December on "Anti-American Antitrust: How Foreign Governments Target U.S. Businesses." There was a lot of talk at the hearing about how foreign regulations and regulators "discriminate" against American companies.
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Pennsylvania Court Finds Mexican Government Guilty of "Discrimination" Due To Its Subsidies

I'm always interested in how courts apply the concept of "discrimination" in the context of international trade, so I've been eagerly awaiting a Pennsylvania court decision in a case against Mexico.
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