Is China's Currency Policy Protectionist At All?
The Economist isn't so sure:
A beefed-up version of the Big Mac index suggests that the Chinese yuan is now close to its fair value against the dollar.
More from Scott Lincicome here.
Is China the Biggest Protectionist in History?
From Fred Bergsten:
But China and some other emerging markets, especially in its immediate neighborhood, are also violating some of the most fundamental rules of the international economic system, to the great detriment of the United States and many other countries. A cardinal goal of the International Monetary Fund, which
Protectionism and Japan's Tsunami Relief Effort
From USA Today:
Almost four months after the March 11 tsunami destroyed their home, Kazuko Abe moved her family of four into temporary housing in July.
"It doesn't matter to me who built the houses, I just wish they could have been quicker," said Abe, 66,
Junior IEL Scholars Forum
From the IELIG:
The International Economic Law Interest Group (IELIG) is pleased to announce its inaugural "Safe Spaces Roundtable" for junior scholars. The Safe Spaces Roundtable will provide junior scholars with detailed feedback from more senior colleagues on early drafts of their work. The Roundtable will be closed
Using Trade Law to Enforce Investment Law
From Reuters:
A U.S. company plans to ask the Obama administration for help in recovering more than $230 million it says it is owned by the government of Argentina, an attorney for the company said on Monday.
Stephen Kho, a lawyer with the Akin Gump law firm, said it
The Environmental Kuznets Curve and GATT Article XX
From last month's China - Exportation of Raw Materials panel report:
7.551 We now turn to analyse the second step in China's argument about the long-term benefits of export restrictions on EPR products, namely that there is a strong link between higher growth and environmental
Sea Turtles, Dolphins, Seals ... and Sharks?
Marine life has played an important role in GATT/WTO dispute settlement. Here's an argument for bringing sharks into the mix:
Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans, called on the United States government today to ban the import of shark
Investor-State: Learning as We Go
On SSRN, here's the abstract of a paper entitled "When the Claim Hits: Bilateral Investment Treaties and Bounded Rational Learning," by Lauge Skovgaard Poulsen and Emma Aisbett:
Using the international investment regime as its point of departure, the paper introduces notions of bounded rationality to the
Delineating the Outer Limits of Investment Treaties
In an ASIL Insight entitled "The Australian Trade Policy Statement on Investor-State Dispute Settlement," Jürgen Kurtz writes:
States can protect domestic policy space in an investment treaty by clearly delineating the outer limits of substantive obligations and/or crafting exceptions for state conduct. For instance, the investment chapter
The Purpose of International Investment Agreements
From a paper by Anne Van Aaken and Tobias A. Lehmann, entitled "Investment and Sustainable Development: Developing a New Conceptual Framework":
It is already questionable whether the only purpose of [International Investment Agreements] IIAs is the protection of investment. Rather, as most preambles reveal, protection of investment is