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Server Farm Subsidies

From the AP: Facebook will build a new server farm on the edge of the Arctic Circle — its first outside the U.S. — that will improve performance for European users of the social networking site, officials said Thursday. ... Facebook didn't give the price of its investment, but Lulea

TPP's Regulatory Coherence Chapter

I feel like much of the talk about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) relates to IP and health issues. More interesting to me is the proposed (and recently leaked) "regulatory coherence" chapter. Here's an excerpt: 1. Through its national coordinating body, process or mechanism, each Party,

Section 337 and Extraterritoriality

From customs law blogger Larry Friedman, here is a brief summary of an interesting Section 337 case, Tianrui Group v. International Trade Commission: The underlying issue in this case is interesting for two reasons. First, it relates to trade secrets. Second, it relates to activity occurring entirely in China. The

The Interpretative Use of Object and Purpose in TRIPS Cases

A guest post from Henning Grosse Ruse - Khan: "The TRIPS Agreement is probably the only WTO Agreement which contains explicit textual expression of its object and purpose in its Articles 7 and 8. At the same time, it has a lot of provisions with (constructive) ambiguities where a treaty

More on the SolarWorld AC/CVD Complaint

Following up on the last post, I was curious about the reference to "WTO-legal subsidies and WTO-illegal subsidies." So I asked the SolarWorld people the following question: In what way are the Chinese subsidies "WTO-illegal"? Does that mean that they violate the SCM

More on Responses to Foreign Subsidies

Yesterday brought news of an AC/CVD petition in the U.S. in relation to imports of Chinese solar panels. Here's the FT: A coalition of US solar panel manufacturers asked on Wednesday for retaliatory tariffs on imports of panels from China, the first such case filed in

“Do Subsidies Justify Retaliatory Protectionism?”

From economist Don Boudreaux: As an empirical matter ... the costs of subsidies are borne chieﬂy by citizens of the country whose government uses subsidies while the beneﬁt of subsidies is enjoyed overwhelmingly by that country’s trading partners. Still – because trade makes markets less and less national and more and

Call for Papers: Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law

Call for Papers: March 2012 Symposium, International Economic Law Interest Group, Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Following the success of its inaugural symposium in February 2011, the International Economic Law Interest Group of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) is holding a research

Romney vs. Huntsman on Trade

From Tuesday's GOP debate: ROSE: ... We also know here that there has been a paradigm shift in the world economic order. We know about China and we know about India. Here is our next clip and we will respond from that. Here it is. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ROMNEY:

Passage of the U.S. Trade Agreements

As everyone has probably heard at this point, yesterday the U.S. Congress approved trade agreements with Korea, Colombia and Panama. They will now be signed into law by President Obama. I feel obligated to say something about this. But I'm not quite sure what to say. If