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More on Appellate Body Nominations

From Gary Hufbauer: The office of the US Trade Representative has taken the little noticed but highly unfortunate step of blocking Jennifer Hillman’s second term on the WTO Appellate Body. This is a bad omen, both for the World Trade Organization and the United States. ... The United States has

The Politicization of the Appellate Body Nomination Process

With two Appellate Body appointments coming soon, this paper -- entitled "Agents, Trustees, and International Courts: The Politics of Judicial Appointment at the World Trade Organization" -- by Manfred Elsig and Mark Pollack is very well-timed. From the intro: We present a view of an AB selection process

Is Chinese Investment in Africa Neo-Colonialism?

From an interview with Hillary Clinton on an African TV show, here was a question asked by the host: MR. MAROLENG: Madam Secretary, one of the things around the African Growth and Opportunity Act is that it’s also based on the notion that conditionality around good governance will lead

TRIPS and Australia's Draft Law on Plain Packaging of Cigarettes

From yesterday's TRIPS Council meeting: ... the Dominican Republic objected to a draft Australian law requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging without logos or trademarks. The brands would be identified simply in a standard typeface with large graphic health warnings. Australia originally notified the draft and the

Is Investment Treaty Arbitration Biased Against Developing Countries?

In a short paper, Kevin Gallagher and Elen Shrestha discuss the issue of whether investment treaty arbitration is biased against developing countries. They first note the argument of those who say there is no bias: Defenders claim that the system does not unfairly subject developing countries to arbitral panels. When

Is the TPP a Model for Future Trade Agreements?

Claude Barfield wonders whether the Trans-Pacific Partnership is "a model for twenty-first-century trade agreements." In this regard, he notes that: At the first meeting in Melbourne in March 2010, the negotiators established ten negotiating groups, including industrial goods, agriculture, sanitary and phytosanitary standards, telecommunications, financial services, customs rules

Zeroing at the Supreme Court?

Following-up on this post, here's the question presented to the U.S. Supreme Court in a cert. petition filed by steel company Nucor last week: Whether the Tariff Act of 1930—which defines “dumping” as “the sale or likely sale of goods at less than fair value” and

A WTO Moot Court Dynasty?

Melbourne Law School has won again: Melbourne Law School has won the prestigious 2011 European Law Students’ Association Moot Court Competition on the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. Melbourne’s team comprised law students Philip Aitken (Juris Doctor), Glyn Ayres (Juris Doctor), Daniel Ari Baker (Bachelor

Intent, Export Contingency, and National Treatment

Do the Appellate Body's statements in EC - Aircraft on de facto export contingency tell us anything about the National Treatment standard? The Panel's findings had seemed to place a lot of emphasis on the reasons for the measure as the basis for determining whether export

John Magnus on the Appellate Body's Double Remedies Ruling

He doesn't like it. Here's one part of why: The following is a fair summary of the AB decision. Domestic subsidies when used to reduce export price will, unless they also produce a lower normal value calculation, increase the recipient’s dumping margin and be offset