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More from the Cargill NAFTA Chapter 11 Award: Damages for "Upstream" Losses

Here's more from the Cargill NAFTA Chapter 11 Award: Conclusion of the Tribunal with respect to the Scope of Loss to Claimant to be Included in the Model: Whether Cargill, Inc.'s Loss of Sales to Cargill de Mexico is a Separate Export Loss or a Part

Can Authorized Trade Retaliation Violate Investment Law Provisions?

A reader emailed expressing concern about the Cargill NAFTA Chapter 11 Award, in particular this part: 299. Reviewing closely the record of this case, the Tribunal finds ample support for the conclusion that the import permit was one of a series of measures expressly intended to injure United States HFCS

Wisconsin and International Labor Law

I have not seen too much discussion of the international law features of Gov. Walker's proposal to end collective bargaining rights for state workers in Wisconsin. The right to collective bargaining is one of the so-called "core labor rights" that the U.S. uses for GSP

National Treatment in the NAFTA Chapter 11 Cargill Award

The Cargill v. Mexico NAFTA Chapter 11 award is available here. It was sent to the parties in September 2009, but it is just now being released publicly. In this post, I'm just going to make a quick point about the National Treatment analysis. When I first started

The Seal Products Dispute: Blocked for Now

The EU has blocked the first panel request in the WTO seal products dispute. From Bloomberg: The European Union blocked Canadian efforts to have the World Trade Organization decide whether an EU ban on trade in seal products breaks global trade rules. The EU won’t be able to prevent

Will the WTO Become Obsolete?

Writing in Newsweek, Daniel Altman argues that the future of free trade lies with bilateral and regional trade talks, and says "good riddance" to the WTO. I think he elaborates on his views in this book, but I haven't read it yet so I'll

More on Anti-Dumping Payments

Here's more on the issue of cash payments to settle anti-dumping cases, from a reader who wants to remain anonymous: The Wall Street Journal article has been picked up and commented on by others. See, e.g., http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/tony-soprano-meets-the-antidumping-law/; http://www.furnituretoday.com/article/535913-Antidumping_

Ontario's Dairy Restrictions under Canada's Agreement on Internal Trade

Sometimes when you just can't get enough international trade law, you have to look to domestic trade law. I've talked about the U.S. dormant commerce clause jurisprudence before. Now I see an opportunity to move North, with some discussion of the Canadian Agreement on Internal

The Seal Products Panel Requests

There are two of them, one for the DS369 dispute and one for the DS400 dispute. These were both brought by Canada; no word yet on whether Norway will be making a panel request to follow its consultations request in DS401. DS369 deals with consultations from 2007, relating to Belgian

Grand River Enterprises Update

I talked about the non-discrimination aspects of the Grand River Enterprises NAFTA Chapter 11 dispute here, here and here. Based on the arguments made by the parties, I was hopeful that the decision would have something interesting to say about these issues. Alas, it was not to be. The decision