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PhD and Post-Doc Positions in IEL

Law professor llaria Espa sends along the following announcements about some IEL positions: - Postdoctoral position in International Economic Law at the Law Institute, Faculty of Economics at USI Università della Svizzera italiana - PhD position in International Economic Law at the Law Institute, Faculty of Economics at USI Università
Simon Lester 18 Nov 2023 1 min read

New Paper on WTO Security Exception

Trade lawyers Stephen Kho, Yujin McNamara, Sarah Kirwin, and Brooke Davies have a new working paper published by the Graduate Institute, entitled "The Conundrum of the Essential Security Exception: Can the WTO Resolve the GATT Article XXI Crisis and Save the Dispute Settlement Mechanism?" This is from their
Simon Lester 13 Nov 2023 1 min read

What Does the Biden Administration Like about the 1950s-1970s Economy and Trade Policy?

In a new Foreign Affairs piece where he makes the case for the Biden administration's approach to foreign policy, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan talks up what he sees as the good things that were happening in U.S. economic policy in the 1950s through the 1970s, and
Simon Lester 13 Nov 2023 4 min read

Conference: The UK’s Accession to CPTPP: Legal and Policy Issues

Lorand Bartels sent along this notice of a CPTPP conference: The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge is holding a conference on ‘The UK’s Accession to CPTPP’ on 1 December 2023, covering legal, policy, and geostrategic issues. Details and registration: https://www.lcil.cam.ac.
Simon Lester 11 Nov 2023 1 min read

Understanding the "Progressive Nationalist" View of Trade and International Economic Policy

I don't think it will come as a shock to anyone to hear that people who write about politics and policy often have an ideological agenda. (And yes, I confess that sometimes I have one! Maybe I should label my posts that have an ideological agenda so as
Simon Lester 08 Nov 2023 8 min read

Is the Foreign Pollution Fee Bill WTO-Compliant?

Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have introduced the Foreign Pollution Fee bill (S.3198), which would impose a fee on certain carbon-intense imports. A FAQ document for the bill explains how this would work: The legislation imposes a fee on products imported into the U.S. that
Simon Lester 05 Nov 2023 3 min read

The U.S. Changes Its Mind in the WTO E-Commerce Negotiations

The U.S. made headlines last week by withdrawing some proposals it had previously made on specific aspects of the WTO Joint Statement Initiative on E-commerce negotiations. Many pro-trade people were upset by this decision, but for reasons I will explain below, I wasn't as bothered. My first
Simon Lester 30 Oct 2023 4 min read

ISDS Event at Georgetown Law Tomorrow

This is from Georgetown Law's Center on Inclusive Trade and Development: Please join Senator Elizabeth Warren and Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz on Wednesday, October 25, 1:30-2:30 PM ET for a special event on the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) regime. Georgetown Law’s Center on Inclusive Trade
Simon Lester 24 Oct 2023 1 min read

Political Compromise and Reducing Carbon Emissions

In a new paper, law prof Tim Meyer offers a defense of combining (1) discriminatory regulations such as local content requirements with (2) subsidies to reduce carbon emissions. In the abstract of the paper, he says: Second, like all policies, green trade policies usually pursue multiple objectives. The fact that
Simon Lester 23 Oct 2023 5 min read

The Fifth USMCA Panel

Yesterday, there was a notice posted here about panel composition in the Mexico - GE Corn (USMCA) case, with the following panelists having been appointed: * Christian Häberli, Chair of the panel * Hugo Perezcano Díaz, panelist * Jean E. Kalicki, panelist Kalicki is American and Perezcano Díaz is Mexican, so even though
Simon Lester 20 Oct 2023 1 min read

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War Tariffs

This is a co-authored post by Kathleen Claussen and Tim Meyer. Last week, President Trump announced that the United States would be imposing new tariffs of 50 percent of the value of any product coming from any country that sells weapons or provides military aid to Iran. Some commentators questioned
14 Apr 2026 5 min read

USMCA Review and Extension Predictions

When the idea of an expiration clause was suggested during the NAFTA renegotiation, I was against it from the start, and Inu and I wrote a pretty critical piece about it at the time. A review is great, we said, let's definitely have reviews, and there are plenty of ways to do that.
08 Apr 2026 5 min read

The Section 301 Surge Continues: Investigating the Adoption/Enforcement/Administration of Forced Labor Import Bans

This Section 301 investigation intends to pressure all sixty named trade partners (even, inexplicably, including Canada and Mexico) to adopt similar enforcement procedures. This announcement is highly problematic for the four reasons I address below.
16 Mar 2026 4 min read

The Section 301 Surge Is Upon Us: Investigating Excess Capacity and Production

The first of a large batch of expected Section 301 investigations has arrived, as USTR announced yesterday that it was initiating investigations on acts, policies, and practices of various countries/economies "relating to structural excess capacity and production in manufacturing sectors."
12 Mar 2026 3 min read

Debunking the "Hyperglobalization" Trade Policy Myth

Policy is often shaped by narratives, and recently there has been a bipartisan effort to create a narrative that, starting in the early 1990s, globalization and free trade went too far.
03 Mar 2026 8 min read

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