Recall the issue with a U.S. law that imposed a fee on visa applications where the companies involved have a high percentage of workers who use the special visas given to skilled foreign workers, discussed here and here.  There seemed to be a disparate impact on India, and hence

From The Economist: Some legal tasks cannot be done cheaply. If the fate of your company hinges on the verdict, you will want a brilliant lawyer to argue your case. But plenty of legal jobs are routine. American law firms typically get fresh law graduates to do such grunt work

It's pretty well established that trade agreements today are controversial.  But how does the situation compare to the past?  I was recently digging around the NY Times archives for something non-trade related, and I thought I'd see what was being said about the original GATT negotiations.

From Cato's Dan Ikenson, writing in Forbes: The U.S.antidumping law still enjoys broad bipartisan support in Congress and within pockets of the executive branch. Although some of that support can be chalked up to politicians representing the narrow interests of influential constituencies that have mastered the

From the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand: The American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand (AMCHAM) plans on conducting a  symposium in the latter part of 2011 on plurilateral and bilateral FTAs  generally and the challenges Thailand will likely face meeting its AFTA  obligations by 2015 specifically.  As part of