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BIICL Training Course on WTO Law

This is from the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL): The training course in WTO Law offers an in-depth dynamic and applied knowledge of the regulatory framework of the multilateral trading system, covering both the institutional and substantive law of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The WTO has
Inu Manak 20 Mar 2023 1 min read

Guest Post: The EU’s Industrial Strategy and Supply “Resilience”

This is a guest post from Victor Crochet, Trade lawyer and PhD student at Cambridge University In response to the United States of America (“US”) Inflation Reduction Act and regained interest in industrial policies, the European Union (“EU”) recently announced its Green Deal Industrial Plan. The EU’s goal with
Simon Lester 19 Mar 2023 4 min read

First CPTPP Panel Composed

As noted on the blog here, in May 2022 New Zealand filed the first ever CPTPP consultations request, relating to Canadian measures "concerning the allocation of dairy tariff rate quotas (TRQs) under CPTPP (dairy TRQ allocation measures)." A panel request was filed in November 2022. On March 9,
Simon Lester 16 Mar 2023 1 min read

From Karl Sauvant on an Advisory Centre on International Investment Law

9 March 2023 Establishing an Advisory Centre on International Investment Law: Key challenges ahead by Karl P. Sauvant* Over 130 countries (of which some 80 developing countries, including 18 least developed countries) have so far faced treaty-based international investment disputes (74 new disputes in 2021 alone), for a total of
Trachtman 11 Mar 2023 11 min read

Japan Joins the MPIA

There seems to be a bit of momentum with the MPIA these days. There was the recently issued Colombia - Frozen Fries award, which MPIA Arbitrator Joost Pauwelyn told us about. And now Japan is joining the arrangement, as METI just announced: More than three years have passed since the
Simon Lester 10 Mar 2023 1 min read

The MPIA: What's New (Part III)

Now that I addressed what the MPIA is and whether/how it works, let me turn to the third, and final, post in this series: What are some of the novelties that can be found in the first MPIA procedure? The list of eight items below is limited to procedural/
Joost Pauwelyn 06 Mar 2023 9 min read

One More Time on Manufacturing and Trade Balances

Rob Atkinson was nice enough to respond to my post on manufacturing and trade balances. I have thoughts on a lot of the points he made, but to keep the debate as simple and clear as possible, I'm going to try to focus on a few key issues,
Simon Lester 01 Mar 2023 3 min read

The MPIA: What's New? (Part II)

In my first post of last week, I briefly explained what the MPIA is. In this second post, I ask the question whether the MPIA worked, now that the first MPIA appeal was filed. I also offer a roadmap with the key steps of the MPIA process. Did it Work?
Joost Pauwelyn 27 Feb 2023 7 min read

How Deliberation Can Help the WTO, but Not Fix It

This week, the European Union circulated a proposal for WTO reform focusing on the organization’s deliberative function. The EU is upfront and direct in saying that its top priorities for reform are still the same—getting dispute settlement back online, building on multilateral and plurilateral negotiations, and the development
Inu Manak 23 Feb 2023 6 min read

Manufacturing and Trade Balances: A Response from Rob Atkinson

This is a response from Rob Atkinson of ITIF to my post on Manufacturing and Trade Balances: Recently Simon Lester and I got in a Twitter debate about the importance of the trade deficit and manufacturing. Interesting as far as these things go, but at some point you can only
Simon Lester 22 Feb 2023 3 min read

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Guest Post: Too Big To Fail: The EU Steel Industry, Article XXVIII of the GATT 1994 and the EU’s Free Trade Agreements

This is a guest post by trade lawyer Victor Crochet and law professor Weihuan Zhou Steel has long been a contentious topic in international trade, in part because of the numerous jobs it creates and its relevance to downstream industries including those related to national defense. In the European Union
13 Oct 2025 8 min read

Beware the "Securitization" of Trade Policy

In recent years, U.S. trade policy has seen a creeping takeover by "security" concerns. The precise scope of these concerns is unclear, but they appear to cover both the traditional aspects of military-related security as well as the vague and amorphous concept of "economic security."
06 Oct 2025 4 min read

Stephen Miran on Tariffs and National Savings

In a speech earlier this week, Stephen Miran, who had been the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and is now a member of the Federal Reserve Board, made his case for a looser monetary policy. One aspect of his argument was that he thinks national savings will be
24 Sep 2025 4 min read

A GOP Tariff Working Group and Post-Trump U.S. Trade Politics

The Hill reported last week that a handful of pro-trade Republicans in Congress used some leverage during a vote about voting on tariffs – it's complicated, check out the details at the link for more! – to get a Republican working group on tariffs established: And [Tom] McClintock [R-CA] said
21 Sep 2025 4 min read

The Japan-U.S. Investment MOU: Centrally Planned Foreign Investment?

In the last post, Mona set out the basics of the Japan-U.S. MOU on "Strategic Investments" in the U.S. – or at least, a version of the MOU that was posted by the Japanese government online, although we don't know for sure if this is
14 Sep 2025 3 min read

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