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Trade Remedies in North America: Everything You Wanted to Know

That last part is not in the actual title of the book "Trade Remedies in North America," by Gregory Bowman, Nick Covelli, David Gantz, and Ihn Ho Uhm, but that's pretty much what the book is.  It covers the policy issues, the nitty-gritty of trade
Simon Lester 21 Jul 2010 2 min read

EC - Aircraft: The Appeal

... is coming tomorrow.  Reuters has the most detail I've seen so far.  The EU is appealing all of the obvious issues:  export contingency, causation of serious prejudice, and many of the existence of a subsidy / specificity findings.  Two other interesting issues to watch are the following: - The EU
Simon Lester 20 Jul 2010 1 min read

China's GPA Offer

From the FT: The US and other big trading partners of China are expected to reject Beijing’s latest proposal to join a global pact on government purchases because it does not go far enough in opening the $500bn Chinese procurement market to foreign businesses. ... The main concern about China’
Simon Lester 19 Jul 2010 1 min read

Australia Productivity Commission: Draft Report on Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements (including Investor-State)

Australia's Productivity Commission has prepared a draft report on Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements.  You can read it just for your own pleasure, but note that they are looking for input, so feel free to give them comments (by Friday 10 September 2010.)  Here are the draft recommendations.
Simon Lester 19 Jul 2010 7 min read

Debating Industrial Policy

The Economist has been debating industrial policy.  Well, sort of.  They were debating the proposition, "This house believes that industrial policy always fails."  I'm not sure that's how opponents of industrial policy would put it.  It would be something more like, "On balance,
Simon Lester 19 Jul 2010 1 min read

Development Aid: Show Them the Money?

I'm pretty sympathetic to this idea: In the last decade ... the governments of the nations where most of the world’s poorest actually live have begun to turn to an idea that seems radical in its simplicity: Solve poverty and spur development by simply giving out money. In
Simon Lester 19 Jul 2010 1 min read

A Brief History of Subsidies Regulation

With all this recent talk about subsidies, I was happy to stumble accross this excellent paper from former DDG Andy Stoler, "The Evolution of Subsidies Disciplines in GATT and the WTO."  Very informative and useful.
Simon Lester 16 Jul 2010 1 min read

The Aircraft Report: The EU Appeal

The FT reports: The European Union will next week launch an appeal against a World Trade Organisation ruling that found EU members were illegally subsidising Airbus. ... People familiar with the dispute said the EU appeal will focus on alleged export subsidies for the A380, Airbus’s largest jumbo launched in
Simon Lester 16 Jul 2010 1 min read

More on Nicolas Diebold's Non-Discrimination Paper

I want to say a bit more about Nicolas Diebold's SIEL conference paper "Non-Discrimination and the Pillars of International Economic Law – Comparative Analysis and Building Coherency".  I've read it more closely now, and I like it even better than when I first skimmed
Simon Lester 14 Jul 2010 8 min read

California's High Speed Rail and Foreign Companies

The Economist reports on a California law that may make it hard for certain foreign companies to bid on  high speed rail contracts: LAWMAKERS in California voted unanimously on June 29th to approve a proposed law which would force any company bidding for contracts to build the state’s new
Simon Lester 12 Jul 2010 1 min read

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China in the World Trading System: A Response to Chad, and Some Comments on Froman-Greer

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