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Dan Drezner on China's Great Firewall as a Trade Barrier

His full post: Well, there certainly are a surfeit of Sino - Americantiffsgoing on at the moment . Over at Reason, Ron Bailey offers an intriguing solution to one of these problems -- use the WTO as a crowbar to bring down the Great Firewall of China : When China joined the

2009 SIEL/CUP Prize for an Essay on International Economic Law

The Society of International Economic Law is pleased to announce the results of the 2009 SIEL/CUP Essay Prize Competition. Winner Krzysztof Pelc, 'Eluding Efficiency: Why Do We Not See More Efficient Breach at the WTO?' Highly Commended Lisa Hemingway, 'What's in a Turn? A

Trade Questions for Obama

From Arlen Specter: I have a two-part question, and just a brief statement of the issue. We have lost 2.3 million jobs as a result of the trade imbalance with China between 2001 and 2007. The remedies to save those jobs are very ineffective -- long delays, proceedings before

How Foreign Investment Creates Domestic Jobs

In the WSJ, economist Matthew Slaughter writes: Academic research, including most recently by Harvard's Mihir Desai and Fritz Foley and University of Michigan's James Hines, has consistently found that expansion abroad by U.S. multinationals tends to support jobs based in the U.S. More investment

Vietnam's First WTO Complaint

From Reuters: Vietnam has launched its first dispute at the World Trade Organisation with a case against U.S. anti-dumping measures on its key exports of shrimp. The communist state only joined the global trade arbiter three years ago, and its economy like China's has benefited strongly from

Global Administrative Law and GATT Article X

From a draft paper by Richard Stewart of NYU Law School, entitled "THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW": The WTO imposes extensive GAL requirements of transparency, participation, reason giving and review on decision making by members’ domestic administrative bodies in order to ensure even-handed

Investment Treaty Arbitration and Censorship

From Luke Peterson: There are growing signs that investment treaty protections – while rarely discussed in media or human rights law circles - may be surprisingly useful in some cases of repression or censorship of foreign-owned media. While there is growing debate as to the uses of World Trade Organization agreements

Chinese Sanctions on U.S. Companies

From CNN: China has threatened to slap sanctions on American companies that sell arms to its rival Taiwan as part of a range of punitive actions Beijing is taking to protest the deal. I'm not sure what sanctions they have in mind, but it's hard to

Obama "will be talking more about trade this year"

From a Q & A session between Obama and some Republicans: REP. ROSKAM: - ... And on the job-creation piece in particular, you mentioned Colombia, you mentioned Panama, you mentioned South Korea. Are you willing to work with us, for example, to make sure those FTAs get called? That's

High Speed Rail: A Stimulus for Foreign Companies?

From the AP: President Barack Obama is pitching his $8 billion high-speed rail program to Americans as a jobs generator that will revitalize the domestic rail industry. But the full picture is more complicated. Building ultra-fast trains won't create the kind of high-tech, high-paying jobs Americans covet any