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More Support for Consumption-Based Carbon Reduction

At Vox, Rahel Aichele and Gabriel Felbermayr explain how production-based carbon reduction can lead to carbon leakage: Production-based CO2 emission targets can give rise to carbon leakage, as firms relocate to countries without carbon policies. This column shows that Kyoto countries’ embodied CO2 imports have been increasing by
Simon Lester 05 Feb 2010 1 min read

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 World Trade
Simon Lester 04 Feb 2010 2 min read

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
Lorand Bartels 04 Feb 2010 1 min read

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
Simon Lester 03 Feb 2010 1 min read

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
Simon Lester 03 Feb 2010 1 min read

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
Simon Lester 02 Feb 2010 1 min read

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-
Simon Lester 02 Feb 2010 1 min read

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
Simon Lester 31 Jan 2010 1 min read

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
Simon Lester 31 Jan 2010 1 min read

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
Simon Lester 31 Jan 2010 2 min read

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