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IEL Teaching Fellow Position at Stanford

Lots of good jobs to post about these days. Here's another: The Teaching Fellow in international economic law, business and policy will work with candidates in the LLM specialization in IELBP. The fellow will assume significant academic, advising and administrative responsibilities. He or she will be responsible for

Will USTR Go To Bat For Big Tobacco?

From the AP: Tobacco advocates are seething over a new Canadian law they claim will snuff out sales of cigarettes packed with U.S. burley, and they are fighting back to protect their export sales. They are asking U.S. trade officials to take their complaints to the World Trade

Exchange Rate Accusations

It's not just about China. From the Washington Post: This week, a top aide to French President Nicolas Sarkozy called the value of the dollar "a disaster" for Europe, warning of dire consequences to the global economy if it remains at its current levels. In some

Talking Tough on Carbon Tariffs

A difficult question from one of China's representatives to the WTO:"The United States per capita emission rate is four times as big as China's. Does that mean we can impose 400 percent tax rates on all imported American goods? If so, the result is

Trade Measures Against the Auto Bailout

They may be coming. From the FT: China is preparing to launch a trade investigation into whether US carmakers are being unfairly subsidised by the US government, according to people familiar with the matter....General Motors and Chrysler have received about $60bn in government bail-out funds, though Ford has received

Getting Around The Clove Cigarette Ban

I had been wondering if Indonesia would go forward with a WTO complaint against the U.S. ban on clove cigarettes, but had not heard anything. Perhaps this is why: A few weeks ago ... clove cigarettes were banned in the U.S. on the grounds that their fragrance is a

Two PPM Issues

For those of you who get excited about PPMs (process and production methods), on one side or the other, I just came across two such issues. 1. In a policy paper about sustainability standards for biofuel products, economists Harry de Gorter and David R. Just make the following point: 28.

Director of Legal Affairs at the WTO

I did a recent post about a job opening at the Advisory Centre on WTO Law, in which I said that these opportunities don't come along very often, so anyone who might possibly be interested should apply. Well, here's another job just like that: The Secretariat

Trade Versus the Environment: Local Content Requirements for Solar Energy

From thestar.com: The new Ontario requirement that grid-connected solar projects include a minimum amount of local content is causing a stir in Germany, where manufacturers say Canada is breaching its obligations to the World Trade Organization.... The new rules, which went into effect Oct. 1, require that small rooftop

Krugman: "Something must be done about China’s currency"

First he explains: The value of China’s currency, unlike, say, the value of the British pound, isn’t determined by supply and demand. Instead, Chinese authorities enforced that target by buying or selling their currency in the foreign exchange market ...And then he complains:U.S. officials have been