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Trade Versus the Environment: Imported Toyota Hybrids

From Bloomberg: Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s biggest seller of autos powered by a combination of gasoline and electricity, faces a patent-infringement claim that may result in a U.S. import ban on its Prius and other hybrid models. Closely held Paice LLC filed a complaint yesterday with

The WTO Cotton Dispute: Another Compliance Panel?

Not too many years ago, it was a bit unclear whether a respondent in a WTO dispute could go to DSU Article 21.5 and ask a panel to declare that it was in compliance, so as to put an end to the trade sanctions it was facing. However, the

Trade Preferences and Human Rights: The Case of Sri Lanka

As a quick update on these two posts, the Economist reports that Sri Lanka is not likely to continue to benefit from the EU's GSP Plus tariff preference program: The confidential 130-page report, which has been obtained by The Economist, concludes that Sri Lanka has failed to

The WTO Airbus Ruling: Some Non-Substantive Details

The WSJ says it's 1,000 pages: Trade-law specialists say the 1,000-page document's wording will be ambiguous enough to allow the EU to appeal unfavorable findings Here's another non-substantive question: Will the document be leaked? No doubt it will be

"Can a New Cast Save Global Trade Talks?"

From the headline of a NY Times article. They say that India is now ready to move ahead, but they are less sure about the U.S.: While there are signs that the host of this week’s session, India, has become more willing to bargain, negotiators are still trying

Obama Trade Policy Speech Coming Soon?

Washington Trade Daily just tweeted: USTR Kirk just told reporters President Obama will deliver his long-awaited trade policy speech sometime before the G-20 meeting Sept 24. "Long-awaited" is right. I had been expecting to spend much of the past few months blogging about the new

The Cotton 22.6 Decision(s): A Chance to Test TRIPS Retaliation?

The Article 22.6 Arbitration decision in the U.S. - Cotton case was issued today. Or rather, the decisions, plural. There is one decision related to actionable subsidies and one decision related to prohibited subsidies. So what do they say? Well, I'm still trying to finish up the

Alan Sykes on Comparative Subsidies Regulation

With the EC - Aircraft Subsidies interim panel report almost upon us, this seems like a good time to talk about disciplines on subsidies. Alan Sykes' new paper "The Questionable Case for Subsidies Regulation: A Comparative Perspective," available on SSRN, is a good starting point. Here's

Yet More on Solar Panel Dumping

As a follow up on these two posts, The Australian reports the following: THE Coalition has called for an urgent investigation into the potential dumping of cut-price Chinese solar panels into Australia, which threatens to undermine a fledgling domestic solar power industry.Federal opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt wrote

Is There a Tires - Auto Parts Link?

As I mentioned earlier today, China has said it will implement the China - Auto Parts WTO decision by removing the offending measure (we don't have the full details yet as to what exactly they will do). A Reuters article on this issue makes an interesting point: China'