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Charnovitz: USTR Can Do Better at Fulfilling its FOIA Responsibilities

Steve Charnovitz is posting at Eyes on Trade this week and asked me to cross-post over here. Here's his first post: by Steve Charnovitz I want to thank Public Citizen for inviting me to be a guest blogger this week. I believe this invitation is especially noteworthy

India's View of Carbon Tariffs (and Carbon Caps)

From Bloomberg: India won’t bend to demands from the Obama administration or threats from the U.S. Congress to adopt legally binding caps on its carbon emissions, the country’s environment minister told visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clintonyesterday. “There is simply no case for the pressure”

Dr. Larry Summers on Trade

This is an excerpt from the Summers speech Q&A in Washington on July 17 (from Federal News Service). Q I'm Steve Charnovitz of George Washington University. Thank you for that great presentation and for your excellent work over the last several months. My question is about

Zookz Update

The Antigua government is not amused by the Zookz position on the impact of the WTO Article 22.6 Gambling decision: St. John's, Antigua (PRWEB) July 17, 2009 -- It has come to the attention of the Government of Antigua and Barbuda that there is a web site named

"Today, on behalf of President Obama, I am here to affirm this administration's commitment to trade enforcement."

A key statement in USTR Ron Kirk's speech to Pennsylvania steel workers. More highlights: I am announcing several concrete new measures that will help to guarantee America's workers, businesses, and families a fair deal. We will take new steps to protect the rights of American farmers

Taking WTO Rulings A Bit Too Far

Many readers are probably familiar with the Antigua-U.S. Gambling dispute. I don't want to go through all the details here, but if you need a refresher, here's an overview from an ASIL Insight I did in 2008. I hadn't heard anything about

The WTO GMO Dispute Is 1/3 Over

The 1/3 being Canada's complaint. The complaints by Argentina and the United States remain unresolved. From the EC press release: EC regulatory procedures on genetically modified organisms are working normally, as evidenced by 21 authorisations since the date of establishment of the WTO panel. The European Commission

A New Approach to Food Aid?

Is our approach to food aid about to undergo a major transformation? From the NY Times: The food aid initiative, agreed upon at the Group of 8 summit meeting, is intended to transform traditional aid to poorer countries beyond simply donated produce, grains and meats to assistance building infrastructure and

Obama on Economic Development

From an Obama news conference at the G-8: when my father traveled to the United States from Kenya to study, at that time the per capita income and gross domestic product of Kenya was higher than South Korea's. Today obviously South Korea is a highly developed and

Swedish "Climate Labeling"

I've said before that I am a fan of carbon labeling. Here's a new example from Sweden: Sweden is developing standards to help consumers make conscious choices about the impact of their decisions on global warming. Products with at least 25% greenhouse gas savings will be