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The Response to Buy America

From Canada's National Post: The federal government is looking to cut a deal with Washington that would persuade U.S. legislators to repeal controversial Buy American measures that Canadian firms say are costing them sales and forcing them to shed jobs. The key element of such a pact,

Trade in Everything: Self-Outsourcing?

A reader points me to the following from the Onion: More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas

Subsidy Wars

Moving away from cars, over to agriculture: Twenty-nine countries at the World Trade Organization criticized the United States on Wednesday for reintroducing export subsidies on U.S. dairy products, calling the handouts a dangerous retreat into protectionism and warning of "subsidy wars." ... The U.S. view was

Using Free Trade to Promote Development

Over at vox, Kimberly Elliott says the U.S. should lower tariffs on imports from poor countries: ... the Doha Round, under the best of circumstances, will take some time to conclude, and the US and other rich countries should move as quickly as possible to further open their markets to

Lowering the Costs of Cap and Trade

The Economist reports the following on the latest "cap and trade" proposals in the U.S.: On May 15th Henry Waxman and Edward Markey, the Democratic point-men on climate change in the House of Representatives, unveiled a bill that would give away 85% of carbon permits for

Congrats to the ELSA WTO Moot Court Winners!

Andrew Mitchell of Melbourne Law School writes with the following: Melbourne Law School has won the 2008-2009 European Law Students’ Association WTO Moot Court Competition in Taipei! The Melbourne team, comprising Laura Bellamy (LLB), Rudi Kruse (JD), Erica Leaney (LLB) and Christopher Tran (LLB) and coached by Associate Professors

Beef Hormones: A Few More Details Emerge

In two recent posts, we had been talking about the U.S.-EU beef agreement. The agreement seemed to be mostly about market access for non-hormone treated beef, which led me to wonder what everyone involved had in mind in relation to market access for hormone-treated beef. USTR

U.S. Beverages Taxes

Taxes on beverages have a long and interesting history in GATT/WTO dispute settlement. I hope Congress keeps this in mind as they consider taxing soda and alcoholic beverages to help pay for health care reform. See here, here and here for details. The last article notes that the soda

Trade Liberalization that Dani Rodrik Can Get Behind

I am often left wondering what Dani Rodrik thinks of trade. I try to parse his various criticisms of the current trade regime, but I still can't figure out where exactly he stands on core issues such as, "Is protectionism a good policy?" Most likely, his

Metric Labeling as a Trade Barrier

The Commerce Department announces a victory with regard to EU metric labeling: The Commerce Department today announced the successful culmination of its efforts to ensure extension of both non-metric and metric labeling provisions on product packaging for U.S. businesses exporting to the European Union—saving U.S. firms