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Do Trade Agreements Involve More or Less Deference to Business?

This is something Beth Baltzan, a Senior Advisor at USTR, said at last week's Economist Impact's 2nd annual Global Trade Week as part of a panel discussion on digital trade agreements: We need to think about the philosophy that led to the creation of the trade
Simon Lester 05 Jul 2022 2 min read

Online Symposium: The Global Economy, the Sustainable Development Goals & the Law Symposium

From the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL): What are the laws and public policies linking our global economy with sustainability? How can law and governance innovations, worldwide, contribute to people, prosperity and protection of our planet? Please Register Here Now for The Global Economy, the Sustainable Development Goals
Simon Lester 05 Jul 2022 1 min read

Guest Post: Full carbon pricing, average carbon intensity and the Global Steel and Aluminium Arrangement: in conversation with Bixuan Xu and Aaron Cosbey

This is a guest post by Dr Giulia Claudia Leonelli of Birkbeck College, University of London In June 2022, the Clean Competition Act was introduced in the US Senate. Bixuan Xu has developed an insightful comparison of the Whitehouse Bill and the EU proposal for a carbon border adjustment mechanism
Simon Lester 03 Jul 2022 6 min read

Guest Post: Response to Bixuan Wu on EU's CBAM

This is a response by Aaron Cosbey to the July 1, 2022 IELP Blog Guest Post by Bixuan Wu: The EU’s CBAM The author concludes that the EU’s CBAM is primarily about pressuring other countries into raising domestic carbon prices. This is not so. It’s primarily aimed
Simon Lester 03 Jul 2022 2 min read

Guest Post: To penalize low carbon price or high carbon intensity? – A comparison of the EU’s CBAM and the U.S. Clean Competition Act

This is a guest post from trade lawyer Bixuan Wu of the Hiways law firm: The EU’s CBAM On June 22, the European Parliament adopted its “first reading” position on the regulation establishing a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). After the vote, rapporteur Mohammed Chahim said the CBAM would
Simon Lester 01 Jul 2022 7 min read

Call for Submissions: Trade, Law and Development

This is from the Managing Editor of Trade, Law and Development: Trade, Law and Development is a student-edited journal published by the National Law University, Jodhpur. The Journal has been consistently ranked as the best law journal in India across all fields and the 10th best journal in the field
Inu Manak 30 Jun 2022 1 min read

Katherine Tai on Incompatible Economic Systems

Last week during a Senate subcommittee hearing, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai responded to a question from Senator Braun with the following discussion of trade between market-oriented and non-market-oriented economies: But that's not the sum total of the challenge that we have, and I think that in
Simon Lester 26 Jun 2022 6 min read

Russian Aggression on Ukraine from the International Economic Law Perspective – Call for Papers

This is from Professor Marcin Menkes: The Warsaw School of Economics and the University of Szeged, ELKH Center for Social Sciences, are organizing the ESIL-supported conference on the timely topic: “Russian Aggression on Ukraine from the International Economic Law Perspective“. The conference will take place online in a webinar format
Simon Lester 23 Jun 2022 1 min read

SIEL Conversations: The Outcomes of MC12 and the Future of the Multilateral Trading System

From the SIEL: SIEL Conversations: The Outcomes of MC12 and the Future of the Multilateral Trading System27 June 2022 at 2pm Brussels time Interested in the outcomes of the World Trade Organization MC12? Please join us next Monday on this SIEL Conversation, with present and former officials, negotiators and observers.
Simon Lester 23 Jun 2022 1 min read

Guest Post: Consensus as the Hallmark of the WTO: Time to Change

This is a guest post from law professor Bashar Malkawi: Throughout much of GATT and then WTO history, consensus has been the norm. For example, article XXV (3) and (4) call for one vote per nation and decisions to be taken by majority vote, but in practice consensus was developed
Simon Lester 23 Jun 2022 3 min read

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How Should the U.S. Respond To China's Non-Market Practices?

In an interview last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent talked about the Trump administration's response to China's non-market practices. Part of this response, as he presents it, has been for the U.S. to pursue a specific version of state-led industrial policy as a defensive measure.
20 Oct 2025 5 min read

Guest Post: Too Big To Fail: The EU Steel Industry, Article XXVIII of the GATT 1994 and the EU’s Free Trade Agreements

This is a guest post by trade lawyer Victor Crochet and law professor Weihuan Zhou Steel has long been a contentious topic in international trade, in part because of the numerous jobs it creates and its relevance to downstream industries including those related to national defense. In the European Union
13 Oct 2025 8 min read

Beware the "Securitization" of Trade Policy

In recent years, U.S. trade policy has seen a creeping takeover by "security" concerns. The precise scope of these concerns is unclear, but they appear to cover both the traditional aspects of military-related security as well as the vague and amorphous concept of "economic security."
06 Oct 2025 4 min read

Stephen Miran on Tariffs and National Savings

In a speech earlier this week, Stephen Miran, who had been the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and is now a member of the Federal Reserve Board, made his case for a looser monetary policy. One aspect of his argument was that he thinks national savings will be
24 Sep 2025 4 min read

A GOP Tariff Working Group and Post-Trump U.S. Trade Politics

The Hill reported last week that a handful of pro-trade Republicans in Congress used some leverage during a vote about voting on tariffs – it's complicated, check out the details at the link for more! – to get a Republican working group on tariffs established: And [Tom] McClintock [R-CA] said
21 Sep 2025 4 min read

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