I have often heard it said that non-discrimination is a fundamental principle of the WTO.  Yet I have never believed that for a moment.  The WTO is enamored with discrimination.   This can be seen in the way that the WTO encourages governments to discriminate between countries with antidumping duties

The WTO in Difficult Times: New Challenges and New Prospects Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the International Conference on "The WTO in Difficult Times: New Challenges and New Prospects", co-hosted by SMU School of Law and the Asian

In cooperation with the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) is pleased to announce the SIEL Inaugural Conference Online Proceedings. These proceedings are available to all users at no charge and contain abstracts of the meeting's papers with links to the full text

At Forbes.com, Sue Esserman and Rob Howse rethink the WTO.  One of their points is the following: Issues of global equity are simultaneously becoming more challenging; the WTO cannot afford to ignore the question of who gains and who loses and the fairness of those consequences. In collaboration with

Ron Paul sets out his views on free trade in an interview with CFR: How would you approach globalization and trade differently from a McCain administration or the current Bush administration would? [Ron Paul:] I consider myself the strongest advocate of free trade. I don't want any tariffs