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Russia's WTO Accession and the U.S. Presidential Election

How would Russia's WTO accession progress under an Obama-Biden administration? Everyone is talking tough about Russia right now in relation to the Georgia situation, but Joe Biden has an actual trade dispute with them: United States Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) today issued the following

Society of International Economic Law on SSRN

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

WTO Rulings in EU Law: More from Bananas

EU law experts will probably have more insights into this then I will, but I thought it worth noting the latest developments in the case in which some European companies claimed compensation under EU law for financial damages arising from the U.S. sanctions in the EC - Bananas case. Reuters

State Tax Incentives on the Increase

I've complained before about the use of government tax breaks to lure investment. A new FT article indicates that such measures are on the increase among U.S. states (via Trade Diversion): Tennessee, for instance, has just disclosed that it agreed to give German carmaker Volkswagen $577m in

Esserman and Howse Rethink the WTO

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

Free Trade Unilateralism from Ron Paul

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

WHO is the culprit of the DDA negotiation breakdown?

In the latest round of the finger-pointing game since the breakdown of the trade talks in Geneva, the WHO emerged as the winner. According to a recent report in BNA's International Trade Daily, the WHO's Commission on Social Determinants of Health blamed trade liberalization for

The Role of Precedent: What the WTO Members Think (Part 2)

A while back, I mentioned a discussion among the WTO Members, at a DSB meeting, on the role of precedent in WTO dispute settlement. This discussion was in the context of the U.S. - Stainless Steel (Mexico) dispute, where the AB made some statements that seemed to indicate a fairly

GSP and Climate Change

In the latest issue of the JIEL, Michael McKenzie discusses the interaction of climate change and the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). He notes two ways that preferences could help fight climate change: The first way that preferential tariff treatment under a GSP scheme could be tied to the issue

Gender Discrimination through Tariffs

I'm a bit late to this, but it's an interesting case and I thought I should start following it. As an old NY Times article explains, there are often tariff differences in the U.S. tariff schedule between men's and women's versions