Three reasons why a WTO Agreement on Investment Facilitation for Development is important by Karl P. Sauvant* After several years of preparatory discussions, negotiations on an Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) Agreement were formally launched in September 2020. They are open-ended plurilateral negotiations, but they aim at a multilaterally applied

Last week, the U.S. International Trade Commission released its report on Distributional Effects of Trade and Trade Policy on U.S. Workers (Inv. No. 332-587). The report had been requested by USTR, as follows: under authority delegated by the President to the United States Trade Representative and pursuant to

This is a guest post from Mariana de Andrade, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Milano-Biccoca and international sanctions and export control consultant for Studio Legal Padovan (Milan, Italy). The views expressed in this contribution are exclusively those of the author. In December 2021, the European Commission submitted a

The U.S. Commerce Department recently made a decision to classify Russia as a non-market economy, after last year finding that it was a market economy. I have posted the executive summary of the Commerce memo below (the full memo is 101 pages!). When reading through the Commerce reasoning, it

Next week, the 2022 ANZSIL International Economic Law Interest Group Workshop will be held via Zoom. The full program is here. You can register to attend here. Check the times carefully. It runs from 18 November 2022 at 9am (AEDT)/11am (NZ time) to 2:30pm (AEDT)/4:30pm (NZ

This is from the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore: The Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore cordially invites you to attend a virtual book launch and conference under the theme “ASEAN and the Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Global Challenges and