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So What Does the U.S.-EU Gambling Settlement Say?

Writer Ed Brayton tried to find out, to no avail: I immediately filed a Freedom of Information Act request for a copy of the agreement and, predictably, the USTR is denying that request. And just in case you thought this administration had hit rock bottom on making dishonest and mendacious

Trade in Everything: Orchestral Manoeuvres in North Korea

From the AP: Her mother's town was briefly occupied by North Korea . Her father survived the communists during the Korean War by hiding in the mountains. "It just kind of feels that the stuff that happened in the past or what's going on there makes

Free Trade and War

Over at IntLawGrrls, Marjorie Florestal has a three part series of posts asking: Can Free Trade End War? My short answer would be that free trade is more likely to contribute to peace than are the alternatives. However, it's probably too complicated a question for a short answer

Could a WTO Panel Reject the Appellate Body's Rulings?

Despite the well-established AB case law invalidating zeroing, a recent panel in U.S. – Stainless Steel explicitly rejected the AB’s established anti-zeroing position, in particular that expressed in U.S. – Zeroing (EC) and U.S. – Zeroing (Japan), both of which addressed the same issue as the panel faced, i.

The Gambling Dispute: Is Investment Arbitration An Option?

A law firm representing some gambling interests thinks it might be: protections contained in the US IIAs, comprising 40 Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and 11 Free Trade Agreements (FTA’s), may be relied upon by foreign investors seeking to establish a gaming business in the US under the “commercial presence”

Trade and Health Care

Over at Eyes on Trade, Todd Tucker says: "a move to universal health care could be challenged as a limitation on market access for health insurance companies." Upon reading this, my first thought was to look at the relevant part of the U.S. GATS Schedule to see

Fragmentation Can of Worms

I thought it might be interesting if we try to develop an inventory of circumstances in which WTO law conflicts with other international law, in the narrow meaning of "conflict". That is, where are there specific circumstances in which an obligation of WTO law requires or prohibits an

How Sweet It Is

Sugar is fairly big down here in Palm Beach County. My local paper just ran a story on the recent lobbying efforts to moderate the effect of free trade in sugar between the U.S. and Mexico pursuant to NAFTA, by putting up various new trade barriers. The article notes

Is Obama Better Than Clinton On Free Trade?

Here's an argument from Daniel Koffler that he is: Whereas Clinton has recently taken to pulling protectionist stunts and rethinking the fundamental theoretical soundness of free trade, and Edwards is behaving like the love child of Huey Long and Pat Buchanan, Obama instinctively supports free trade and grasps

Airbus vs. Boeing: In the Courts and In the Market

The Airbus-Boeing WTO dispute is plodding along. It's fine with me if the panels take their time. I'm not sure I'll ever be quite ready to digest the monstrous panel reports that are likely to come out of this dispute. In the meantime, Airbus