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Trade in Everything: Dental Services

Reuters reports: It was fear of the hefty bill as much as fear of the drill that kept American musician Don Clay away from U.S. dental clinics for 30 years. Shrugging off concerns about hygiene and Mexico 's brutal drug war, thousands of Americans are heading to Ciudad

A "United States of Africa"?

Is a "United States of Africa" possible: Proponents of the so-called "United States of Africa" want to develop a central government, army, and foreign policy. They say a cohesive continent would better compete in the global economy. But with 53 African countries, is it realistic? It&

Trade Talk in Davos

Most of us did not get an invitation to Davos, but YouTube has some video of the trade talk going on over there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7jOIAvsPa8. Thanks to Amy Porges for the pointer.

ASEAN Secretariat Job

The ASEAN Secretariat is looking to hire a "Legal Expert Under the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Project on 'Strengthening Capacity of the ASEAN Secretariat in Regional Economic Integration and Policy Dialogue.'" See here for more.

AD/CVD and Currency Manipulation

Chris Padilla, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, says that using AD/CVD duties to fight currency manipulation is not a good idea: The Chinese currency has received particular legislative attention. I will leave it to my colleagues at the Treasury to discuss currency policy. Instead, I will address

More Gambling Arbitrations

We've already discussed the DSU Article 22.6 Gambling arbitration. Now it looks like we are headed for a GATS Article XXI arbitration: Antigua has asked the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to arbitrate in a dispute over gambling with the United States, its lawyer in the case said

New News on the China Financial News Dispute

As mentioned a couple months ago, some countries had expressed concerns that China was placing restrictions on foreign providers of news-related financial information services. Things seem to be heating up. As reported by the AP: The United States has told China to get serious about loosening restrictions on foreign news

Trade in Everything: Live Cattle and "Pregnant Heifers"

Reader Perry Bechky points me to a NAFTA Chapter 11 ruling from a couple days ago, in which the Tribunal rejected an investment claim related to trade restrictions on certain live cattle coming from Canada into the U.S. The basic finding was that the Canadians had no investment in

Trade in Everything: Japanese Food

AFP reports: Japan launched a campaign Tuesday to certify authentic Japanese food overseas, but insisted it was only promoting its cuisine rather than setting up a "sushi police." The effort is led by a non-governmental group of experts set up in July with the blessing of the agriculture

Welcome to Andrew Lang

Simon and I are delighted to welcome Andrew Lang, of LSE, to our hardy band of bloggers.