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Zoellick on Trade Politics

My sense is that Bob Zoellick is one of the most well-respected trade people around, so I thought his comments here were worth noting: Whoever wins the U.S. presidency would probably back a global trade pact if a deal can be reached this year, despite Democratic candidates'

Mattoo and Subramanian on WTO Currency Rules

Joel recently mentioned a new paper by Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian entitled "Currency Undervaluation and Sovereign Wealth Funds: A New Role for the World Trade Organization." I had been planning for a while to do a short post on it, but was distracted by other things. What

More on Video Game Subsidies

As mentioned a while back, UK video game makers are complaining about Canadian government subsidies designed to encourage producers to locate there: Following Eidos' decision to move its production services from London to Montreal, UK trade association Tiga has warned the government that it must create a fair competitive

Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) Membership and Conference Registrations Now Open

<o:p></o:p> Registration for the Inaugural Conference of the Society of International Economic Law is now open at www.sielnet.org. The conference will be held on 15-17th July at the Centre on Trade and Economic Integration at the Graduate Institute of International

Another Gambling Settlement

As reported by a poker web site: According to the Tico Time in Costa Rica, the United States and Costa Rica have come to a settlement agreement in regards to the United States pulling out of its World Trade Organization agreement involving online gambling. As compensation for not allowing online

trade/environment/federalism

I've been away from the blog for some time, so I hope I haven't missed somebody else writing about this. It was interesting to note the US Environmental Protection Agency's decision not to allow the California waiver from the Clean Air Act, allowing CA

Some Questions about Labor/Environment Provisions in Trade Agreements

This Presidential campaign has made it very clear that there are a number of people (mostly Democrats, I would guess), including the two remaining Democratic Presidential candidates, whose support for trade agreements is conditional on having enforceable labor and environmental rules as part of these agreements. This view raises a

Missouri’s Tax Break for American-Made Hybrid Cars

It is true that the United States has come late to environmentalism (and still has a ways to go). Nonetheless, even in the “heartland” we are starting to see the beginning of a Green Revolution. But, with these positive moves there is always the danger of populist protectionism rearing its

The WTO and Everything: Sovereign Wealth Funds and Exchange Rates

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian have a new paper proposing WTO involvement in these issues (greater involvement in the case of exchange rates). Here is the synopsis: Two aspects of global imbalances—undervalued exchange rates and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)—require a multilateral response. For reasons of inadequate leverage and

Classification of Developing Countries at the WTO

A reader of this blog is doing research on the classification of developing countries at the WTO, and asked me to pose the following question: Does anyone have any suggestions for resources that discuss the classification of WTO Members as developed, developing, or least-developed? Any thoughts on this can