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
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
Welcome to Andrew Lang
Simon and I are delighted to welcome Andrew Lang, of LSE, to our hardy band of bloggers.
Principles of International Environmental Law
In paragraph 123 of its Hormones decision, the Appellate Body made the following statement:
The precautionary principle is regarded by some as having crystallized into a general principle of customary international environmental law. Whether it has been widely accepted as a principle of general or customary international law appears less
Harmonizing Transfer Pricing: Trade and Tax
Inconsistency between valuation for trade and tax purposes, and inconsistency in transfer pricing rules, has apparently risen to the top of the global agenda:
Tax Notes International, Forthcoming
Boston University School of Law Working Paper No. 07-29
RICHARD THOMPSON AINSWORTH, Boston University - School of Law
Email: vatprof@bu.edu