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China's AB Appointment and Judicial Impartiality

Over at OpinioJuris, Roger Alford voices some concerns about the willingness of a Chinese AB Member to rule against China. AB Member have so far had a very good record of impartiality, with EC and US members regularly contributing to reports ruling to the detriment of their home state. Would

Korea DRAMs and the Interpretation of "Allowing": The Source of the Appellate Body's Mistake.

The interpretation of the term "allowing" in Article 12.9 of the SCM by the AB in Korea DRAMs is based on a decisive mistake. It feigns to read the word "allowing" as a term which concerns the investigative authorities and that these are the ones

The Real World Impact of WTO Rulings

Yesterday, the Appellate Body upheld many of the violations found in an earlier panel report relating to Japan's countervailing duties on Korean DRAMS. Today, the markets reacted: Seoul shares gained more than 2 percent on Thursday, as local institutional investors chased beaten-down blue chips and chip maker Hynix

Some Upcoming Trade Events in Geneva

From Jalal Alavi, three upcoming trade events in Geneva: * World Trade Report 2007 Tuesday, 4 December 2007 11.30 am WTO Headquarters – Centre William Rappard Conference Room II Programme Chair: Keith Rockwell, Director Information and Media Relations 11.30 -11.45 Introductory Remarks Director-General, Pascal Lamy 11.45 -12.30

From Last Night's Republican Debate

Some trade questions from last night's Republican Presidential debate: On agriculture subsidies: Ted Faturos: Hi, I'm Ted Faturos from Manhattan Beach, California. Mmmmmm, nothing says delicious like cheap corn subsidized by the American taxpayer. For a lot of Americans, however, a bitter taste is left in

Coming Soon: The Brazil - Tyres AB Report

On December 3, the Appellate Body is scheduled to issue the Brazil - Tyres report. There will be a lot of things said about GATT Article XX, all of which should be interesting and informative. In addition, though, there is a slight posssiblity that the AB will clarify GATT Article

Categories

I've added categories to the blog (see previous post for an example). It would be too much to go back and classify all the previous posts (510 of them) in particular categories, but hopefully this will be useful going forward.

Environmental Dumping?

This sounds like something along the lines of what Joseph Stiglitz had in mind: [The European Parliament invites the European Commission] to consider whether it would be appropriate to evaluate the rules on trade defence measures, such as the rules on anti-dumping or subsidies, under the WTO aegis, with a

Ben Muse: New Blog Location

Ben Muse is moving his trade posts to a new blog, called "The Custom-House." He explains here; the new blog is here.

Antigua Did It. Why Not Fiji?

In the Gambling case, Antigua has done a good job of demonstrating that a small country can have some success in bringing a WTO complaint. Maybe Fiji will follow their example: The chairman of Fiji’s Kava Council Ratu Josateki Nawalowalo, says he will continue to pursue a meeting with