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Fisheries Subsidies in the New Draft SCM: At Last a Recognition of the Concept of Environmentally Harmful Subsidies (EHS)?

I have just had a look at the new draft Annex VIII of the SCM on fisheries subsidies. There is a lot to say on this Annex but there was a point that I impatiently wanted to check, namely the recognition or not for the first time of the concept

One More Question from the Republican Debate

One more trade related question from the CNN/YouTube Republican debate: YouTube question: Good evening, candidates. This is (inaudible) from Arlington, Texas, and this question is for Ron Paul. I've met a lot of your supporters online, but I've noticed that a good number of them

The Zeroing Negotiations

From the draft consolidated texts on anti-dumping and subsidies and countervailing measures circulated by the WTO today, there's this new provision that appears to govern zeroing: 2.4.3 When the authorities aggregate the results of multiple comparisons in order to establish the existence or extent of a

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.