Recent news reports indicate that the U.S. has lost before the compliance panel in the Cotton dispute.  I always found the planting restrictions on fruits and vegetables that became an issue in the case very confusing from a policy perspective (why are we discouraging fruits and vegetables?), but this

My feeling has always been that many alleged trade and the environment conflicts are overblown.  But here's a conflict that seems real and problematic: The European Biodiesel Board (EBB) said it plans to submit antidumping trade complaints to the European Union and the World Trade Organization against U.

Like many persons, my pronostic was that the 2007 Nobel price in Economics would go to Jagdish Bhagwati. My intuition was that this would have been a way of helping the Doha Round in the same way that the Al Gore Nobel prize is a way of helping Kyoto. Following

National Taiwan University's Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy is calling for papers for its March 2008 issue. Submission deadline is November 20, 2007.  More information here:  http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/center/wto/05publications.asp?tb_index=25

Check out Jon Stewart on free trade and globalization (you have to wait through a short commercial).

The Antigua legal team has posted some new documents related to the Article 22.6 arbitration in the Gambling dispute, including a written submission which, among other things, responds to some of the U.S. arguments.  One important aspect of the parties' disagreement is the following.  In arguing for

The state of the Doha Round is not good.  Consider the following. From the U.S.: "U.S. officials lashed out at India, Brazil and other large developing nations, saying that their proposal to exempt a broad range of industrial goods from tariff cuts could blow up continuing global

A recent poll suggested that Republican voters are less enthusiastic about free trade than in the past: By a nearly two-to-one margin, Republican voters believe free trade is bad for the U.S. economy, a shift in opinion that mirrors Democratic views and suggests trade deals could face high hurdles