There is an interesting webcasting on the WTO website (WTO Forum), featuring a brief, yet well-pointed, debate on the merits and demerits of regional trading agreements (RTAs) between Jagdish Bhagwati (an international trade guru, Columbia University Professor) and Gary Hufbauer (a well-known trade commentator at the Peterson Institute). Prof. Bhagwati

It sounds like a Star Trek movie, but it's actually from a BusinessWeek debate sub-titled "The U.S. should heed the wrath of the World Trade Organization by making betting games legal on the Web. Pro or con?" For the "pro" side was Martin

An interesting, and timely, conference on trade regionalism is taking place in Geneva. It is co-organized by the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and the WTO Secretariat. Here is the progam with papers. http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/region_e/conference_sept07_e.htm  And, here is

When there are accusations of "dumping" in foreign markets as a result of agricultural subsidies, it is usually the U.S. and EU and other rich countries that are accused of wrongdoing.  So I thought it was interesting to see that India was being accused of the same

There's a new IEL journal starting up:  The Indian Journal of International Economic Law.  It's part of the National Law School of India.  Here is its call for papers: Indian Journal of International Economic Law invites submission of articles and case-notes dealing with current topics in

It has been a slow year for the Appellate Body.  Up until last week, there had been just two notices of appeal filed, and those were back in January and February.  But now they finally have something to do, as two appeals were filed in the past week.  First came

A few weeks ago, I quoted Ha-Joon Chang of the University of Cambridge writing the following in the Independent: Both the history of rich countries and the recent records of developing countries point to the same conclusion. Economic development requires tariffs, regulation of foreign investment, permissive intellectual property laws, and

Ben Muse asks, "How is the U.S. doing in WTO litigation?", and concludes: "On balance, the U.S. seems to be doing fairly well."