See Julian Ku's post at Opinio Juris about Putin's suggestion that an alternative to the WTO that focused on poor countries should be considered. Of course, this is not the first time that an alternative to the WTO/GATT has been discussed. For a nice account

Several members of the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced the Border Tax Equity Act: A bipartisan quartet of Congressmen today introduced legislation that would levy a border tax on imported goods unless the U.S. Trade Representative negotiates with other countries to end their border taxes on U.

I need two things explained to me.  First, why are all the world leaders in a hurry to have their picture taken with Bono and Geldof, as opposed to say, spending time working out what to do about world problems?  Including Bush, who presumably would just as soon listen to

Under the SCM Agreement, there is no need to demonstrate "adverse effects" for subsidies in the prohibited category and there are shorter than normal time-frames for compliance where these subsidies have been found in violation.  As a result, complaints under the prohibited category are much more attractive to

Andrew Guzman proposes a change to the standard of review for certain SPS cases: This Article proposes that the DSB should apply a more deferential standard of review when evaluating: (1) the level of risk a state is prepared to tolerate; (2) scientific data; and (3) the relationship between the

The week began with Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post taking a forceful position against China's currency policies, in an article entitled "Forget Revaluation. Hit China With Tariffs."  The title makes his position pretty clear, but he elaborated as follows: The American challenge is to slow

At the risk of my posts on this blog turning into Dani Rodrik comments exclusively, I have a comment on a short post he did on globalization and income inequality.  He refers to a Wall Street Journal article called "Globalization's Gains Come with a Price," and

Today's FT reports that there is a resolution of Indonesia's concerns regarding sharing virus samples and access to virus vaccines: The language of the World Health Assembly draft resolution is vague. It says a working group of the WHO, the UN’s health agency, will develop

A Reuters story today is titled, "Blair says coming weeks are make-or-break for WTO."  Blair is quoted as saying: "The reality is that if we don't get ... the headline agreement in the next two to three weeks then we won't do it."

As we discuss standards of review, and Article XVII:2 of the Anti-DUmping Agreement, we often refer to the U.S. administrative law case, Chevron.  The following article seems to suggest that importing an unrefined Chevron into international trade law may exceed Chevron's domestic force. "Chevron'