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Guest Post: Full carbon pricing, average carbon intensity and the Global Steel and Aluminium Arrangement: in conversation with Bixuan Xu and Aaron Cosbey

This is a guest post by Dr Giulia Claudia Leonelli of Birkbeck College, University of London In June 2022, the Clean Competition Act was introduced in the US Senate. Bixuan Xu has developed an insightful comparison of the Whitehouse Bill and the EU proposal for a carbon border adjustment mechanism
Simon Lester 03 Jul 2022 6 min read

Guest Post: Response to Bixuan Wu on EU's CBAM

This is a response by Aaron Cosbey to the July 1, 2022 IELP Blog Guest Post by Bixuan Wu: The EU’s CBAM The author concludes that the EU’s CBAM is primarily about pressuring other countries into raising domestic carbon prices. This is not so. It’s primarily aimed
Simon Lester 03 Jul 2022 2 min read

Guest Post: To penalize low carbon price or high carbon intensity? – A comparison of the EU’s CBAM and the U.S. Clean Competition Act

This is a guest post from trade lawyer Bixuan Wu of the Hiways law firm: The EU’s CBAM On June 22, the European Parliament adopted its “first reading” position on the regulation establishing a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). After the vote, rapporteur Mohammed Chahim said the CBAM would
Simon Lester 01 Jul 2022 7 min read

Call for Submissions: Trade, Law and Development

This is from the Managing Editor of Trade, Law and Development: Trade, Law and Development is a student-edited journal published by the National Law University, Jodhpur. The Journal has been consistently ranked as the best law journal in India across all fields and the 10th best journal in the field
Inu Manak 30 Jun 2022 1 min read

Katherine Tai on Incompatible Economic Systems

Last week during a Senate subcommittee hearing, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai responded to a question from Senator Braun with the following discussion of trade between market-oriented and non-market-oriented economies: But that's not the sum total of the challenge that we have, and I think that in
Simon Lester 26 Jun 2022 6 min read

Russian Aggression on Ukraine from the International Economic Law Perspective – Call for Papers

This is from Professor Marcin Menkes: The Warsaw School of Economics and the University of Szeged, ELKH Center for Social Sciences, are organizing the ESIL-supported conference on the timely topic: “Russian Aggression on Ukraine from the International Economic Law Perspective“. The conference will take place online in a webinar format
Simon Lester 23 Jun 2022 1 min read

SIEL Conversations: The Outcomes of MC12 and the Future of the Multilateral Trading System

From the SIEL: SIEL Conversations: The Outcomes of MC12 and the Future of the Multilateral Trading System27 June 2022 at 2pm Brussels time Interested in the outcomes of the World Trade Organization MC12? Please join us next Monday on this SIEL Conversation, with present and former officials, negotiators and observers.
Simon Lester 23 Jun 2022 1 min read

Guest Post: Consensus as the Hallmark of the WTO: Time to Change

This is a guest post from law professor Bashar Malkawi: Throughout much of GATT and then WTO history, consensus has been the norm. For example, article XXV (3) and (4) call for one vote per nation and decisions to be taken by majority vote, but in practice consensus was developed
Simon Lester 23 Jun 2022 3 min read

BIICL Border Carbon Adjustment and MC12 Events

BIICL has sent information on two upcoming events: 22nd BIICL Annual WTO Conference: Climate Change: Border Carbon Adjustment Approaches and the WTO (July 15) Why are Border Carbon Adjustment (BCA) Approaches being considered by an increasing number of countries? What are the factors to be accounted for to design a
Simon Lester 23 Jun 2022 2 min read

Non-Violation Arguments in the USMCA Auto Rules of Origin Dispute

In the ongoing USMCA dispute on United States - Automotive Rules of Origin (USA-MEX-CDA-2022-31-01), in addition to their arguments that the U.S. unilateral interpretation of the USMCA Rules of Origin provisions for passenger vehicles and light trucks violates USMCA rules, Mexico and Canada have made a non-violation nullification or
Simon Lester 13 Jun 2022 12 min read

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Guest Post: Are President Trump’s New Section 122 Tariffs Legal?

This is a guest post from Bryan Riley and Joe Bishop-Henchman. Bryan is Director of the Free Trade Initiative at the National Taxpayers Union; Joe is Executive Vice President at the National Taxpayers Union Foundation President Trump has issued new 10% tariffs, shortly after raised to 15%, based on Section
24 Feb 2026 6 min read

Section 122 as a (Partial) Replacement for the IEEPA Tariffs

Apparently, this is the era of dusting off old international economic policy statutes and figuring out what they mean and how they work. After the Supreme Court's ruling today in Learning Resources, holding that "IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs," we are now
20 Feb 2026 5 min read

Comparing the Forced Labor Provisions in the New U.S. Trade Deals

Continuing my multi-part blog posting series on comparing provisions in the Trump administration trade agreements, let's look now at the provisions that try to induce U.S. trading partners to take action against imports made with forced labor.
20 Feb 2026 4 min read

AOC on Foreign Policy and Trade Policy

AOC spoke on a couple panels last week at the Munich Security Conference and also spoke at the Technische Universität Berlin, and this European trip was widely seen as a move to establish some foreign policy credentials for a presidential run.
17 Feb 2026 12 min read

Comparing the Enforcement Provisions in the New U.S. Trade Deals

Building on the comparison of trade agreement provisions in my last post, let's take a look at the "enforcement" provisions of the six agreements for which the legal texts have been published.
11 Feb 2026 4 min read

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