One of the latest areas of contention in the Doha round is India's concern that its citizens cannot obtain enough U.S. visas to provide GATS authorized services in the U.S.  See Minister Kamal Nath's statement. India has raised the issue of visas in negotiations,

The full text of the Section 301 currency petition is available here.  The  legal arguments start here.  Here are some excerpts (based on an OCR conversion of a scanned document -- hopefully the text came through OK, but there may be occasional typos): SCM Agreement Article 1/3.1(a)

Forty-two members of Congress have submitted a Section 301 petition in relation to Chinese and Japanese currency valuation.  According to the press release: The petition, filed under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, calls on the United States Trade Representative to take strong action to end China’s

See Claude Barfield's article explaining the conflicting spins being put on the bipartisan trade compromise on FTAs and labor.

Lorand Bartels has a draft paper in which he argues that the EU's new GSP+ arrangement is not consistent with WTO rules.  He explains: Under this arrangement, additional tariff preferences (normally duty free treatment), were made available to developing countries committing to ratify and implement a list of

See the nice post by Peter Spiro at Opinio Juris.

Just two quick points related to Joel's earlier posts about the "new" U.S. approach to trade policy. First, according to the USTR fact sheets on labor and the environment, there is to be a requirement that any alleged labor/environment violations must "affect"

The USTR has now published a fact sheet providing a bit more detail on the new deal between the administraiton and congress (hat tip to Julian Ku at Opinio Juris).  The idea is to make the 5 core principles subject to the same dispute settlement as commercial obligations, but (i)

There is an interesting article in the IHT recently on the possibility of the WTO moving its headquarters in protest of the unattractive offer made by the Swiss government to expand its building. Both HK and Singapore, two Members with the most liberalized trade regimes, were rumored to be among

News reports today are filled with stories of the deal between democrats and republicans regarding trade and labor/environment.  One particularly detailed story is here.  According to the report, ranking republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee McCreary says the deal won't be applicable to WTO