Bloomberg reports that Barack Obama will be getting trade policy advice from Dan Tarullo of Georgetown: The tough task of helping to develop a trade policy that avoids overt protectionism may fall to [Daniel] Tarullo, a 54-year-old trade expert. Tarullo ``escapes easy labeling,'' said former Clinton chief of

Brazil has issued a compulsory license for the medicine Efavirenz, an important anti-retroviral.  See the story here.  Brazil had negotiated with Merck for a couple of years, and failed to reach agreement on price.  Apparently, Brazil would have been satisfied with the same price charged in Thailand, but Merck felt

So far, Dani Rodrik's blog has been extremely interesting.  In a post today, he says that the issue of "whether we should increase trade restrictions or lower them" is part of the "old debate," and then suggests that today's questions are different:

From Peggy McGuinness: International Law Weekend 2007 Towards a New Vision of International Law Call for Panel Proposals The post-9/11 era has been one of great contestation for international law.  Scholars and practitioners debate basic questions about the content and nature of public international law and how the political

Well, I spent the afternoon at a conference at Harvard today, where Jagdish Bhagwati was to debate Alan Blinder about Offshoring/Outsourcing. Actually, their biggest disagreement was about the name of the phenomenon. Blinder uses offshoring to refer to country effects, as opposed to firm effects, whereas Bhagwati just uses

Dani Rodrik has entered the blogosphere.  In one of his first posts, he questions whether free trade leads to lower prices.  At the risk of getting into issues that I don't know as much about as I wish I did, I'm going to offer a criticism

According to a recent announcement from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and WorldPublicOpinion.org, publics think globalization is helpful, but worry about the effects on labor and the environment: Majorities around the world believe economic globalization and international trade benefit national economies, companies, and consumers.  But many think trade

There's little question that the 2008 U.S. Presidential election will have a significant impact on future U.S. trade policy and bilateral/multilateral trade negotiations in general.  Here's what the three leading Democratic candidates (listed alphabetically, to avoid any suggestion of favoritism) have had to