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,

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."

China passed the landmark “Anti-Monopoly Law” on August 30, 2007 after more than a decade’s deliberation. (Landmark anti-monopoly law passed, China Daily/Xinhua; Investors fear over China monopolies law, Financial Times). The law reads “As well as anti-monopoly checks stipulated by this law, foreign mergers with,

Why is it that so many of the good discrimination cases are about products like alcohol and cigarettes?  Here's another one that is in its early stages but might lead to a formal complaint at some point: The [Indonesian] government has warned the United States Trade Representative against

In a recent note, Gary Hufbauer envisages a possible bargain between the United States and China where in exchange of concessions by China about "currency practices and other issues, the United States could declare China a market economy." My impression is that this scenario could very well turn

This seems like a sensible approach to me: US and EU pressure on China to revalue the renminbi create the mistaken impression that there is an unavoidable conflict of interests. A switch by China to a more flexible exchange rate regime, accompanied by a shift to a new nominal anchor,

Many of us in the trade cognoscenti toss about acronyms with abandon.  It can be deeply frustrating to students and others.  But here comes a web-based solution:  http://www.acronymfinder.com/.  Give it a try.  My first try was SPS--not very successful.  TBT did a lot better.  Oh,

Over at the Conglomerate, David Zaring identifies "which American arbitrators are most likely to handle ICSID disputes": Charles Brower is our iron man, with 6 concluded and 6  pending arbitrations under his belt. He is an emeritus White & Case partner. Michael Reisman (Yale, 4 pending)), and Andreas