Shameless self-promotion, yes.  Here is my recent podcast from the Fletcher School.  The subjects are Doha and migration.

Interesting new paper from Bagwell and Staiger: "What Do Trade Negotiators Negotiate About? Empirical Evidence from the World Trade Organization" Full Text: http://ssrn.com/abstract=948189 ABSTRACT: What do trade negotiators negotiate about? There are two distinct theoretical approaches in the economics literature that offer an answer

Chad Bown has an interesting piece in the Washington Post's "Think Tank Town".  Bown argues that KORUS is not about free trade, but about discrimination: "This discrimination is apparent when you examine how the free trade agreement proposes to grant Korean automotive and parts manufactures

See here. The lead line: "The president of the World Bank has one asset: his credibility. The Bank’s capacity to make a difference lies not in its money and ideas but in its ability to be the world’s voice for development. This includes, as Paul Wolfowitz, the

I was puzzled recently by an affirmation in a newspaper that a complainant country has some 90 percent chances of winning its case at the WTO. Since no domestic legal system has such a tendency, I tried to see if this figure could be confirmed. Unfortunately, in their interesting new

Doug Irwin has a nice encomium to GATT in today's WSJ.  Here are the last few paragraphs: Over its 60-year history, the GATT has had many shortcomings. Agricultural trade has largely eluded liberalization. The current spread of preferential trade arrangements, in the form of bilateral and regional so-called

The US has indicated that two cases on TRIPS and distribution rights will be brought against China. Here are my two cents on the two cases: 1st case: According to TRIPS Article 61, Members must provide remedies for IPR violation, which shall include imprisonment and/or monetary fines sufficient to

In June 2003, WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi organized a Consultative Board of eight eminent persons to study institutional challenges facing the WTO and to consider how best to meet those challenges. The resulting report generated a flurry of academic commentary (see here and here); whether it will have a substantial

There have been a lot of news reports regarding the decision by the Department of Commerce to change gears and apply countervailing duties to non-market economies like China (on certain paper imports right now, but possibly many new products in the future).  There are a number of specific legal issues