According to Bloomberg, considering that the situation has likely worsened recently ''because the yuan has dropped 10 percent on a trade-weighted basis after inflation in the past five years",  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke urged recently China to allow  the quasi- fixed exchange rate of its

Jalal Alavi, a frequent commenter on this blog, suggested posting the following: A Survey on Public Opinion The newly released survey of German Marshall Fund of the United States “Perspectives on Trade and Poverty Reduction”   was presented in the WTO today(13.12.2006). GMF has surveyed seven countries (France,

Bloomberg reports: Pakistan plans to challenge European Union trade policy for poor nations through the World Trade Organization, concerned that among India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, it's the only one not given equal advantages. In April 2004, WTO judges said the EU could exempt Latin American nations and

See the USTR report that is the basis for Susan Schwab's recent criticisms of China's trade policy.

The Economist has an excellent article this week about food politics.  What I liked about it was that it brings the technical legal issues from the GMOs and other similar cases into a real world context.  Much of the debate in trade law circles involves government regulation, as well as

In a case about to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, Credit Suisse v. Billing, an issue of conflict between regulatory regimes will be addressed.  The two regimes are the U.S. antitrust laws and the U.S. securities laws.  The type of conflict is that the U.

See the cool post by Roger Alford at Opinio Juris.  It'll make your head spin.

Yesterday I happened to hear a lecture about the "Protection of family property against creditors in the enlightenment era court of chancery". Nothing to do with GMOs, but listening to a learned analysis of late 18th century jurisprudence made me wonder - what would future generations, say, in

In its recent post on  Posner and the Rule of WTO Law,  Simon Lester underlines that the “mere mention of "policy preferences" seems to set people in the WTO on edge. This stems from a  fact long ago underlined by Hudec that WTO  activity intrudes upon domestic regulatory

In an early post on this blog, Joel cited some articles by and about Judge Richard Posner, and noted that while Posner accepts that there are limits, he refuses to accept a clear line between interpretation and policy-making.  This line is, if not the definition of the "rule of