In previous posts and comments on this Blog, it was underlined by many that, on the issue of currency manipulation, international trade law cannot be seen in "clinical isolation" from the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Article XV of GATT 1994  makes this clinical isolation difficult

The WTO has now made the two recent U.S. complaints against China available.  Here they are on WorldTradeLaw.net (the free part), in PDF format: DS362: China - Measures Affecting the Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights DS363: China - Measures Affecting Trading Rights and Distribution Services for Certain Publications

I am happy to let you know that the Academy of International Trade Law will be offered again in Macau this summer. I would greatly appreciate it if you could kindly spread the news among your students. If any of your students are interested, please feel free to have them

There's a new paper posted on SSRN by Stephanie Switzer, a regular commenter on this blog, entitled "International Trade Law and the Environment: Designing a Legal Framework to Curtail the Import of Unsustainably Produced Biofuel."  Here's the abstract: "Discussions on the appropriate international

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