The draft of the first Chinese Anti-Monopoly (AM) Law has recently been submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) where the draft will be reviewed and commented several times before the final enactment. The current Chinese anti-competition (anti-trust) regime is not comprehensive

Following is the text of a message that I just received from the American Law Institute.  This is an excellent project, and Petros Mavroidis and Henrik Horn are to be congratulated, along with the ALI, for undertaking it. We wish to inform you that the case analyses thus far resulting

The WTO Director-General has recently named the panel in the China Auto Parts case.  It appears to be an excellent panel.  It will be chaired by Julio Lacarte, a former Appellate Body member and veteran of at least six GATT or WTO panels.  The other two panelists are Ujal

Charles Schumer and Michael Bloomberg, in addition to their other many duties, have prepared a report on the future of New York as a financial center.  One of the main thrusts of the report is an attack on the Sarbanes Oxley law, legislated in 2002 as a political response to

There's a nice NY Times profile of Dani Rodrik, highlighting the need for social insurance to promote political support for free trade, at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/business/worldbusiness/30trade.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 (login required). Rodrik, Jacob Hacker and others are quoted

Here's a link to an article, in a publication called Engineering News, about recent appointee AB David Unterhalter.  Among other things, he discussed his goals as an AB Member: But what are his personal ambitions arising from the WTO appointment? “What I would hope, personally, to have achieved

Two recent articles discuss the legal and political aspects of a U.S. - Taiwan FTA, including the role of China and East Asia generally. Claude Barfield of AEI writes: Turning to the political and strategic background to the proposal for a US-Taiwan FTA, it should first be acknowledged that

According to Australian Trade Minister Warren Truss.  He also said: ... if the Doha round negotiations could not be revived, then differences would move to international courts in coming months. "The lawyers will have a field day," Truss told Reuters in an interview before traveling to Davos, Switzerland. "

There is an interesting ranking of the WTO-citizenship of  member states available from the WTO summer program at the HEI . Guess who's #1? (hint: not Singapore or HK, the usual suspects for die-hard free traders). Several CIS states and middle-eastern states score very high in