There is a panel on trade at Davos, among 229 panels.  But there is also a panel on "The Scent of Success," "Classic Clarets," and "Reveal Your True Colours."  My personal favorite, from a very quick scan:  "Brands:  Today's Gods."

The European Union, Australia, Argentina and Brazil have joined Canada in a complaint against the United States over allegedly illegal  subsidies to American corn growers. Although corn is clearly an agricultural product, it is interesting to note the following comment by Clodoaldo Hugueney, Brazilian ambassador to the WTO: "This

For those who oppose the Iraq war, there is some small consolation if you also oppose farm subsidies: US Agriculture Committee head Tom Harkin says farm subsidies are likely to be reduced, because the Iraq war is becoming a "black hole" in the US Budget. Mr Harkin says

In an op-ed published in the WSJ (here's a version re-published on another site: http://www.truthabouttrade.org/article.asp?id=6820 ), former USTR Robert Zoellick has called for a new trade initiative in the Americas: This year President Bush and the Democratic-led Congress should

For the few of you who are not regular readers of the Durham, North Carolina based "News & Observer" newspaper, here is a link to an op-ed that my Duke Law colleague Barak Richman and I just wrote on Leonardo DiCaprio's new movie "Blood

For those who will be in Brussels on January 23, there is an interesting seminar entitled, "Are developing countries deterred from using the WTO dispute settlement mechanism?"  Here is a link with more info and here is a brief description: The dispute settlement mechanism (DSM) is the backbone

Chavez is planning on causing Venezuela to nationalize all energy production assets.  See the CNN story.  See Chris Borgen's take at opinio juris.  There'll be a lot to fight about with respect to compensation. As we hav epointed out earlier, Venezuela does not have a BIT

See Peter Spiro's story on Opinio Juris about the big retailers' (Walmart, Tesco, etc.) Global Social Compliance Program.  I had not heard of this one.  It is interesting that the retailers would join together to set standards for their suppliers.  Is it intended to take the wind

Some optimism from a US administration figure that the increasing attractiveness of agro-based fuels will bring progress in Doha. Of course this over-simplifies the issue, and the catches are many. I could've posted this as a trade law "brain-teaser", but see this interesting