The World Bank has just published a new report on doing business in 175 countries, examining regulation and regulatory reform in a number of areas.  The central concern of the report is cost-benefit analysis of regulation:  what types of regulation that seem to provide little benefit are most costly?

This from Daniel Drezner's blog: . . . devoted fans of danieldrezner.com can click here to read my just-released book from the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Trade Strategy: Free Versus Fair . From the press release: While policymakers agree that promoting trade expansion serves U.S. national interests,

Over at Opinio Juris, Roger Alford has a post criticizing the Appellate Body's findings on zeroing in the U.S. - Zeroing (DS294) case.  He also has an article on the subject, elaborating on his points in the post.  I haven't had a chance to read the

Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Fed, has made his views on globalization known in a well publicized speech. Globalization is nothing new, it is the way of the world, free trade is wonderful, a cross between liberty and gravity. This is all well rehearsed and unsurprising. Only towards the end,

Dr. Fred Bergsten, Director of the Institute for International Economics, wrote in Financial Times that a grand Asia-Pacific regional bloc, i.e., "Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific Region (FTAAP)," should be launched as a "Plan B" in the face of the moribund Doha

The conventional wisdom in the GATT days was that complainants requested consultations under Article XXII when they wanted to attract third parties and negotiate, but under Article XXIII:1 when they did not want third parties intervening and didn't especially want to negotiate.  These days, it appears that

A new journal, The Africa International Trade Review, has put out a call for papers on its site: http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm2/africa_international_trade_review.html The journal describes itself as: "This multi-disciplinary journal, a first in Africa, forms part of the

This from the editors of the Yale Journal of International Law:I am writing on behalf of the Yale Journal of International Law to let you know that we have just issued our call for papers for our annual conference, which will take place this coming March. This year’s

From Sergey Ripinsky of the British Institute of International and Comparative LawI came across the rule in the US legislation (adopted in 1971), which requires to buy 80% of all narcotic raw materials from two countries - India and Turkey - and the remaining 20% from five other countries (the so-called