I have just been reading the Art 21.3(c) arbitral award in EC – Chicken Classification (WT/DS269/13, 20 February 2006), which, in its robust attitude to EC law, provides an interesting counterpoint to the AB’s more deferential attitude to NAFTA in Soft Drinks. The EC argued that

The Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank has released a study of the Bank's advice on trade.  Part of the executive summary (pp xiv-xv) is worth quoting in full: Bank clients that obtained loans to support trade reform experienced higher economic growth rates in the medium term

I suppose that I am an idealist, as I still find it surprising that Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsay Graham can be taken seriously as they threaten China with a 27.5% tariff on imports unless China revalues the renminbi.  Why doesn't China simply say, well you know,

I have been struggling over a paper on distributive justice and international law, for a conference April 7 at Cornell.  This seems an example of failure of comparative advantage (why should I try to learn philosophy?), but it also occurs to me that the distributive justice issues cannot be answered

I thought this write-up by Jawad Anani in Beirut's Al-Hayat was interesting, giving a view that is external to US politics: http://english.daralhayat.com/business/03-2006/Article-20060316-03ace06f-c0a8-10ed-0008-254d564638e0/story.html The bottom line: "Under these circumstances, "Dubai Ports" put forth many proposals to entrust the

It is with great pleasure that I welcome Peter Van den Bossche, of Maastricht, to our group of contributors.

Uruguay seems to have followed the four West African cotton producers in demanding cash compensation from the U.S. for the reduction in incomes of Uruguayan rice farmers due to U.S. rice subsidies.  The March 10 Inside U.S. Trade reports that the U.S. is considering how to

Hearty welcome to our excellent new bloggers:  Don Regan of Michigan and Francis Snyder of LSE.

As I recall Joost's excavation of the gems in EC-Biotech may not have included the panel's analysis of Art. III:4 of the GATT, National Treatment.  As I understand it, fleshing out the meaning of what the AB said about "treatment no less favorable'

Thank you, Joel, for letting me join the discussion of Mexico – Soft Drinks.  It seems to me that if one simply picks up XX(d) and reads it as a piece of natural language, taking it all together and attending to the illustrative examples, the picture one gets is of