On February 14, 2006 the USTR released a comprehensive review of the U.S.-China trade relation in a report titled “U.S.-China Trade Relations: Entering a New Phase of Greater Accountability and Enforcement.” (http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Document_Library/Reports_Publications/2006/asset_upload_file921_8938.pdf)

Ineresting story in yesterday's NEW YORK TIMES (p. A6). Bristol-Myers is to allow the newest and most powerful AIDS drug (atanazavir - a second line treatment for those who have developed resistance to their first anti-viral cocktails) to be licensed to generic drug makers in India and

Trade and Environment in the European Court Over the last couple of years the ECJ has issued some interesting judgments on trade and environment. The most recent - Case C-320/03 of 25th November 2005 Commission v. Austria - concerns an Austrian measure to prohibit lorries of more than 7.5

With the excellent addition of Tomer Broude and Sungjoon Cho, we now have a large enough group to keep things interesting.  I look forward to their stimulating posts.

WTO Director General Pascal Lamy is doing an on-line chat with the global public on February 21.  It's easy to be cyncial about such gestures--the "digital divide," the limits of the medium for serious deliberation, the self-selectivity of participants, etc., but let'

Joel, our leader, has indicated that it is okay to use the blog for self-promotion (well, those weren't exactly his words) but anyhow  I thought I would mention that a new edition of my treatise with Michael Trebilcock, The Regulation of International Trade, was published in the

Our own Petros Mavroidis, with Henrik Horn, has created data (well, not really created, so much as gathered).  It is available from the World Bank, which sponsored the research, at www.worldbank.org/trade/wtodisputes.  The manual describes the data as follows "[A] data set covering various aspects of

I am very glad to welcome Bill Davey to the group of contributors.  I'll have to slow down additions, or switch to chronological order--otherwise my name may slip down below visibility on the first screen.

This from today's Wall St. Journal "Washington Wire" Russia has been trying to get into the [WTO] for more than a  decade, but the U.S. won't give its approval unless Moscow allows foreign banks, insurers and other financial institutions to open branches. Right

It is with great pleasure that I welcome Paul Stephan of University of Virginia to the blog.