Thanks to Bryce Baschuk of Bloomberg, who posted the documents on Twitter, we have a letter written by Ukraine to the Chair of the WTO General Council regarding cutting of trade with Russia, and a letter Russia wrote in response. It's the trade response of other countries to

U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) have introduced the No Most Favored Nation Trading with Russia Act "to revoke Russia’s most-favored-nation status." The full text is here (and here). It is mostly identical to the Blumenauer/Doggett bill discussed here, so no need

Legislating and regulating seems much easier in parliamentary systems. As the U.S. starts considering the competing Russia MFN withdrawal bills I've been discussing the past couple of days, Canada just went ahead and withdrew the MFN status of Russia and Belarus. This is what Deputy Prime Minister

Ukraine has sent a letter to the Chairman of the WTO's General Council, in which it says it will "impose a complete economic embargo and no longer apply the WTO agreements in its relations with the Russian Federation": On 24 February 2022 the Russian Federation committed

Jim Bacchus, writing in the WSJ, is pushing for expulsion: No specific WTO provision relates to expelling a member. Expulsion would be possible under Article X of the WTO agreement, however, if two-thirds of the WTO’s current 164 members vote to alter the agreement. If Russia were to refuse

Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) has introduced the No Most Favored Nation Trading with Russia Act. According to the press release, the bill "revokes Russia’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status and provides the president the power to raise tariffs on a host of Russian products.

Following up on Senator Portman's speech discussed here, Senators Portman and Cardin have introduced bipartisan legislation "to revoke free trade privileges from Russia and other countries that invade sovereign nations." They explain that "[t]he No Trading with Invaders Act would automatically revoke Permanent Normal

This is from a speech by Senator (and former U.S. Trade Rep.) Rob Portman: I believe we should also target Russia's trade sector by revoking our Permanent Normal Trade Relationship, or PNTR, with Russia. In other words, the United States should no longer give Russia unrestricted access

This is a guest post from Chaturbhuj (a law student at National Law University, Jodhpur, India) and Hridyanand Ojha (a law student at Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India) Introduction The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered Europe’s largest land conflict since 1945. This conflict presents a severe