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Sabine Weyand Comments on WTO Dispute Settlement Reform

At a CSIS event today on "Rethinking Trade In a Geopolitical Context: Trends and Transatlantic Cooperation," European Commission Director General for Trade Sabine Weyand spoke with Bill Reinsch about a number of issues, and they had this exchange on WTO dispute settlement reform: Reinsch: This [question] comes from

Comments Regarding U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade

U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade Prof. Steve Charnovitz I support the Biden Administration's efforts to improve cooperation with Taiwan. Strengthening Taiwan's economic and political sovereignty is important both for the people of Taiwan and for stability in East Asia. Taiwan improved its international

General vs. Specific Non-Discrimination Obligations and Exceptions in Digital Trade

Following up on my last post, let me go into more detail about an issue that was under the surface in that post but I didn't really get in to: I think there is some overlap between a general non-discrimination obligation, on the one hand, and a

Russian Aggression on Ukraine from the International Economic Law Perspective - Webinar

This is from Professor Marcin Menkes about an upcoming webinar: Russian Aggression on Ukraine from the International Economic Law Perspective 14 July 2022 Time zone: CET Venue: This is an online conference. Please register here Conveners: Prof. Marcin J. Menkes, Warsaw School of Economics Prof. Csongor István Nagy, University of

Non-Discriminatory Treatment of Digital Trade Products in the EU-NZ FTA

Last year, I did some blog posts and a short paper that looked at the wording of the provision in digital trade chapters/agreements on "Non‐ Discriminatory Treatment of Digital Products." The basic point was that the usual language in this provision refers to "digital products,"

AD & CVD provisions in the EU-NZ FTA

Negotiations concluded this week on yet another free trade agreement, this time between the European Union and New Zealand. Chapter 5 of the EU-NZ FTA is about trade remedies. Section A of that chapter deals with antidumping and countervailing duties. As a trade remedies nerd, I always like to

Do Trade Agreements Involve More or Less Deference to Business?

This is something Beth Baltzan, a Senior Advisor at USTR, said at last week's Economist Impact's 2nd annual Global Trade Week as part of a panel discussion on digital trade agreements: We need to think about the philosophy that led to the creation of the trade

Online Symposium: The Global Economy, the Sustainable Development Goals & the Law Symposium

From the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL): What are the laws and public policies linking our global economy with sustainability? How can law and governance innovations, worldwide, contribute to people, prosperity and protection of our planet? Please Register Here Now for The Global Economy, the Sustainable Development Goals

Guest Post: Full carbon pricing, average carbon intensity and the Global Steel and Aluminium Arrangement: in conversation with Bixuan Xu and Aaron Cosbey

This is a guest post by Dr Giulia Claudia Leonelli of Birkbeck College, University of London In June 2022, the Clean Competition Act was introduced in the US Senate. Bixuan Xu has developed an insightful comparison of the Whitehouse Bill and the EU proposal for a carbon border adjustment mechanism

Guest Post: Response to Bixuan Wu on EU's CBAM

This is a response by Aaron Cosbey to the July 1, 2022 IELP Blog Guest Post by Bixuan Wu: The EU’s CBAM The author concludes that the EU’s CBAM is primarily about pressuring other countries into raising domestic carbon prices. This is not so. It’s primarily aimed