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Webinar on the Appellate Body Crisis

Srikar Mysore Sridhar has organized a webinar on the Appellate Body crisis at Harvard's Kennedy School tomorrow (November 19, 2021 at 10 am EST (4 pm Geneva Time, 8.30 pm IST)). Cherise Valles will be moderating, and Peter Van Den Bossche, Joost Pauwelyn and I will be
Simon Lester 18 Nov 2021 1 min read

Call for Papers: Workshop on The Political and Legal Theory of International Courts and Tribunals Oslo

From PluriCourts: The research Centre PluriCourts is planning a multidisciplinary workshop on international courts and tribunals which will take place 20. - 21. June 2022 in Oslo. The workshop will bring together scholars of philosophy, legal theory, and political theory who study regional and international courts and tribunals, and in
Simon Lester 18 Nov 2021 1 min read

“Resistance Is Futile”: Debunking the Myth of De-Globalization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) released the World Trade Report today. Here are some excerpts: [E]ven a crisis as devastating and unprecedented as COVID-19 has not resulted in the wholesale unravelling of trade and integration.  [W]hat became clear over subsequent months was not only how quickly supply chains
Sungjoon Cho 17 Nov 2021 1 min read

Australia has published its 1st submission in China - ADD on barley from Australia DS598

To find the submission, go to this page Summary of Australia's involvement in disputes currently before the World Trade Organization | Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (dfat.gov.au) and scroll down to find this link DS-598 Australia's First Written Submission (dfat.gov.au)
Brett Williams 16 Nov 2021 1 min read

Some Comments on a New Foreign Affairs Piece Discussing Trade and Climate Change

All these recent debates I've had with Tim Meyer and Todd Tucker on trade policy and climate change have me thinking about these issues generally, and I had a few comments on a new piece in Foreign Affairs by political science professor Jessica Green that touches on all
Simon Lester 15 Nov 2021 7 min read

Latest Fisheries Draft Addresses US Concerns on Forced Labor

On November 8, 2021, a revised draft text and explanatory note on the WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations was released by the Chair of the talks, Ambassador Santiago Wills of Colombia. Some changes were simply editorial, others substantive, and some adjustments reflected areas for which more discussion was still needed. Taken
Inu Manak 11 Nov 2021 5 min read

More on the U.S.-EU Section 232 Deal Affecting Carbon Emissions: A Response to the Response by Tim and Todd

Thanks to Tim Meyer and Todd Tucker for taking the time to respond to my questions about how the U.S.-EU Section 232 deal could lower carbon emissions. Not surprisingly, their response raises more questions for me, and I am still skeptical that this new arrangement will lead to
Simon Lester 07 Nov 2021 6 min read

Is Weakening the Antidumping Jurisprudence an Essential Condition to Recuperate the WTO?

Former Deputy Director-General Alan Wm. Wolff appears to think so.  In his remarks (“Defining Success for MC12”) delivered at Harvard JFK School on October 29, 2021, Wolff spelled out several candid, and controversial, prescriptions to revive the currently languishing WTO enterprise of both negotiation and dispute resolution.  Here are some
Sungjoon Cho 06 Nov 2021 2 min read

Response from Tim Meyer and Todd Tucker: How Exactly Would the U.S.-EU Section 232 Deal Affect Carbon Emissions?

Guest post from Timothy Meyer (professor of law and the director of international legal studies at Vanderbilt Law School) and Todd N. Tucker (political scientist and director of governance studies at the Roosevelt Institute). Follow them @Tim_L_Meyer and @ToddNTucker. The United States and the European Union announced a
Simon Lester 05 Nov 2021 5 min read

How Exactly Would the U.S.-EU Section 232 Deal Affect Carbon Emissions?

I've seen some talk on Twitter and elsewhere about the "Carbon-Based Sectoral Arrangement on Steel and Aluminum Trade" part of the U.S.-EU Section 232 agreement, as the White House referred to it, with people seeming to suggest that this is a big deal (a
Simon Lester 04 Nov 2021 3 min read

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Guest Post: Are President Trump’s New Section 122 Tariffs Legal?

This is a guest post from Bryan Riley and Joe Bishop-Henchman. Bryan is Director of the Free Trade Initiative at the National Taxpayers Union; Joe is Executive Vice President at the National Taxpayers Union Foundation President Trump has issued new 10% tariffs, shortly after raised to 15%, based on Section
24 Feb 2026 6 min read

Section 122 as a (Partial) Replacement for the IEEPA Tariffs

Apparently, this is the era of dusting off old international economic policy statutes and figuring out what they mean and how they work. After the Supreme Court's ruling today in Learning Resources, holding that "IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs," we are now
20 Feb 2026 5 min read

Comparing the Forced Labor Provisions in the New U.S. Trade Deals

Continuing my multi-part blog posting series on comparing provisions in the Trump administration trade agreements, let's look now at the provisions that try to induce U.S. trading partners to take action against imports made with forced labor.
20 Feb 2026 4 min read

AOC on Foreign Policy and Trade Policy

AOC spoke on a couple panels last week at the Munich Security Conference and also spoke at the Technische Universität Berlin, and this European trip was widely seen as a move to establish some foreign policy credentials for a presidential run.
17 Feb 2026 12 min read

Comparing the Enforcement Provisions in the New U.S. Trade Deals

Building on the comparison of trade agreement provisions in my last post, let's take a look at the "enforcement" provisions of the six agreements for which the legal texts have been published.
11 Feb 2026 4 min read

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