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Three Forces of the World Trading System

On November 26, the World Trade Organization (WTO) General Council decided to indefinitely postpone the 12th Ministerial Meeting (MC12), which was scheduled to convene from November 30 to December 3 this year, due to “an outbreak of a particularly transmissible strain of the COVID-19 virus.” The prospect of the

More Hurdles for the "Green Steel Deal"

This is from a CFR blog post by Jennifer Hillman and Alex Tippett on the "green steel deal": For the proposed U.S.-EU agreement on green steel and aluminum be successful, however, it will have to avoid several potential pitfalls. First, the deal cannot devolve into a

ITC Institutes Investigation on Distributional Effects of Goods and Services Trade and Trade Policy

Back in mid-October, USTR asked the ITC to carry out a two-part investigation of the distributional effects of goods and services trade and trade policy. The ITC just announced that it would undertake this investigation. The Notice of Investigation is here. There has been a lot of good

Solar Safeguards and Compensation

In keeping an eye on trade disputes in the pipeline, I was recently looking over the USMCA Chapter 31 complaint brought by Canada against the U.S. solar safeguard measures. I haven't read the submissions closely enough to have a view on who is right and who is

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

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 particular

“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

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.

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

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