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Assigning Blame for the Impact of COVID-19 on Developing Countries: Markets or Governments

This is from remarks by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai yesterday at a WTO virtual conference on COVID-19 vaccine equity: We hope to hear more today about how the market once again has failed in meeting the health needs of developing countries. As part of that we have to

Is USTR Ready To Revisit Necessity Tests?

This is from remarks by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai today on issues related to trade and the environment: Even as investors take a greater interest in companies’ environmental risk exposure, the multilateral trading system has no rules to address the corporate incentive to participate in the race to

Digital Trade Agreements and Domestic Policy

I did a series of posts recently on digital trade issues, and I have now consolidated them all into a short Cato paper. Here's the intro: National debates over policies that affect the flow of digital information are heating up as censorship, surveillance, control over personal data, and

SIEL April Conversation: Special and Differential Treatment under WTO

From the SIEL: The Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) is pleased to invite you to its February Conversation entitled ‘Special and Differential Treatment under WTO’, with Dr Rashmi Banga (UNCTAD), Prof. Jan Wouters (KU Leuven), Dr Inu Manak (Cato Institute), Vineet Hegde (KU Leuven), chaired and moderated by Jan

Economic Law Tweets

The global dialogue here has been more quiet than usual, so here are some of my economic law tweets over the past week: @SteveCharnovitz. @SecRaimondo should strengthen USDOC programs without violating international trade law. Recalling my work in the 1970s with Hal Williams to establish the Commerce-Labor Adjustment Action Committee,

Are GPA Arbitrations Confidential?

Inside US Trade has been reporting on a U.S. request to modify its GPA commitments so as to exclude certain medical products. Back in December 2020, there was this: "The U.S. notified the World Trade Organization last week that it intends to remove certain essential medicines and

Tweets on international economic law challenges

This Blog has been a little slow during a holy week, so here are a few of my tweets (@SteveCharnovitz) on how to improve a troubled global ecolonomy: Congress should quickly pass a law enabling Biden to ratify the 2016 Kigali Amendment which sets rules for the production, consumption, and

Possible Trade Law Violations in Biden's America Jobs Plan

Possible Trade Law Violations in Biden's America Jobs Plan Steve Charnovitz 31 March 2021 The White House has released a description of the Biden Administration's new infrastructure plan and, as expected, the plan contains several domestic content programs that may violate US obligations under the World

Are Digital Services Taxes Discriminatory? Who Should Decide?

In my last post, I talked about how USTR is continuing on with the Section 301 proceedings in several cases related to digital services taxes. In its announcement, USTR said: "In January, USTR found that the DSTs adopted by Austria, India, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom were

Call for Proposals: 2021 World Trade Forum on "China & the WTO: 20 Years On"

2021 World Trade Forum China & the WTO: 20 Years On (book track sessions) November 2021, World Trade Institute, Bern, Switzerland Call for Proposals Dear colleagues, We invite your submissions of proposals for contributions to a volume on China & the WTO: 20 Years On (World Trade Forum Series, Cambridge