When RCEP came out, analysts emphasized the importance of cumulation rules.  While many of the RCEP countries had FTAs among themselves, binding all those FTAs into a single mega-regional meant that all RCEP content would be counted for origin purposes, and this would allow products with complex RCEP value chains

China-US Dialogues in the Biden Administration 7 December 2020 An article by Brett Fortnam in Inside US Trade reports on a speech given today by China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi to the US-China Business Council.  Based on this report, I believe that Minister Wang is giving good advice

Co-authored with Sandeep Chandy The growing trade tensions between China and Australia have been widely reported in the press. In a recent manifestation of these tensions, China last Friday issued an affirmative preliminary determination regarding alleged dumping of wine from Australia, and imposed provisional duties of between 107.1% to

This is from Dr. Michael J. Strauss, Professor of international relations and international law, Centre d'Etudes Diplomatiques et Stratégiques (Paris), Instructor in international economic law, Université de Paris 5 - Paris Descartes, and Academic advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures

Here are the details for a webinar presented by the Centre of European Law, King’s College London & George Washington University Law School (register here): Webinar – Towards a European Economic Sovereignty? Some reflections on the Commission White Paper on Foreign Subsidies - 1 December 2020 The European Commission is

If we need any reminder that the Brexit transition period is drawing to a close, and of the implications for UK/EU trade, then two public notices issued over the past few months should do the trick. These notices, one by the UK and the other by the EU Commission,