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The Official Announcement of Biden's Nomination of Katherine Tai

Here was President-Elect Biden's introduction of Katherine Tai as his nominee for U.S. Trade Representative (starts at 14:42): For the United States Trade Representative, I nominate Katherine Tai, a trusted trade expert, a dedicated public servant who knows government, and who has spent her career levelling

UK FTAs - EU content and rules of origin

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

Katherine Tai Will Be the Next U.S. Trade Representative

Reports indicate that Katherine Tai, Chief Trade Counsel for the House Ways and Means Committee, is Biden's choice for U.S. Trade Representative. About a month ago, I wrote the following: the job of the next U.S. Trade Representative will be a serious challenge. The person who

The First USMCA Complaint

The first USMCA consultations request is here. Not surprisingly, it relates to Canadian dairy TRQs, a frequent source of trade irritation. Is there a violation? I have no idea! Some of the issues seem factual in nature. For example, there is a claim under this provision: 11. A Party administering

China-US Dialogues in the Biden Administration

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

Specificity in DOC Currency Undervaluation Findings

A couple weeks ago, Jesse Kreier wrote about the Commerce Department's decision to treat currency undervaluation as a countervailable subsidy in a case against tires from Viet Nam. As he explained it, one aspect of the Commerce Department's reasoning was related to the specificity of the

China - Preliminary AD Determination on Australian Wine

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

Call for submissions: UCM-Study on the notion, characteristics, legal status and targets of unilateral sanctions

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

Katherine Tai on Various Trade Policy Issues: China, Supply Chains, A Biden Administration Trade Agenda, USMCA, WTO, ISDS

It's hard to know what to make of the reporting on who might be the next U.S. Trade Representative, which has mentioned a wide range of possible candidates, but I've seen two Politico articles describing support for Katherine Tai, the Chief Trade Counsel for the

Webinar on the European Commission White Paper on Foreign Subsidies

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