Last year, the U.S. and Japan signed a trade agreement that lowers tariffs on a small number of goods. Ever since it was signed, people have been wondering how this agreement is consistent with GATT Article XXIV, which in paragraph 8(b) says that "substantially all the trade&

Currency undervaluation is in the news, what with the US CVD case on tires from Vietnam, and a more recent US Section 301 investigation against the same country.  So it is not coincidental that I found myself looking at the most recent US Treasury Report on currency manipulation, “Macroeconomic and

This is a guest post by Professor Andrea Biondi and Michael Bowsher QC, King’s College London, Professor Christopher Yukins, George Washington University Dr Luca Rubini University of Birmingham and PhD candidate Gabriele Carovano, King’s College London. On 17th June 2020, the EU Commission published a White Paper on

Here are some excerpts from a paper which casts doubt on the idea that plain packaging regulation, by itself anyway, reduces smoking: ... we contribute to the existing empirical literature in three ways. First, we use a difference-in-differences (DiD) research design to evaluate the effect of plain packaging. Using data from