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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

The Biden Administration's Approach to Section 301

On Friday, USTR announced its next steps in many of the Section 301 digital services tax cases: The United States Trade Representative (USTR) today announced the next steps in its Section 301 investigations of Digital Service Taxes (DSTs) adopted or under consideration by ten U.S. trading partners. In January,

Tweets on the US and the World Economy

This Blog has long served as a global marketplace of ideas on national and international economic law. The market seems less active than it used to be, so I am posting a few of my Tweets of the past week: Trump’s unfair attacks on dispute system of the World

What Did the U.S. Originally Have in Mind for the Appellate Body? "Uniform Interpretation" vs “A Coherent and Predictable Body of Jurisprudence”

One of the issues that has come up in the Appellate Body appointments crisis is what exactly the Appellate Body's role should be. You can imagine a range of options here. At one extreme, it could be an arbitrator that decides the outcome without any reasoning at all.

WTO Rules on Chinese Industrial Subsidies and Approaches for Reform

Whether we need new rules to tackle Chinese SOEs and industrial policies and subsidies is being increasingly debated and will remain one of the most important and controversial issues for WTO reform. In 2019, Henry Gao and I engaged in this debate through a lengthy paper titled “Building A Market

Is Non-Discrimination in U.S. Digital Trade Agreements Nationality-Based?

Non-discrimination guru Lothar Ehring had a comment on my last post on non-discrimination in digital trade agreements, raising an issue I hadn't noticed: By eliminating a comparison with domestic products, the wording of certain non-discrimination provisions perhaps steers the provisions away from nationality-based discrimination