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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
Inu Manak 30 Nov 2020 1 min read

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
Simon Lester 29 Nov 2020 24 min read

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
Simon Lester 29 Nov 2020 2 min read

Brexit and Steel Safeguards

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,
Jesse Kreier 26 Nov 2020 2 min read

Solving the Challenges to World Trade (New Essay by Steve Charnovitz)

My new Essay, "Solving the Challenges to World Trade" has been posted as GWU Legal Studies Research Paper 2020-78.  The paper is available for download on SSRN at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3736069.  Here is the abstract of the Essay: World trade faces
Charnovitz 23 Nov 2020 1 min read

Carbon Trading - Countervailing Free Allowances

I guess I must be the only lawyer on either side of the Atlantic that missed two pending US countervail cases involving the EU's Emission Trading Scheme. The investigations, involving Forged Steel Fluid End Blocks from Italy and Germany, include allegations that the free emission allowances given to
Jesse Kreier 23 Nov 2020 2 min read

RCEP v. CPTPP - Transitional Safeguards

We’re all looking at RCEP now. One really interesting angle is to compare the RCEP text to that of the CPTPP, its competitor. On the one hand, in many areas the text of RCEP is not only similar, but is in fact identical, to that of CPTPP. At the
Jesse Kreier 18 Nov 2020 1 min read

Deborah Elms on the Absence of ISDS, Prospects for a Secretariat, and Dispute Settlement in RCEP

There has been lots of talk about RCEP these past few days. For Asian trade issues, I always listen closely to what Deborah Elms has to say. She just did an episode of the Trade Talks Podcast on RCEP, and I wanted to highlight three things she said there. First,
Simon Lester 18 Nov 2020 5 min read

A Few Interesting Aspects of the RCEP Legal Text

The RCEP legal text has just been released. I don't have a sense at this point of how much liberalization is involved in this agreement, but skimming through the various chapters, I found a number of tidbits worth noting. 1. There's an interesting "general review&
Simon Lester 15 Nov 2020 4 min read

The Biden-Harris USTR Agency Review Team

The Biden-Harris transition team just posted agency review teams here. They describe these teams as follows: Agency review teams are responsible for understanding the operations of each agency, ensuring a smooth transfer of power, and preparing for President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris and their cabinet to hit the ground
Simon Lester 10 Nov 2020 1 min read

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The Section 301 Excess Capacity Investigation Needs Less Madness, More Method

Shortly after the Supreme Court ruled President Trump’s emergency tariffs under IEEPA  unconstitutional, the administration scrambled to rebuild its tariff wall. While the announcement of Section 122 tariffs immediately following the ruling will provide a temporary patch, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office quickly began to utilize another
24 Apr 2026 6 min read

War Tariffs

This is a co-authored post by Kathleen Claussen and Tim Meyer. Last week, President Trump announced that the United States would be imposing new tariffs of 50 percent of the value of any product coming from any country that sells weapons or provides military aid to Iran. Some commentators questioned
14 Apr 2026 5 min read

USMCA Review and Extension Predictions

When the idea of an expiration clause was suggested during the NAFTA renegotiation, I was against it from the start, and Inu and I wrote a pretty critical piece about it at the time. A review is great, we said, let's definitely have reviews, and there are plenty of ways to do that.
08 Apr 2026 5 min read

The Section 301 Surge Continues: Investigating the Adoption/Enforcement/Administration of Forced Labor Import Bans

This Section 301 investigation intends to pressure all sixty named trade partners (even, inexplicably, including Canada and Mexico) to adopt similar enforcement procedures. This announcement is highly problematic for the four reasons I address below.
16 Mar 2026 4 min read

The Section 301 Surge Is Upon Us: Investigating Excess Capacity and Production

The first of a large batch of expected Section 301 investigations has arrived, as USTR announced yesterday that it was initiating investigations on acts, policies, and practices of various countries/economies "relating to structural excess capacity and production in manufacturing sectors."
12 Mar 2026 3 min read

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