At today's confirmation hearing for Tom Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary, there were a couple questions on country of origin labelling for beef products, as farm state Senators pressed Vilsack on working on a new COOL measure that would be WTO-compliant: Senator Fischer: As you know the U.

The Inter-American Development Bank is looking for a new Member of the Administrative Tribunal: Members of the Tribunal The Tribunal has the authority to conduct hearings, examine evidence, make decisions and render judgments on controversies and disputes between the Bank or IDB Invest and their respective employees. In carrying

This is from the SIEL: The Seventh Biennial Global Conference of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) will take place as a virtual conference in collaboration with Bocconi University, Milan / Italy, on 8-10 July 2021. I. Conference Content Even prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic,

I'll be the moderator for two online events next week, one hosted by ASIL/IIEL on the WTO panel process, and the other hosted by SIEL on U.S. trade policy under the Biden administration. Here are the details and links: ASIL/IIEL - Rethinking the WTO Panel Process

There was some Twitter discussion last week of a new paper from Global Trade Watch called "Trade Discrimination: The Disproportionate, Underreported Damage to U.S. Black and Latino Workers From U.S. Trade Policies." I can see how it would be useful to study the impact of U.

In a recent post discussing the NAFTA/USMCA provision relating to conditional exclusion of FTA partners from global safeguards under the WTO, I stated that "this type of exclusion is unique to a handful of US FTAs". Count on Amy Porges to catch me in a gross error.