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The Labor Provisions in the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment

The EU has published a number of parts of the text of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) here. The "Investment and Sustainable Development" section is here. This is the substantive language on labor rights: Sub-Section 3 – Investment and Labour Article 1: Right to regulate

Two Upcoming Online Events: The WTO Panel Process, and U.S. Trade Policy in the Biden Administration

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

The Trump/Lighthizer Legacy on Trade

With the Trump administration now finished, we are in the period where people will be spinning Trump's time in office into the narrative they want to create. On trade policy, Trump's U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer spent some of his final weeks in office trying

Americans on the WTO Indicative List of Panelists

Back in April of 2017, I said this: while the indicative list of panelists does not have much correlation to people who actually serve as panelists, a former intern of mine named Christina Woo put together this cool table of Americans on the indicative list since the GATT era. The

Trade Policy and Race/Ethnicity

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.

FTA safeguard exclusion clauses . Do they bite?

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.

US Solar Safeguard: How much discretion is too much?

Yesterday Canada requested consultations under USMCA regarding the “imposition and ongoing application” to Canada of the US safeguard measure on solar measures. Canada argues that the application of the safeguard to Canada violates the US obligation to exclude USMCA Parties from the scope of the safeguard unless imports from that

Guest Post from the European Commission: Candidates for adjudicators in EU trade agreements

This is from Colin Brown of the European Commission: Candidates for adjudicators in EU trade agreements On 18 December 2020 the European Commission and the EU’s Member States initiated a call for candidates to be appointed as adjudicators in EU trade agreements. The aim is to establish a pool

Jake Sullivan on the Biden Administration's Trade Policy Towards China and Towards Allies

Joe Biden's choice for National Security Adviser is Jake Sullivan. Sullivan was on Fareed Zakaria's TV show yesterday, and they had the following exchange: ZAKARIA: ... Jake, one of the things that Joe Biden said on the campaign trail often and forcefully was that Donald Trump'

Enforcement of subsidy provisions in the EU-UK TCA

The EU-UK TCA is here, and it has extensive provisions on subsidies. It is fair to say, I think, that these are the most detailed rules on subsidies to be found in any FTA negotiated to date, which is not surprising, given that they replace the EU’s state