Government Procurement

Long-time trade lawyer Jean Heilman Grier has a great blog focusing on procurement issues.  Her latest post is about a new Biden administration website on Made in America: The Biden administration has inaugurated a new Made in America website with information on waivers of the Buy American Act and other

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

From the FT: The US and other big trading partners of China are expected to reject Beijing’s latest proposal to join a global pact on government purchases because it does not go far enough in opening the $500bn Chinese procurement market to foreign businesses. ... The main concern about China’

I'm often surprised by how much support there is for "Buy National" provisions (see, e.g., the proposal of many U.S. Democratic house members here).  WTO DG Pascal Lamy, in his 2009 annual report on trade and trade-related developments, discusses the issue in the context