Green Steel Deal

This is a guest post by David Kleimann (PhD) - a visiting fellow at the Brussels based Bruegel think tank. He wishes to thank Todd N. Tucker and Timothy Meyer for productive debates in past and future. In July of this year, I published a Bruegel working paper titled ‘Section

Thanks to Tim Meyer and Ben Heath for responding to my "The Effectiveness of the GASSA in Reducing Carbon Emissions" post, in which I argued that trade remedies could undermine their argument for tariffs designed to encourage decarbonization of the steel and aluminum sectors. Let me first say

This is a guest post from law professors Timothy Meyer & J. Benton Heath Much of the commentary on the ongoing negotiations over the Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum (GASSA) have focused on legal issues, especially WTO compatibility. In large part, this focus has been driven by the

Over at the Roosevelt Institute blog, there are some new pieces on the Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum (GASSA). Todd Tucker and Tim Meyer have a piece that responds to a paper by Bruegel. Maha Rafi Atal has a piece on development aspects. And Ben Heath and Tim

The Roosevelt Institute held a webinar on Tuesday entitled "Green Steel Deal: A Transformative Trade Policy for Our Economy & Environment." I remain skeptical about this approach to reducing carbon emissions, but nevertheless I am following it with interest. U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai offered remarks at

This is a guest post by David Kleimann, PhD, writing in personal capacity. He wishes to thank Aaron Cosbey and Simon Lester for helpful comments on an early draft of this post. All errors remain the author’s alone. He would also like to thank Todd Tucker and Tim Meyer