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The Iran Deal: As the Vienna Talks Resume With a Focus on Economic Sanctions Relief, A Look Back at Snapback

Tomorrow, negotiators from the parties to the original Iran Deal, the JCPOA, will return to Vienna to continue talks on restoring the accord that was broken by the Trump Administration. In the coming days and weeks, the focus will move squarely to Iran's demands for sanctions relief. As

More NAFTA Chapter 19 Zeroing

Last year, a NAFTA Chapter 19 panel found that zeroing violates U.S. law. See this post for details. The panel thus remanded the matter back to Commerce to re-calculate the dumping margins without zeroing. Commerce did take some action, but the respondents felt that it was insufficient, and went

And Yet More on Trade Remedies under NAFTA

This is from Canadian trade lawyer Lawrence Herman, in a C.D. Howe Institute paper: Trade remedy cases under Chapter 19 of the NAFTA have been tapering off for several years. There was a flurry of activity under the Free Trade Agreement and in first five years of the NAFTA.

Speaking of Trade Remedies and NAFTA ...

... as I was in the last post, a number of prior NAFTA Chapter 19 panels have addressed the permissibility of zeroing under U.S. law. In yesterday's panel report in LWR Pipe and Tube, the panel addressed a different question: Is the Department of Commerce allowed to stop

NAFTA Chapter 19 Zeroing Decision

As mentioned a little while ago, a NAFTA Chapter 19 panel recently found that zeroing violates U.S. law. Here's a brief rundown of the majority opinion, and a little bit about the dissent. The issue addressed by the panel majority was: "Whether Commerce’s Application of

International Tribunals Don't Like Zeroing

It's not just the WTO. Last week, a NAFTA Chapter 19 tribunal that was considering a Department of Commerce AD ruling found zeroing to be impermissible: In sum, on the issue of the permissibility of zeroing, the Panel remands the matter back to Commerce to re-calculate Mittal’s