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Some Questions after the WTO Panel Reports on the U.S. Section 232 Tariffs

Four separate WTO panel reports related to the U.S. Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum were circulated on Friday, in complaints brought by China, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkiye. Here are some questions I had about these disputes. What will the complainants do now? Assuming the U.S. appeals

More on the U.S.-EU Section 232 Deal Affecting Carbon Emissions: A Response to the Response by Tim and Todd

Thanks to Tim Meyer and Todd Tucker for taking the time to respond to my questions about how the U.S.-EU Section 232 deal could lower carbon emissions. Not surprisingly, their response raises more questions for me, and I am still skeptical that this new arrangement will lead to

How Exactly Would the U.S.-EU Section 232 Deal Affect Carbon Emissions?

I've seen some talk on Twitter and elsewhere about the "Carbon-Based Sectoral Arrangement on Steel and Aluminum Trade" part of the U.S.-EU Section 232 agreement, as the White House referred to it, with people seeming to suggest that this is a big deal

Some Thoughts on the U.S. - EU Section 232 Tariff Agreements

The big trade news over the weekend was a resolution of the U.S. - EU Section 232 tariff disputes. Two key documents are this USTR fact sheet and this EU-US joint statement. The core of the agreement is as follows: The United States will replace the existing tariffs on

Section 232, the Scope of National Security, and Projecting U.S. Military Power

In response to legal and political pressure from Congress, the Commerce Department finally released its February 2019 Section 232 investigation report in the autos/auto parts cases. The report is here; the appendices are here. The main recommendation was as follows: The Secretary recommends the following actions the President could

The Possibility of a U.S.-EU Resolution on the Section 232 Steel and Aluminum Tariffs

In an article from last week, Politico Pro had some interesting quotes from U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on the issue of the Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs. I wish I had the full transcript on this, but I don't, so I'll have to

The Biden Administration's Possible Use of Section 232

When the Biden administration took office, many of us hoped they would undo the domestic policy and international relations damage caused by the Trump administration's use of Section 232 and Section 301 to impose tariffs. In at least some cases, there were real underlying problems of various sorts

Import Surge Protection and Retaliation in the Section 232 Agreements

Here's one aspect of the Section 232 steel/aluminum tariff removal agreements/understandings mentioned in a post last Friday (the excerpt below is from the agreement with Canada): After extensive discussions on trade in steel and aluminum covered by the action taken pursuant to Section 232 of the

Four "National Security" Disputes Down, A Bunch More To Go

Canada/Mexico and the United States have worked out a deal to get rid of the Section 232 steel/aluminum tariffs and the retaliatory tariffs. This is from Global Affairs Canada: After extensive discussions on trade in steel and aluminum covered by the action taken pursuant to Section 232 of

The CIT Opinion in the Section 232 Constitutionality Case

The opinion is here. The court rejected the plaintiffs' argument that Section 232 is unconstitutional. Here is a key part of the reasoning: Most importantly for the challenge here, in Algonquin, the Supreme Court found that section 232 “easily” met the intelligible principle standard because [i]t establishes clear