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How To Design a Subsidy Rule Carveout for Carbon Reduction Measures

Jennifer Hillman and Inu Manak have a new paper out called "Rethinking International Rules on Subsidies." In a nutshell, they argue that all the new subsidies being thrown around are likely to create difficulties in international economic relations, and some revised rules might help with that. One key

Does Ro Khanna Want To Get Rid of the Specificity Requirement in WTO Subsidies Rules?

In a recent post, I quoted a speech by Congressman Ro Khanna, in which he said: The US needs to work with our allies to pursue a broad WTO dispute case against the PRC. One hurdle is that the current Dispute Settlement process cannot litigate in key China-related areas that

How Is the Biden Administration Thinking about "Industrial Strategy" and International Economic Relations?

Last week, Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves made some remarks on "Modern Industrial Strategy for U.S. Competitiveness, Equity, and Resilience." In his remarks, Graves explained how the Biden administration was providing direct subsidies and other government support to promote certain sectors of the U.S. economy.

Some Questions about the Biden Administration's Plans for Industrial Subsidies

This is from a speech last week by White House NEC Director Brian Deese on "Executing a Modern American Industrial Strategy": Some have raised a valid concern that countries may keep one-upping each other on ever-larger industrial subsidies, reducing their efficiency. But the investments we’re making will

Challenging China's Export Credits at the WTO

A couple years ago, I wrote about the possibility of challenging China's export credit practices under WTO rules. In that post, I noted the skepticism of others about such a challenge, and concluded with this: I have more hope for a systemic case against China's export

Guest Post: European Commission puts forth legislative proposal to tackle “foreign subsidies”

This is a guest post by Victor Crochet of Van Bael & Bellis The European Commission puts forth its legislative proposal to tackle “foreign subsidies” in the European Union. The text of the proposal can be found here. There has been lots of discussions on this blog over the Commission’

OBOR, No More?

Last year the European Union (EU) imposed countervailing duties (CVDs) against imports of glass fiber originating in Egypt. Nothing shocking so far, other than the fact that the EU measure was counteracting subsidies granted by … China. How should we think about this and similar issues? Facts of the Case Commission

Can the WTO Discipline China's Export Credits?

This is from an article by Kristen Hopewell about China's growing use of export credits: 6.2. Inadequacy of World Trade Organization disciplines Amid the weakening of the OECD Arrangement’s authority and the inability to reach agreement on a new version to replace it, one might expect

New Proposal to Strengthen WTO Notification Requirements: From Dispute Settlement to Compliance Regime?

In a period where “trade wars” and the Appellate Body (AB) deadlock are getting most of the airtime, an April 1 proposal by nine WTO Members, including the EU and the US, but also Argentina and Costa Rica, to “strengthen notification requirements under WTO agreements” is both refreshing and intriguing

Benefit and Market in the AB Feed-In Tariff Report

I'm at the BIICL WTO conference, which has me thinking about a good discussion last year of the Appellate Body's ruling on "benefit" in the Canada - Feed-In Tariff case (see prior posts here and here). As I recall, there were two people on