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Biden’s Worker-Centered Trade Policy: Whose Workers?

As Simon mentioned in an earlier post, various labor-related complaints and requests under USMCA are “heating up.” This activity reinforces the Biden Administration’s new “worker-centered trade policy” that, according to USTR Ambassador Katherine Tai, “will foster broad-based, equitable growth, increase innovation, and give workers a seat

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

Financial University Organizes Conference on Russia and the WTO

On 19-20 May 2015, the Financial University of the Russian Federation held its first international conference on the topic of "WTO Law in the Legal System of the Russian Federation: Problems of Application and Teaching." To my knowledge, this was the first international legal conference held to

Significant Developments in SCM Benchmarking Jurisprudence

Within the last two weeks, the Appellate Body has issued two important decisions interpreting the SCM Agreement: US-Carbon Steel (India) (DS436), and US-CVD (China) (DS437). In DS436, India raised numerous complex issues under SCM; in DS437, China mounted a systematic challenge to more than a dozen US CVD

John Magnus on the Appellate Body's Double Remedies Ruling

He doesn't like it. Here's one part of why: The following is a fair summary of the AB decision. Domestic subsidies when used to reduce export price will, unless they also produce a lower normal value calculation, increase the recipient’s dumping margin and be offset

Even More Double Remedies

AFP reports: China said Monday it would levy anti-subsidy duties of up to 11.19 percent on imports of EU potato starch, in apparent retaliation over Brussels' decision to slap taxes on Chinese fine art paper. The commerce ministry said in a statement that importers of potato starch

More Double Remedies

From the WSJ, this time it's the EU imposing both anti-dumping and countervailing duties: China said Saturday the European Union's move to slap tariffs on imports of Chinese coated fine paper is against the world trade organization principle and it will take measures to protect

New AD/CVD Proposals in Australia: Burden Shifting and Presumptions

Trade lawyer Daniel Moulis reports on proposed changes to Australia's anti-dumping and countervailing duty law here. There's a lot going on with these proposals, but here's one aspect I thought was particularly interesting: ... a private Member’s bill has been introduced into Parliament

Cash Payments to Petitioners to Avoid Higher Anti-Dumping Duties

Via a tradelawnews tweet, I came across this WSJ article: Some U.S. furniture makers and their lawyers have found a reliable way to extract cash from Chinese competitors deemed by U.S. officials to have "dumped" their products in the U.S., selling them at unfairly low

Is there something wrong with this picture? (as painted by the Panel in US-AD/CVD)

I have finally finished reading the Panel report in DS379. What an amazing decision! The Panel has effectively declared the second largest economy in the world as a completely distorted one for the purpose of the SCM. The following are some key points of the decision, and their possible implications: