Trade Remedies

ScotusWiki summarizes here. From the argument preview they prepared: Tomorrow in Nos. 07-1078 and 07-1059, USEC v. Eurodif and United States v. Eurodif, the Supreme Court will consider whether the Federal Circuit should have accorded Chevron deference to the Commerce Department’s construction of 19 U.S.C. § 1673. That

Ben Muse reports on efforts to revive it:  http://benmuse.typepad.com/custom_house/2008/09/is-the-byrd-amendment-coming-back.html  The post has lots of good links.

John McCain has been going around declaring himself to be a free trader.  ("There's no greater free trader in the Senate than I am," he says).  But Greg Mankiw, in the context of raising some election issues that are important to economists, brings up the uncomfortable

From a post about anti-dumping over at VoxEU: Even leaving aside legal details, our recent work and other studies suggest some obvious starting points for any reform of the EU antidumping system. Antidumping instruments that are simply another form of protection leave too much discretion in the hands of the