Trade Remedies

Stephen Powell of University of Florida Law School has posted a paper entitled "Expanding the NAFTA Chapter 19 Dispute Settlement System: A Way to Declaw Trade Remedy Laws in a Free Trade Area of the Americas?"  Here's the abstract: Chapter 19 of the NAFTA transfers judicial

Conventional wisdom holds that anti-dumping cases increase during economic downturns.  Chad Bown's latest research seems to confirm this: Newly available data tracking the first of these trade policies - the initiation of new antidumping investigations and new antidumping measures imposed - show a marked increase in 2008 corresponding with

In relation to anti-dumping duties it imposed on Chinese screws and bolts, the European Commission says: "We reject strongly the implication from various sources quoted in the press that any anti-dumping measures in this case would be protectionist and not based on fact," the Commission said

An opportunity for some good puns, as you can probably imagine, courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald.

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.

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