WTO Disputes

In this week's issue, the Economist weighs in on the EU's decision to ban most seal products.  They make the point that if the EU wanted to promote animal welfare, they had other avenues, closer to home, to do so: ROUGHLY handled, and incompetently stunned, terrified

I had not expected sports to play such a big role in Seals dispute.  The other day I mentioned the role of former hockey player Peter Stastny.  Now there's this: Canadian MPs have pushed forward a motion urging Canada's 2010 Olympic team to add seal skin

A "provisional" agreement has been reached between the U.S. and EU (I'm not sure what Canada's views on all of this are).  Sounds like they still have some hard issues to deal with, though. From the USTR press release: The agreement in principle

Today's developments (so far) in the WTO seals dispute (DS369), with links: » Canada will challenge seal ban to WTO: Day OTTAWA — The federal government will take the European Union to the World Trade Organization to challenge a pending ban on seal products unless the EU exempts Canada because

Or maybe he puts the biscuit in the basket?  Two minutes for roughing?  I don't know, there must be some hockey term that is relevant here, but I can't quite find the right one.  I had been wondering what famous hockey players thought of the Canadian

Forbes did an interesting two part series (actually, there may be more parts coming, I'm not sure) on China in WTO dispute settlement.  From part 1: Facing a distressed export sector and rising protectionism amid the global economic crisis, the Chinese government will get more comfortable and aggressive

A little while ago, I did a post on the purpose of SCM Agreement countermeasures.  I don't really like how the post came out, though.  So, I'm going to take a do-over and try it again. The basic issue is whether "countermeasures" under

From the U.S. statement at today's DSB meeting: •             Mr. Chairman, the United States is disappointed that Mexico has chosen to move forward with a request for panel establishment. •             The United States considers its dolphin-safe labeling regime central to the protection of the dolphin population in the

From the abstract of a "A Theory of WTO Adjudication: From Empirical Analysis to Biased Rule Development," by Juscelino Colares: The positive theory of litigation predicts that, under certain conditions, plaintiffs and defendants achieve an unremarkable and roughly equivalent share of litigation success. This Article, grounded in an