WTO Disputes

Reuters reports that Canada is requesting a panel in the Seal Products WTO case (DS400): Canada asked the World Trade Organization on Friday to set up a panel to resolve its dispute with the European Union over the EU's ban on trade in seal products, Fisheries Minister Gail

Australia and New Zealand have agreed (Word doc) on a period of 9 months (from DSB adoption) for implementing the Australia - Apples findings, with the period ending on August 17, 2011.  Here's something from their agreement: The agreed period of time for implementation will allow Australia to

Speaking of U.S. - China economic law, as Sungjoon was in the last post, here's the key part of the U.S. WTO complaint related to alleged Chinese subsidies to the wind power industry (DS419): My authorities have instructed me to request consultations with the Government of

China's appeal in the U.S. - AD/CVD on Chinese Products (DS379) dispute is here: http://www.worldtradelaw.net/na/ds379-6(na).pdf  Some key issues in the appeal: Double Remedies This is the one I blogged about here. (In the comments on that post, I mentioned

This may be a key issue in the U.S. - Clove Cigarettes case (DS406).  (See this link for some past posts on the case).  Briefly, the case is about whether the U.S. ban on clove cigarettes (produced mainly in Indonesia), but not menthol cigarettes (produced mainly in the

It appears that the Ukraine - Armenia dispute has been resolved: Citing the need to comply with international trading rules, the Armenian government pushed through parliament on Wednesday a bill setting a new regime of taxation for imported fuel, tobacco and alcohol. Importers of these products currently pay only fixed

The two recent U.S. WTO complaints against China are here: China - Electronic Payment Services (DS413)China - AD/CVDs on Electrical Steel (DS414)President Obama had this to say on the issue of trade complaints against China in reponse to a question yesterday at a town hall: MR.

Here's the latest WTO complaint, Canada - Certain Measures Affecting the Renewable Energy Generation Sector (DS412).  It is yet another trade and clean energy dispute, which seem to be proliferating these days. From the consultations request: The measures that are the subject of this request are those taken

More on the substance of the dispute later (possibly much later -- it's a long report), but here's something interesting from today's Australia - Apples panel report: 6. Unsolicited letter from an Australian private entity 1.17 On 26 August 2008, the Panel received