International Economic Law and Policy February 02,2010 to February 26,2010

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Global Administrative Law and ...

From a draft paper by Richard Stewart of NYU Law School, entitled "THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW": The WTO imposes extensive GAL requirements...

Vietnam's First WTO Complaint

From Reuters: Vietnam has launched its first dispute at the World Trade Organisation with a case against U.S. anti-dumping measures on its key exports of shrimp. The communist state only jo...

How Foreign Investment Creates...

In the WSJ, economist Matthew Slaughter writes: Academic research, including most recently by Harvard's Mihir Desai and Fritz Foley and University of Michigan's James Hines, has consisten...

Trade Questions for Obama

From Arlen Specter: I have a two-part question, and just a brief statement of the issue. We have lost 2.3 million jobs as a result of the trade imbalance with China between 2001 and 2007. Th...

2009 SIEL/CUP Prize for an Ess...

The Society of International Economic Law is pleased to announce the results of the 2009 SIEL/CUP Essay Prize Competition.WinnerKrzysztof Pelc, 'Eluding Efficiency: Why Do We Not See More ...

Dan Drezner on China's Great F...

His full post: Well, there certainly are a surfeit of Sino-American tiffs

More Support for Consumption-B...

At Vox, Rahel Aichele and Gabriel Felbermayr explain how production-based carbon reduction can lead to carbon leakage:

Will the U.S. Challenge the Ch...

From Reuters: China said on Friday it will slap heavy anti-dumping duties on U.S. chicken parts, a move likely to aggravate trade ties between two of the world's most important economies at...

More Asbestos Case Follow-Up

Following-up on this follow-up post, here's more about current disagreements over trade in asbestos: Controversy over asbestos exports continued to dog Quebec Premier Jean Charest right up ...

Government Support for Domesti...

The Economist has a piece on competition in the market for building nuclear reactors, in which they discuss how state support for domestic competitors may be playing a role: ... the United ...

“Free Trade Doesn't Work”

That's the title of a new book by Ian Fletcher. (I came across it as a sponsored link in a Google search.) There are a number of different reasons people criticize free trade, so I was cu...

Obama on Trade: The Latest

From a soon to be published interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek: In an effort to make U.S. exports more attractive, Obama set a year-end objective for persuading China to allow the value o...

The Conflicts Inherent in Stat...

From an op-ed by Dan Ikenson of the Cato Institute: When he urged Americans to "stop driving" their Toyotas last week, was Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood speaking as the head of a fede...

Who Is Most Hurt by the Yuan's...

According to Arvind Subramanian, the biggest harm from the undervalued yuan is to developing countries: .. an undervalued exchange rate is above all a protectionist trade policy, because it...

"Procedural Fairness" as a WTO...

From a speech by Pascal Lamy on the Government Procurement Agreement: The GPA is a paradigm example of a trade opening instrument that also recognizes the need for governance mechanisms �...

More on Gender Discrimination ...

Following up on this post, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld the decision of the Court of International Trade rejecting a claim that imposing different tariffs on men's a...

The Seal Protests Begin

Not sure why I'm on this email list, but here's a message I just received from "Free Trade Kills Animals": ANIMAL CRUELTY OLYMPICS: As Winter Games Begin in Vancouver, Activists Dressed a...

In Defense of Child Labor

From economist Steven Landsburg: As any historian could tell you, no society has every pulled itself out of poverty without putting its children to work. Back in the early 19th century, when...

Exclusive Rights, Monopoly Pro...

Joel had a post a while back where he wondered if there is "anything in TRIPS that would restrict the ability of a state to set price controls on patented pharmaceutical products." He doubted...

2010 SIEL/CUP Prize for an Ess...

A prize has been established by the Society of International Economic Law and Cambridge University Press for the best essay submitted on any topic in any field of international ec...

A Peaceful Expropriation?

From the WSJ: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is seeking to purchase a local unit of France's Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA, a few weeks after he first ordered the expropriation of one o...

The Seal Products Case: The Im...

Some in Canada hope that an international declaration on ethical seal hunting will solve the seal products dispute: In an effort to challenge the European Union's trade ban on Canadian seal ...

The WTO Secretariat Versus Joe...

From a background note by the WTO Secretariat on financial services (not public as far as I can tell, so I'm not going to post the whole thing here): Measures that do not constitute a lim...

Will Trade Aid Haiti?

From the AP: Jordanie Pinquie Rebeca leans forward and guides a piece of suit-jacket wool and its silky lining into a sewing machine, where — bat! bat! bat! — they're bound together to ...

Is This The Trade Policy Chang...

Dan Ikenson of Cato notes the following from Congress Daily: Speaking at the USDA Annual Outlook Forum, [USTR Ron] Kirk said members of Congress “are more open and receptive” to the i...

Do The Olympics Help Establish...

I'm a little out of my comfort zone when posting about things like the "transmission of international norms," but watching the Olympic hockey the other night, I caught a reference to an Olym...

More Obama Trade Talk

From remarks made today: Now, I know that trade policy has been one of those longstanding divides between business and labor, between Democrats and Republicans. To those who would reflexi...

Talking Tobacco at the TBT Com...

From the minutes (Word doc) of the 5-6 November 2009 TBT Committee meeting, here is the discussion of the U.S. and Canadian tobacco laws that affect clove cigarettes and burley tobacco, res...

Free Trade vs. Protectionism: ...

I'm going to step aside for a couple days (well, unless anything really important happens in the trade world, in which case I'll jump back in) so that we can have a good, old-fashioned f...

The Great Trade Debate: Daniel...

Main Street America Benefits from Global Engagement By Daniel Griswold Americans are better off today because of our greater freedom to trade and work with people around the world. Our growin...