This is a guest post from Goran Dominioni, Assistant Professor, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University This is a guest post from Goran Dominioni, Assistant
Professor, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University [...]
This is a guest post from Goran Dominioni, Assistant Professor, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University This is a guest post from Goran Dominioni, Assistant
Professor, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University [...]
Stanford law prof Alan Sykes has posted a new paper entitled "The Utility of Appellate Review at the WTO and Its Optimal Structure." One part of the paper that I found particularly
interesting was his call for any appeals body to have discretion over what appeals to hear: [...]
This is a guest post from Luca Rubini, Senior Research Fellow in International Law, University of Turin This is a guest post from Luca Rubini, Senior Research Fellow in International
Law, University of Turin [...]
At a press briefing with Ambassador Tai on the announcement that the Biden administration would maintain the Section 301 tariffs on China and add tariffs on a few additional
products, a reporter asked the following question regarding U.S. vs. Chinese electric vehicle subsidies: [...]
If you are a trade remedies expert contemplating a career change, here's a great opportunity: The Secretariat of the WTO is seeking to fill a position of Director to lead the
Rules Division. [...]
By now, many will have heard that the first panel constituted under the USMCA Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRM) recently completed its determination as to whether there
has been a Denial of Rights at the San Martín mine. At the moment, we are waiting for the public release of the panel’s findings. [...]
Here is an excerpt from the U.S. statement at the last DSB meeting, in which it discusses the EU - Palm Oil panel's interpretation of non-discrimination in TBT Agreement Article
2.1: [...]
In its rebuttal submission in the Mexico - GE Corn USMCA dispute, the U.S. has set out a non-violation nullification or impairment claim as an alternative to its violation
claims (the U.S. did not elucidate the non-violation claim in its initial written submission, but it did indicate in fn. [...]
In a recent Foreign Policy piece, economist Joe Stiglitz makes several references to WTO rules "forbidding" industrial subsidies: The current moment is a good illustration.
It is the product of longstanding beliefs and power relations. Under this system, industrial subsidies were a no-no, forbidden (so it was thought) not just by World [...]
Here's an exchange between Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) and U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing in mid-April: Beyer: I, with a number of my colleagues
here, visited the WTO a couple of years ago, in the midst of all the ongoing multi-decade fights over the Appellate Body. [...]