There's a new FTA digital chapter to analyze, with the EU-New Zealand FTA coming into force soon. Let's take a look at the data flows provisions, with the EU-Japan text in
the back of our minds as a comparison. [...]
There's a new FTA digital chapter to analyze, with the EU-New Zealand FTA coming into force soon. Let's take a look at the data flows provisions, with the EU-Japan text in
the back of our minds as a comparison. [...]
In a Proposed Rule issued last year, the U.S. Commerce Department said it would take into account "nonexistent, weak, or ineffective property (including intellectual property),
human rights, labor, and environmental protections" in various ways as part of its anti-dumping/countervailing duty calculations (surrogate value selection, § 351.408; [...]
This is a guest post by Rohan, a PhD student at the Graduate Institute This is a guest post by Rohan, a PhD student at the Graduate Institute India and the EFTA countries (Iceland,
Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) signed a comprehensive Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) on 10th March, 2024 after a long process of negotiations [...]
In the Section 301 petition recently filed by a group of unions, the petitioners argued that "Section 301 provides an appropriate mechanism for addressing China’s policies
in the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sector." They offer three reasons for this: [...]
U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai spoke recently at a SeedAI event and had some interesting things to say about both online business models and digital trade regulation. I'll
start with a quote that reflects what she has said many times about sorting out domestic digital regulation before the U.S. [...]
This is the abstract of a new paper titled "Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA", which argues that many "white, less educated voters left
the Democratic Party" due to NAFTA: [...]
This is a guest post by several people from the Research Chair on New Challenges of Economic Globalization, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada: Carla Gomez, Ph.D. Researcher;
Antoine Comont, Ph.D. Researcher; Van Anh Ly, Ph.D., Deputy Director of the Research Chair on New Challenges of Economic Globalization; Richard Ouellet, Full Professor [...]
I’ve never understood the expression: they want to have their cake and eat it too. Who on this planet wants to hold onto a piece of cake and not eat it?!? I was at a birthday
party this weekend, and my 5-year-old asked me to hold his plate of delicious cookies ‘n cream cake while he played. [...]
Mexico's initial written submission in the GE Corn USMCA dispute was recently posted. The English public version is here. There's a lot in there and I'm not going to go through
it all in this post. I just thought it was worth noting quickly the exceptions that Mexico invoked. [...]
I've already made these points for the trade policy crowd, but I have now tried to make my pitch on a way forward for the Biden administration on international digital trade
rules slightly more accessible (i.e., without so many blockquotes of international legal texts!). [...]