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. [...]
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. [...]
In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Brian Deese, the former director of the National Economic Council in the Biden administration, calls for a coordinated use of AD/CVDs as
a way to "discourage" China's "anti-market behavior": [...]
Finbarr Bermingham reported on Wednesday, April 23, 2024, that in the recent SCM Committee meeting, there were ‘sharp’ exchanges between the US and China related to Chinese
‘overcapacity’ in key sectors owing to subsidies. China objects to the term ‘overcapacity,’ arguing that there is no clear definition within the WTO treaty [...]
Buried deep in the EU - Palm Oil report (paras. 7.911-7.915, on page 250!) is a nugget on developing country status in the WTO. Malaysia asserts, in the TBT context, that
it is a developing Member. It cites as support that: (a) according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) dataset, it is considered to be a developing [...]
U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai had a couple exchanges at last week's Senate Finance Committee hearing in which she suggested that WTO complaints against China had not been effective,
and for that reason the Biden administration had moved away from filing these complaints. [...]