International Economic Law and Policy
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Author: Simon Lester co-owns WorldTradeLaw.net; Joel Trachtman is a law professor at Tufts University; Mark Benitah is a law professor at the University of Quebec, in Canada; Steve Charnovitz is an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School; Sungjoon Cho is an assistant professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law; Henry Gao is an assistant law professor at the University of Hong Kong; and Bryan Mercurio is a senior lecturer on the law faculty of the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
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Recent Posts from International Economic Law and Policy
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The FT on Carbon Tariffs
Here's an excellent, balanced look at the carbon tariff issue from the Financial Times. A short excerpt: Some trade lawyers point out that past WTO decisions have permitted governments to restrict trade in order to…
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Carbon Tariffs "Are" WTO-Legal Versus Carbon Tariffs "Can Be" WTO-Legal
In a post entitled "Carbon tariffs — the legal aspects," Paul Krugman quotes Joost Pauwelyn as saying: In sum, if carefully calibrated along the lines suggested above, carbon equalization measures at the border, imposed on…
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A Bold Proposal on Anti-Dumping
From a letter to the FT by Professors Robert McGee and Yeomin Yoon: President Obama should be audacious enough to proclaim the following: In a free enterprise economic system, domestic producers have no inherent claim…
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Tariff Preferences and Drug Policies
This all sounds familiar. A developed country uses illegal drug production/trafficking as a criterion for deciding which countries to include in a tariff preference program. The DS246 EC - Tariff Preferences case, brought by India?…
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China Does Not Like Carbon Tariffs
Reuters reports: Proposals to impose "carbon tariffs" on imported products will violate the rules of the World Trade Organization as well as the spirit of the Kyoto Protocol, China's Ministry of Commerce said. In a…
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Catfish Inspection: A Difficult Trade Issue
As this AP article explains, there is a long history of trade disputes involving the U.S. catfish industry and its Vietnamese competitors, including anti-dumping duties and labelling regulations. The latest chapter is particularly interesting, though,…
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China's PC Software Filtering Delayed
Bloomberg reports: China postponed tomorrow’s deadline for personal-computer makers to include a state-backed anti- pornography software on new PCs after U.S. officials and business groups urged it to scrap the rule
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Twittering About Trade Law
I can't figure out what to make of Twitter. Is this really the next big thing? In case it is, a little while ago I went ahead and used the RSS feeds for our news…
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PC Filtering: The Investment Issues
Over at the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, Luke Peterson talks about the investment aspects of the Chinese PC filtering issue. He notes: One critical question in any claims arising out of this internet-filtering software dispute would…
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Obama on Carbon Tariffs
From a NY Times interview: Q. One of the provisions that got added very late to this bill that senators had expressed some reservations about was the one that puts tariffs on goods imported from…