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Ambassador Tim Groser, New Zealand’s dynamic minister of trade, gave two important speeches this week. The speeches are posted at http://www.beehive.govt.nz/minister/tim+groser.
The first...
A "provisional" agreement has been reached between the U.S. and EU (I'm not sure what Canada's views on all of this are). Sounds like they still have some hard issues to deal with, though.
From...
Fair to say, Obama’s trade policy has largely been indiscernible during his first 100 days in the Oval Office. It appears that the exigency from the financial crisis and his original anti-trade...
From para. 7.498 of the Colombia - Ports of Entry WTO panel decision, circulated Monday: In any cases where a measure may violate a particular provision of the WTO Agreements, a number of...
A couple months again, Bryan noted that press reports to the contrary, perhaps the U.S. did not actually do very well in the China - IPRs dispute. An Economist article from this week suggests that...
It has been reported that India and China jointly sponsored a proposal in the WTO advocating more representation of staff members from developing countries in the WTO Secretariat. While it is understandable that China would want more of its citizens on...
GATT Article XV:4 states in part: shall not, by exchange action, frustrate* the intent of the provisions of this Agreement ...
Thus, Article XV:4 refers to the "intent of the provisions of this Agreement." One provision of "this Agrement" (that is,...
From Christoph Herrmann, in the European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2010, an article entitled "Don Yuan: China’s “Selfish” Exchange Rate Policy and International Economic Law."
From the intro: "This paper will deal with the...
I'm often surprised by how much support there is for "Buy National" provisions (see, e.g., the proposal of many U.S. Democratic house members here). WTO DG Pascal Lamy, in his 2009 annual report on trade and trade-related developments, discusses the...
From Dean Baker (via Todd Tucker):
... the US doesn't have to "pressure" China to boost the yuan. Contrary to what you may have read in the paper, Washington is not helpless in this story.
Just as China can set a value of its currency against the...
JUSTITIA INSTITUTIONALA sau alternativa - ARBITRAJUL
Justitia Institutionala trebuie sa pornesca de la Justitia din Societate, respectiv de la realitate, iar "Realitatea" ne cere o alterantiva - noi va propunem "Arbitrajul" , ca forma de rezolvare rapida si confidentiala a litigiilor.
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