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...

When I read about proposals to reduce tariffs on environmental goods and services, my sense is that, assuming trade negotiators can agree on anything these days, this should be a goal that is achievable.  On the other hand, subsidies and...

Economist Simon Johnson writes the following at the NY Times Economix blog: But the mainstream consensus is starting to shift toward the idea that the World Trade Organization (W.T.O.), not the I.M.F., should have jurisdiction over exchange rates. The...

Brian Hindley and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama have published a working paper on "Protectionism Online: Internet Censorship and International Trade Law."  From the abstract: This paper suggests that many WTO member states are legally obliged to permit an...

... is here.  It doesn't do much except identify the measure and the legal provisions.  The provisions at issue are:  TBT Agreement Articles 2.1 and 2.2; GATT Articles I:1, III:4 and XI:1; and Agriculture Agreement Article 4.2.  For DSC subscribers, we...

I've been skimming through Chad Bown's new book "Self-Enforcing Trade: Developing Countries and WTO Dispute Settlement."  One of his key points is that the Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL) is great at its core mission of offering legal advice to...