Law Roundtable

In the Office of the General Counsel:

The Office of the General Counsel at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Executive Office of the President, is seeking an attorney with experience in international trade law, trade litigation and negotiation.

Incumbent provides legal support for USTR personnel ...

The Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law is pleased to hold the International Law Association (ILA) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference from May 29 to June 1, 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan. The theme of the conference will be Contemporary International Law Issues in the Asia Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges. Paper and panel ...

Speaking of export subsidies, the U.S. Department of Commerce has rejected an argument that China's currency undervaluation should be considered an export subsidy under U.S. countervailing duty law:

Regarding Petitioners’ allegation that China’s currency regime confers a de jure specific export subsidy, the cited foreign exchange rules provide an indication ...

In this post, I'm going to explain what I meant in the last post.  No doubt a few people saw what I was getting at.  But I know that, with the beginning of the academic year, a lot of new students are reading this blog, and there's a good ...

In its other appellant submission in the EC - Aircraft case, the U.S. criticizes certain aspects of the Panel's reasoning under the SCM Agreement Article 3.1(a) export contingency standard.  In particular, the U.S. disagrees with what it says is the Panel's consideration of subjective motivations as a required element ...

How do you interpret a colon?  This is from the EC - IT Products panel report:

The relevance of the colon to an understanding of the terms in the concession

Arguments of the parties

7.862 Japan and Chinese Taipei consider the relevance of the use of the colon in their assessment ...

Here's something from the EC - IT Products case that I'm still thinking through.  The basic issue is this.  The EC is imposing a duty that the Panel found is in excess of its bound rate.  Thus, there is a violation of Article II:1(b), as the duty is in excess of ...

Well, sort of.  Here's what Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch says in relation to the Mexico Trucking dispute:

This is from the EC - IT Products panel:

7.421 Both the complainants and the European Communities have put forward competing interpretations of the motivations and effects of these modifications which, not surprisingly, support their respective positions regarding the key interpretative issue described above.

When a country exports goods, it doesn't generally care what happens to those goods once they are sent abroad.  There may be some exceptions:  treatment of animals; nuclear materials; perhaps the use of guns and other weapons.  But for the most part, this is not a big concern.

By contrast, when you ...