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Julia was trying to comment on this post, but neither she nor I could make the comment go through, so I'm putting it here as a separate post:
Technically, the accession protocol should be an independent legal instrument that establishes China's accession to the WTO Agreement, which means it ...
The recently reported Russian prohibition on seal fur imports adds an important element of context for the EU’s dispute with Canada and Norway over its seal products ban. The details of the Russian ban are in this WTO document: http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news11_e/table1_
annual_overview11.xls.
(Russia outlawed its domestic seal hunt some years ago). ...
In the China - Raw Materials appeal (the AB report, circulated today, is here), China argued that "Article XX of the GATT 1994 is available as a defence to China in relation to export duties found to be inconsistent with China's obligations under Paragraph 11.3 of China's Accession ...
Buried in the last paragraph of a NY Times article on the China - Raw Materials case, I saw this:
Western governments have periodically considered filing an international trade case against nations in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for limiting oil exports. But they have refrained from filing, having ...
From Thursday's Republican Presidential nomination debate:
RODRIGUEZ: Yes, good evening.
The U.S. has been largely away in its foreign and trade policy with Latin America. In the meantime, Iran and China have been increasing their influence over an involvement in Latin America through the leftist and left-leaning governments.
What ...
I'm still thinking about the difference between "technical regulation" and "standard" in the U.S. - Tuna dispute. Here's my latest thought. Once again, let me quote the relevant language. The TBT Agreement defines "technical regulation" and "standard" as follows
1. Technical regulation
Document which lays down product characteristics or their related processes and ...
I've been saying this over and over, so I won't say it anymore. Instead, I'll quote Hunter Nottage and Alejandro Sánchez of the ACWL, from a new Global Trade and Customs Journal article:
The US-Tuna II report tackled a range of novel interpretative questions under the TBT Agreement. ...
Via Sallie James of Cato, I see that blogger Matt Yglesias points out the following in President Obama's State of the Union speech:
... After lambasting companies that “ship jobs overseas,” Obama launched into a feel-good anecdote about how “Siemens opened a gas turbine factory in Charlotte and ...
From last night's State of the Union speech by President Obama:
I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don’t play by the rules. We’ve brought trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate ...
From an article on the WTO Aircraft dispute, by law student Ron Kendler, in the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review (article starts on p. 253):
As history shows, this is not the first time that the two parties come to the brink of a trade war over LCA: ...