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Questions and Responses in DS623 on Non-Market Policies and the Relationship of GATT Exceptions to the SCM Agreement

June 13, 2025

The U.S. has posted its responses to the panel’s questions in U.S. – IRA (China) (DS623). I want to highlight two specific questions/responses: One relates to the meaning of “non-market” policies and practices, and the other relates to the availability

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JIEL Junior Faculty Forum 2025 Call for Papers

By Angelo Carosio

June 6, 2025

The Journal of International Economic Law is delighted to announce the fifth annual JIEL Junior Faculty Forum. The JIEL JFF brings together early career scholars (including junior faculty, visiting assistant professors, PhD candidates, post-doctoral fellows, etc.) working in the field

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How Will the Trump Administration Approach the WTO and WTO Dispute Settlement?

By Angelo Carosio

June 5, 2025

At a hearing on Tuesday to consider the nomination of Joseph Barloon to be the Deputy U.S. Trade Representative in Geneva (and Ambassador to the WTO), there were some questions about the Trump administration’s views of the WTO in general,

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MPIA Update: A New Party Joins and Four New Arbitrators are Appointed

By Angelo Carosio

June 3, 2025

I mentioned here that Paraguay had joined the MPIA in early May. Since then, Malaysia has joined too, bringing us to 29 parties (counting the EU and its 27 member states as one). But the bigger news is that there

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Guest Post: Initial Thoughts on the IEEPA Tariff Rulings

By Angelo Carosio

June 1, 2025

This is a guest post by Perry Bechky, a partner at Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP and a visiting scholar at Seattle University School of Law. On Wednesday and Thursday, two courts ruled that President Trump lacked the statutory

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Will the Trump Administration Revisit ISDS?

By Angelo Carosio

June 1, 2025

Back during Joe Biden’s presidency, there were some hints that the Biden administration might be willing to push for the removal of ISDS from existing trade agreements and investment treaties. Members of Congress pressed then-U.S. Trade Rep. Katherine Tai on

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Initial thoughts on V.O.S. Selections v. U.S. (Court of International Trade per curiam, 5/28/25)

By Angelo Carosio

May 29, 2025

In a clear and decisive opinion, the CIT has struck down as unlawful the tariffs imposed by President Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) (i) worldwide to “retaliate” for purported balance of trade reasons against alleged

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CIT grants IEEPA Plaintiffs’ MSJ; Vacates and permanently enjoins all IEEPA tariffs

By Angelo Carosio

May 28, 2025

A unanimous panel (Katzmann, Reif, Restani) of the Court of International Trade has granted Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and injunctive relief in the V.O.S. Selections et al. and State of Oregon et al. challenges to all three sets of

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Fighting the Trade Narratives: “Unfettered” Liberalization and “Reckless and Dogmatic” Free Trade

By Angelo Carosio

May 26, 2025

This is my second post about the questions for the record with U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer from his April 8 Senate Finance Committee testimony. Senator Warren (D-MA) asked this question: In the last recession, 700,000 American workers lost their

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A Few Questions and Answers (and Then More Questions) about Trump’s Trade Deals

By Angelo Carosio

May 23, 2025

As part of the questions for the record for U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer after he testified before the Senate Finance Committee on April 8, there was an interesting exchange between Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Greer related to any

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