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Trade
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International Law Prof Blog
European Community Settles the Longstanding WTO Banana Dispute
World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy today applauded the successful efforts of Latin American banana producing nations, the United States and the European Union to end their long running…
International Law Prof Blog
International Law at the United Nations
The U.N. General Assembly Sixth Committee will meet on Monday, October 5, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. (in the Trusteeship Council Chamber of the U.N. Headquarters in New York). The provisional…
International Economic Law and Policy Blog
The Tires Tariffs: The Impact of Trade Policy on Stock Market Prices
Because of the Chinese tire tariffs, the share price of U.S. producers is up: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., the largest U.S. tiremakers, rose…
International Economic Law and Policy Blog
Tariff Preferences and Drug Policies
This all sounds familiar. A developed country uses illegal drug production/trafficking as a criterion for deciding which countries to include in a tariff preference program. The DS246 EC - Tariff…
International Law Prof Blog
Buy Chinese?
The Chinese appear to have borrowed a page from the U.S. play book. According to news reports, the 4 trillion yuan Chinese financial stimulus package requires that all goods and services for…
International Law Prof Blog
Arctic Council Postpones EU’s Application for Observer Status
On Wednesday of this week, the Arctic Council postponed consideration of the application of the European Union (EU) for permanent observer status due to a tiff over an EU ban on seal products. Canada advocated…
International Law Prof Blog
Further Easing of US Sanctions on Cuba
As expected, the Obama Administration announced today that it is further easing trade and travel restrictions on Cuba by lifting restrictions on the amount of money that can be sent…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Conference: Work & Inequality in the Global Economy
Work & Inequality in the Global EconomyUniversity of California, Los AngelesOctober 7-9, 2009Proposals due April 30, 2009Here's a description:We live in an increasingly globalized economy. Contemporary globalization has increased three…
International Law Prof Blog
Updates from the ASIL Meetings in Washington, DC
With the new Obama Administration in office, including the confirmation of the new US Trade Representative, Ron Kirk, as well as the nomination of Yale Dean Harold Koh to head the Office of Legal Advisor,…
International Law Prof Blog
Litigation Before the U.S. International Trade Commission
The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law (“RIPL”) has just published a special symposium issue on Litigation Before the International Trade Commission. You can view this issue by clicking…