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Impact of the October 2025 US-China Detente On United States-Mexico Trade On October 29, 2025, President Trump and Chinese Communist Party Chairman Li concluded a limited detente in their ongoing trade war. (U.S-China Trade Agreement) This trade deal, largely a return to the status quo in February-April 2025 is scheduled to continue for a year. The compromise was essential to

Impact of the October 2025 US-China Detente On United States-Mexico Trade

14.11.2025 01:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Reviewing the USMCA Pursuant to the review of the USMCA provided for in Article 34.7, USTR has requested comments and is holding a hearing. USTR's comments portal shows 1,515 comments submitted, so a lot of people had things to say!

Reviewing the USMCA

12.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Trump's Cambodia Trade Deal, Arms Exports, and the Role of Non-Trade Concessions In this post, I'm going to talk about some aspects of the recent U.S. trade deal with Cambodia that I haven't heard raised yet, including the following questions: (1) Is the decision to allow U.S. arms exports to Cambodia pursuant to this deal designed

Trump's Cambodia Trade Deal, Arms Exports, and the Role of Non-Trade Concessions

10.11.2025 13:14 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Is Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act a Fall-Back Option for Trump to Impose Tariffs? Without IEEPA authority, as we have all discussed, where there is a will, there is a way. In all likelihood, this way involves the expanded use of other statutory authorities, such as Section 232 of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act and Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. In

Is Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act a Fall-Back Option for Trump to Impose Tariffs?

07.11.2025 16:50 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Roundup of IEEPA Hearing Commentary I listened to today's Supreme Court hearing on the IEEPA tariff cases, but it was clear to me that I am not well-positioned to offer good insights on how the Court might rule. (The transcript is here if anyone wants to give this kind of tea leaf reading

Roundup of IEEPA Hearing Commentary

05.11.2025 23:59 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Economic and National Security Provisions in U.S. Trade Agreements A few weeks ago, I wrote a post cautioning everyone to "Beware the 'Securitization' of Trade Policy." So far, however, it looks like my post has been a big failure, as many people seem to be throwing caution to the wind, and instead of being wary

Economic and National Security Provisions in U.S. Trade Agreements

03.11.2025 12:08 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Trade Dispute Settlement Update for October 2025 In this post, we provide highlights of what has been happening in WTO/FTA/Unilateral dispute settlement in the last month.

Trade Dispute Settlement Update for October 2025

03.11.2025 02:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bound Rates and the Stakes of the Cambodian Trade Deal Simon Lester and Simon Evenett here and here have highlighted legal issues arising from the recently released Agreements with Cambodia and Malaysia, and the joint statements on progress of talks with Viet Nam and Thailand. I’ll focus on the Agreement concluded with Cambodia for this post. This post

Bound Rates and the Stakes of the Cambodian Trade Deal

31.10.2025 14:49 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
The Future of U.S. Big Tech and Social Media (and a Quick Thought on Manufacturing) As the saying goes, it's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, but in a piece I wrote for the Baker Institute, I argue that the social media landscape is going to become smaller and more global, with U.S. big tech control declining. Is this just

The Future of U.S. Big Tech and Social Media (and a Quick Thought on Manufacturing)

30.10.2025 15:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Tracking Foreign Investments in the U.S. Pursuant to Trump's Trade Deals According to President Trump and his administration, one of the most important elements of the trade deals they are negotiating right now is the commitments being made by foreign governments and companies to invest in the U.S. The aggregate figures mentioned in this regard have been as high as

Tracking Foreign Investments in the U.S. Pursuant to Trump's Trade Deals

29.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Some Questions about the Cambodia and Malaysia Trade Deals The White House released the texts of trade agreements with Cambodia and Malaysia today. I have lots of questions about this.

Some Questions about the Cambodia and Malaysia Trade Deals

26.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Why Not Use the Phase One Deal's Enforcement Mechanism? On Friday, USTR initiated a Section 301 investigation of "China’s implementation of the Economic and Trade Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the People’s Republic of China ('Phase One Agreement')." According to USTR, "

Why Not Use the Phase One Deal's Enforcement Mechanism?

26.10.2025 12:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2
International law aspects of the U.S.-Australia critical mineral and rare earth deal Upon reading the US-AUS framework concerning the financing of rare earth mining. While there is very little to go on, I wanted to share some thoughts that connect current assessments with what we know about international investment law and existing institutional development. The Framework commits $1 billion in financing projects

International law aspects of the U.S.-Australia critical mineral and rare earth deal

24.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Grossman and Sykes on Reciprocity in U.S. Trade Relations In a new paper entitled "Commandeering the Customs: An Economic and Legal Perspective on the President’s 'Emergency' Imposition of 'Reciprocal Tariffs'," professors Gene Grossman and Alan Sykes push back on the idea that there is a lack of reciprocity in U.S.

Grossman and Sykes on Reciprocity in U.S. Trade Relations

24.10.2025 11:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
How Should the U.S. Respond To China's Non-Market Practices? In an interview last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent talked about the Trump administration's response to China's non-market practices. Part of this response, as he presents it, has been for the U.S. to pursue a specific version of state-led industrial policy as a defensive measure.

How Should the U.S. Respond To China's Non-Market Practices?

20.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Checking In On the Trump Administration's Drug Price Control Plans Following up on two previous posts I did on this issue, let's see how the Trump administration's plan to push drug prices in the U.S. down while pushing drug prices in other countries up is going. At the end of September, Trump announced "the

Checking In On the Trump Administration's Drug Price Control Plans

16.10.2025 12:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
New Model WTO Program at McGill This is from some enterprising students at McGill University who are setting up a Model WTO program:My name is Sumayya Kheireddine, and together with my co-president Randa Omar, we are two law students at McGill University. Inspired by our experience at the Model World Trade Organization simulation in Switzerland,

New Model WTO Program at McGill

16.10.2025 11:53 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
DSC for Mexico – Atento Servicios (USMCA Panel Determination) The USMCA Chapter 31-A panel determination in the Mexico - Atento Servicios dispute was circulated on August 27, 2025. The Dispute Settlement Commentary for this case is now available on the web site.

DSC for Mexico – Atento Servicios (USMCA Panel Determination)

15.10.2025 19:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Guest Post: Too Big To Fail: The EU Steel Industry, Article XXVIII of the GATT 1994 and the EU’s Free Trade Agreements This is a guest post by trade lawyer Victor Crochet and law professor Weihuan Zhou Steel has long been a contentious topic in international trade, in part because of the numerous jobs it creates and its relevance to downstream industries including those related to national defense. In the European Union

Guest Post: Too Big To Fail: The EU Steel Industry, Article XXVIII of the GATT 1994 and the EU’s Free Trade Agreements

13.10.2025 12:38 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Reclaiming the WTO’s Practical Mission: A Thought Experiment in WTO Reform The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the predecessor of the World Trade Organization (WTO), emerged as a postwar response to economic nationalism. Like the United Nations, which sought to prevent another world war, the GATT aimed to avert the kind of trade wars unleashed by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Reclaiming the WTO’s Practical Mission: A Thought Experiment in WTO Reform

12.10.2025 21:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Discussing Trade Policy on the Internet Shifting the IELP blog to a new platform has led me to do a bit of reflection on the past, present, and future of discussing trade policy online. I am vaguely aware that there were Usenet forum discussions in the 1990s, and there may have been good trade policy conversations

Discussing Trade Policy on the Internet

10.10.2025 12:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Beware the "Securitization" of Trade Policy In recent years, U.S. trade policy has seen a creeping takeover by "security" concerns. The precise scope of these concerns is unclear, but they appear to cover both the traditional aspects of military-related security as well as the vague and amorphous concept of "economic security."

Beware the "Securitization" of Trade Policy

06.10.2025 13:28 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Call for Candidates (Co-)Editor(s)-in-Chief Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL) This is from the JIEL:The 5-year term of the current Co-Editors-in-Chief of JIEL is ending. We have been charged to facilitate the process of electing the next Editor or Co-Editors-in-Chief.  JIEL is the pre-eminent journal in the field of international economic law, published by Oxford University Press (OUP)

Call for Candidates (Co-)Editor(s)-in-Chief Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL)

03.10.2025 11:23 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
CPTPP Roster of Panel Chairs Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is looking for candidates for the roster of CPTPP panel chairs:Expressions of Interest: Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Roster of Panel Chairs The Australian Government is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified individuals to be considered

CPTPP Roster of Panel Chairs

02.10.2025 11:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Guest Post: Putting the “harm” in Pharmaceuticals – evaluating President Trump’s proposal of 100% tariffs This is a guest post from Simon Schropp (BRG and George Washington University) On Friday, September 25, 2025, President Trump – characteristically in a post on Truth Social – announced his intention to impose a 100% tariff on any branded/patented pharmaceutical products imported into the United States, unless the

Guest Post: Putting the “harm” in Pharmaceuticals – evaluating President Trump’s proposal of 100% tariffs

01.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
Trade Dispute Settlement Update for September 2025 In this post, we provide highlights of what has been happening in WTO/FTA/Unilateral dispute settlement in the last month.

Trade Dispute Settlement Update for September 2025

01.10.2025 02:20 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
DSC for EU – Biodiesel CVD (Indonesia) (Panel) The Panel report in European Union - Countervailing Duties on Imports of Biodiesel from Indonesia was circulated on August 22, 2025. The Dispute Settlement Commentary for this case is now available on the web site.

DSC for EU – Biodiesel CVD (Indonesia) (Panel)

25.09.2025 16:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Stephen Miran on Tariffs and National Savings In a speech earlier this week, Stephen Miran, who had been the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and is now a member of the Federal Reserve Board, made his case for a looser monetary policy. One aspect of his argument was that he thinks national savings will be

Stephen Miran on Tariffs and National Savings

24.09.2025 11:44 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
A GOP Tariff Working Group and Post-Trump U.S. Trade Politics The Hill reported last week that a handful of pro-trade Republicans in Congress used some leverage during a vote about voting on tariffs – it's complicated, check out the details at the link for more! – to get a Republican working group on tariffs established:And [Tom] McClintock

A GOP Tariff Working Group and Post-Trump U.S. Trade Politics

21.09.2025 13:26 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Guest Post: China – Enforcement of IP Rights: Navigating Different Conceptions of Territoriality in International Intellectual Property Law This is a guest post from Emmanuel Kolawole Oke, Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh Law School What does it mean to ‘give effect to’ the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement? That is the key question at the centre of the dispute between the EU and China at the WTO

Guest Post: China – Enforcement of IP Rights: Navigating Different Conceptions of Territoriality in International Intellectual Property Law

18.09.2025 12:17 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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