Announcing: Conference/webinar organized by the International Law Association Committee on ADR in International Law: “Resolving International Trade Disputes through ADR: Ambitions, Possibilities, Practicalities” - 28 May 2025 | 14:00 CET, Online (Zoom): Register here: lnkd.in/dtC224RM
Standoff at the four-way stop sign: late-night diplomacy at the fourth session of negotiations (INC-4) on the global treaty to end #plasticpollution
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#ACCTS are out! www.admin.ch/gov/en/start...
Can’t wait to read list through the texts!! 🧐🧐🧐 FFSR looks very promising!
New Zealand has triggered mandatory consultations with Canada following its success in its CPTPP Dairy dispute last year. Says not just about the trade itself but also principle of abiding by agreements www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
@Reuters: New Zealand escalates dairy trade dispute with Canada https://t.co/jMXgFmTy8S
New Zealand has requested negotiations under art 28.20 in its CPTPP dairy dispute with 🇨🇦
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...
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Is economic security so very new to the multilateral trading system? No. But does it present challenges to WTO norms? Yes.
ICYMI: My new paper of historical case studies to evaluate ES in the early Cold War, plus a framework for rethinking multilateral governance.
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Screenshot of the book cover, John Croome's Reshaping the World Trading System, a History of the Uruguay Round
Sad to hear ex-colleague John Croome died on July 20, aged 91. His long career led him to GATT/WTO.
“Reshaping the World Trading System” is an easy-to-read account of how the WTO and its agreements were negotiated in the 1986–94 Uruguay Round
Press release www.wto.org/english/news...
WTO Secretariat is hiring a Chief for its newly created Digital Trade and Frontier Technologies Unit - to lead, co-ordinate, & oversee cross-divisional work on digital aspects of trade in goods & services, IP rights & new technologies. Aug 8 deadline. wto.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
www.trademinister.gov.au/minister/don... Australia and CHina resolve WTO dispute DS602 with China's withdrawal of antidumping duties on March 29; coincidentally Australia has announced it will accept adoption of the WTO panel report in DS603
USTR Tai's statement at Working Session on Dispute Settlement Reform at WTO Ministerial Feb. 29
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“PSH” was again the issue that deadlocked WTO trade ministers’ on agriculture in Abu Dhabi
What is “PSH”?
❌ “State policies on food procurement aimed at ensuring food security” as one news agency calls it?
No.
It’s about large subsidies in stockpiling
tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2024/02/25/s...
Screenshot of the list of countries that not ratified the 2022 agreement, available on the linked page
Yesterday, the final day of the #WTO Ministerial Conference #WTOMC13AbuDhabi, South Africa ratified the 2022 (incomplete) #FisheriesSubsidies Agreement.
So the target of 110 by the conference was missed by 39.
92 WTO members still have not ratified it
tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2023/06/07/w...
Screenshot of the whole of the linked document
In wonder. Is this the first ever hypothetical draft decision sent to a WTO ministerial conference from a WTO committee?
"... a basis for consideration for Members, in the event they wish to ..."
Someone will know ...
docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages...
EU trade policy - EU extends existing law on trade preferences for developing countries, due to European Parliament objections to linking the preferences to readmission of migrants
New Year’s panel discussion!
We will explore whether the 🇪🇺 & 🇺🇸 can come together to help shape a new consensus on industrial subsidies in the global trading system
Speakers: Elīna Melngaile, @amyp.bsky.social , Bernd Lange and @davidheniguk.bsky.social
Info here: borderlex.net/2023/11/14/p...
We are hosting a New Year’s panel discussion!
'Global subsidies war: Can the EU and US forge a new WTO consensus'
When: 23 Jan @ 18.00
Where: Brussels
This is a free event*, to book your place, email: events@borderlex.net
Programme & speaker info👇 borderlex.net/2023/11/14/p...
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Practice guide for trade policy
Practice guide for trade policy, based on the genius template at practice-guide.glitch.me. h/t @espiers.bsky.social
My first blue #tradeXpresso:
The Art of the Mini-Deals: The Invisible Part of EU Trade Policy.
There is a lot more going on than what meets the eye when it comes to EU trade policy!
Curious to see all these invisible mini-deals now? Check this ECIPE paper:
ecipe.org/publications...
Very exciting news with the announcement of the launch of a new School of Government & Policy dedicated to preparing the next generation of leaders.
We are delighted that the new school will be co-located at SAIS, and that one of its major focus areas will be on tech policy.
lnkd.in/eFM_tCKF
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