Joe Biden’s choice for National Security Adviser is Jake Sullivan. Sullivan was on Fareed Zakaria’s TV show yesterday, and they had the following exchange
The government of Austria has contributed EUR 200,000 (CHF 215,000) in 2021 to the Global Trust Fund (GTF) dedicated to supporting the new phase of the WTO Chairs Programme. The objective of this initiative is to help academic institutions in developing countries and least developed countries (LDCs) build their expertise in trade policy, international trade economics, international relations and international economic law
In a recent post discussing the NAFTA/USMCA provision relating to conditional exclusion of FTA partners from global safeguards under the WTO, I stated that “this type of exclusion is unique to a handful of US FTAs”. Count on Amy Porges to catch me in a gross error
Estonia has contributed EUR 20,000 (CHF 22,000) in 2021 to enhance the trading capacities of developing countries and least-developed countries (LDCs)
This post addresses an Award of 21 December 2020 in Cairn Energy v India, a case under the UK–India BIT. The headline outcome of the Award is that India’s retroactive application of taxation legislation, that subsequently imposed taxes on the transactions of the claimants that were not taxable at the time the transactions occurred, constituted a violation of the fair and equitable treatment (FET) standard in the BIT.
With the Trump administration now finished, we are in the period where people will be spinning Trump’s time in office into the narrative they want to create. On trade policy, Trump’s U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer spent some of his final weeks in office trying to create a favorable narrative with the talks and interviews he gave.
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The EU has published a number of parts of the text of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI).