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Important Speeches by Tim Groser

May 15, 2009
Ambassador Tim Groser, New Zealand’s dynamic minister of trade, gave two important speeches this week. The speeches are posted at http://www.beehive.govt.nz/minister/tim+groser. The first...

Progress in The Beef Hormones Dispute

May 6, 2009
A "provisional" agreement has been reached between the U.S. and EU (I'm not sure what Canada's views on all of this are). Sounds like they still have some hard issues to deal with, though. From...

Obama's trade policy on the 100th day: then and now

May 2, 2009
Fair to say, Obama’s trade policy has largely been indiscernible during his first 100 days in the Oval Office. It appears that the exigency from the financial crisis and his original anti-trade...

The Scope of GATT Article XX

Apr 30, 2009
From para. 7.498 of the Colombia - Ports of Entry WTO panel decision, circulated Monday: In any cases where a measure may violate a particular provision of the WTO Agreements, a number of...

The Future of China's IP Protection

Apr 27, 2009
A couple months again, Bryan noted that press reports to the contrary, perhaps the U.S. did not actually do very well in the China - IPRs dispute. An Economist article from this week suggests that...

Live Blog: Kirk, Comfort and Cotton

Dec 2, 2009
The operative part of the concluding summary of the MC Chair indicates continued senior official talks during the first quarter of 2010, leading to a "stock-taking" meeting in March, in which it will be assessed whether an agreement can be reached at...

Free Trade and the NBA

Dec 2, 2009
Senator Chuck Schumer is concerned with the NBA dressing its players in foreign gear.  It's gotta be the shoes, right?  Actually, it's the uniforms: A U.S. senator from New York doesn't want NBA players taking to the court wearing jerseys made in...

The WTO's "Political Problem"

Dec 2, 2009
Alan Beattie of the FT assesses the Doha impasse this way: It’s not the global mechanisms that are wonky. It’s the weakness of the national governments pulling the levers. This would be as true of a plurilateral trade deal as of a multilateral, of...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement

Dec 2, 2009
The recent announcement by President Obama raised hopes again that the United States will start negotiations to accede to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). While such announcement is actually over-due, it is still not a bad news. However. the more...

Live Blog: Exit Strategy Talk -- Doha Light or "Functional UNCTAD"?

Dec 1, 2009
There are diverging views on what the goal of this Ministerial actually is. One possibility, that seems to be the likely one, is that the objective is not to chart a future course for the Doha caravan, but rather to figure out how to get off. Even...




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  JUSTITIA INSTITUTIONALA sau alternativa - ARBITRAJUL Justitia Institutionala trebuie sa pornesca de la Justitia din Societate, respectiv de la realitate, iar "Realitatea" ne cere o alterantiva - noi va propunem "Arbitrajul" , ca forma de rezolvare rapida si confidentiala a litigiilor. http://activitatidejustit ie.blogspot.com/ http://arbitraj.blogspot. com/
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