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WTO trade talks reach crucial point, but fate of insurance and other services unclear

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • Global, USA
  • -
  • March 17 2008

Global negotiations to liberalize trade are accelerating at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, as its 150 member countries try to reach a deal to reduce agriculture subsidies and tariffs on manufactured goods

Brazil cotton important WTO decision makes trade retaliation operational

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • Brazil, Global, USA
  • -
  • September 28 2009

In an arbitration panel decision handed down on 31 August 2009, the World Trade Organization (WTO) clarified how and to what extent the industries of a WTO Member government may be targeted for countermeasures when the government has provided WTO-illegal subsidies

Tribunal places heavy burden on proving standard of fair and equitable treatment under NAFTA

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • October 5 2009

An UNCITRAL tribunal dismissed claims of expropriation and breach of fair and equitable treatment (FET) protection under NAFTA

Doha talks continue to go round in circles

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • October 31 2007

Despite attempts, on 25 September 2007, by world leaders to signal that a long-awaited global trade deal could soon be attainable, the Doha Round trade talks seem no closer to progressing past years of deadlock and discord

Subsidies and other barriers to trade in the biofuel sector

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Global, USA
  • -
  • January 8 2008

Biofuels (ie, ethanol and biodiesel) are a substitute for traditional fossil fuels and are viewed as a means of reducing carbon emissions and thereby contributing to the fight against climate change

How a U.S. climate change bill could lead to trouble at the WTO

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • Global, USA
  • -
  • March 26 2009

As if legal efforts to address climate change weren’t complicated enough, a recently released study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics warns that U.S. Congressional efforts to reduce climate change could run afoul of international trade rules under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), leading to years of legal disputes in the World Trade Organization

The future of international trade cooperation

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • April 9 2009

The entire world seems euphoric at the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States and many hope that he will facilitate renewed global collaboration and end recent trends towards U.S. isolationism

WTO establishes panel to investigate COOL requirements

  • White & Case LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • December 4 2009

On November 19, 2009, the WTO dispute settlement body (DSB) granted Canada’s second request to establish a panel to determine whether US country-of-origin labeling (COOL) rules comply with international trade obligations

Indonesia challenges U.S. tobacco law as violation of WTO rules

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • August 26 2009

A new U.S. tobacco law that prohibits the production or sale of cigarettes containing certain additives, such as clove, is being challenged at the World Trade Organization (WTO) by Indonesia, which claims that the new restrictions violate U.S. trade obligations

United States and others propose to eliminate customs duties on “environmental goods”

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • June 1 2010

As the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen failed to produce a comprehensive global environmental agreement, many countries, including the United States, are promoting less sweeping environmental initiatives upon which consensus may be reached more easily

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