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Special editors Joel Trachtman, Jan Yves Remy and Dan Esty introduce the feature on #RemakingTradingSystem, developed from research conducted for the Villars Framework 2.0 report on #internationaltrade reform and #sustainabledevelopment academic.oup.com/jiel/article-a…

James Bacchus examines how #trade and #sustainabledevelopment have been intertwined since the 1990s, highlighting new #WTO achievements like the #FisheriesSubsidies agreement and structured discussions on #environmental #sustainability academic.oup.com/jiel/article-a…

I guess today is Liberation Day from an international economic system that produced by far the greatest increase of global prosperity and well-being in human history.

And it is bigger than Smoot-Hawley . . .

📝Statement from Scott Lincicome and Colin Grabow on President Trump's "reciprocal tariffs". #CatoTrade

I was curious about how the non-tariff barrier tariff equivalent was calculated. I should have known it would not be a serious calculation: Reciprocal tariffs: you won’t believe how they came up with the numbers ft.com/content/e025d7… via @ft

Making lemonade from lemons? A tariff crisis is exactly the right time to reform the WTO ft.com/content/a3871b… via @ft

Thoughtful and timely call for a reform process of the outmoded WTO that - inspired by EU qualified majority voting - might modernize the multitllateral trade regime (or what’s left of it) ⁦by Hector R Torres⁩ cc: ⁦Joel Trachtman⁩ on.ft.com/3EaIxSE

Looks like TTIP is back. Can someone remind me who ended TTIP negotiations back in 2016? wsj.com/economy/trade/…

Professors Bhaskar Chakravorti and Joel Trachtman discuss their new book, Defeating Disinformation. They take an interdisciplinary approach to combating the spread of misinformation online, featuring contributions from members of the Fletcher community.

This is one of the most beautiful moments you will ever witness. Sir Nicholas Winton helped 669 children — most of them Jewish — escape the Holocaust. His humanitarian accomplishments would remain unknown and unnoticed by the world for nearly 50 years. Then in 1988 he

New Cato Institute research paper on immigrant and native incarceration rates. We find that the illegal immigrant incarceration rate is about half that of native-born Americans and the legal immigrant rate is about half that again. There is no immigrant crime wave. 🧵. . .

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Every factory on earth, except those located in the United States, can get the inputs they need from China, without paying an additional 145 percent markup.

Annual AfCFTA Hub Conference happening Strathmore Law

Thanks to WorldTradeLaw.net for this very helpful analysis of the UK-US “deal”. Less going on than meets the eye. One thing is clear: the US and UK are not concerned re compliance with WTO law. Blundering back to a world of non-MFN or conditional MFN. Plus “cheap” Rolls Royces.

In exchange for getting nothing from China, we agreed to remove the gun we had pointed at our own head. We will continue to aim the gun at our own foot, however. Masterful negotiating.

A quick analysis of the US Court of International Trade's decision in VOS Selections v. US, striking down the "Liberation Day" tariffs, is here. ielp.worldtradelaw.net/2025/05/initia…

BURRITOS and TACOS.