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Leveling The Playing Field: Industrial Policy And Export-Contingent Subsidies In India-Export Related Measures, Timothy Meyer, Swati Dhingra
Leveling The Playing Field: Industrial Policy And Export-Contingent Subsidies In India-Export Related Measures, Timothy Meyer, Swati Dhingra
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In India–Export Related Measures, the United States challenged a range of Indian measures as prohibited export-contingent subsidies, and a WTO panel largely agreed. This article examines the factors at play in the United States’ decision to bring the challenge. At the level of policy, the United States case reflects India’s graduation from the protections afforded developing nations’ export-contingent subsidies under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures. A closer examination, however, shows that India ramped up its export-contingent subsidies just as the SCM Agreement required it to wind those subsidies down. Moreover, the expanded Indian subsidies led to increased import …
The Law And Politics Of Socially Inclusive Trade, Timothy Meyer
The Law And Politics Of Socially Inclusive Trade, Timothy Meyer
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
American ambivalence toward international institutions is nothing new. In his farewell address, George Washington famously warned against foreign entanglements. After World War I, the U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, leaving the United States outside the formal post-war order it helped establish and neutering the new League of Nations. Throughout the late twentieth century, the United States refused to ratify multilateral agreements ranging from the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, to a host of human rights agreements. Nor did the dawn of the twenty-first century change the …
Free Trade, Fair Trade, And Selective Enforcement, Timothy Meyer
Free Trade, Fair Trade, And Selective Enforcement, Timothy Meyer
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The 2016 presidential election was one of the most divisive in recent memory, but it produced a surprising bipartisan consensus. Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders all agreed that U.S. trade agreements should be, but are not, “fair.” Although only achieving broad consensus recently, the critique that U.S. trade agreements are unfair has been around for decades. Since 1992, much of this fairness critique has focused on ensuring that trade liberalization does not undermine non-commercial values, such as environmental protection and labor conditions. Beginning with the negotiation and ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the …
Restoring Trade's Social Contract, Timothy Meyer, Frank J. Garcia
Restoring Trade's Social Contract, Timothy Meyer, Frank J. Garcia
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
As we write, the United States, Canada, and Mexico are renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These talks—and their possible failure—represent the biggest shift in U.S. economic policy in a generation. Since NAFTA came into force in 1994, it has transformed the North American economy. NAFTA has made possible continent-wide supply chains, in industries like the auto sector, that have reduced costs and allowed American automakers to remain competitive; it has opened markets for American agriculture; it has greatly increased the standard of living in Mexico; and it has reduced consumer prices across the continent. Despite these gains, …
Traditional Knowledge & Intellectual Property: A Trips-Compatible Approach, Daniel J. Gervais
Traditional Knowledge & Intellectual Property: A Trips-Compatible Approach, Daniel J. Gervais
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Should intellectual property provide a means for strengthening the range of incentives that local communities need for conserving and developing genetic resources and traditional knowledge (TK)? If so, how and at what cost? To be able to suggest answers, a number of issues must be resolved. They are the focus of the Article. First, one must build, and then cross, a cultural bridge to explain current forms of intellectual property to holders of traditional knowledge, including definitional efforts to determine the nature and depth of the overlap(s). This achieves a dual objective: it allows intellectual property circles to understand and …