“How to deal with China?” This is the biggest question confronting US trade policy, or we can even say its entire foreign policy, today. Over the past few years, the debate on this important issue has benefited from the contributions from many trade law scholars, with those by Wu, Hillman,...

There are no longer plenty of fish in the sea. One-third of global fish stocks are overfished beyond biologically sustainable levels, and fishing subsidies are the primary culprit. Such subsidies incentivize overfishing, foster illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and dangerously...

The Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) has received much attention for its unique approach to special and differential treatment, especially the ability of developing countries to self-designate their implementation periods and technical assistance needs. However, the Agreement contains other...

This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...

International climate targets have far-reaching implications for all areas of the economy and life, including trade policy. To reach the target of the Paris Agreement, it may be necessary to link trade and environmental policy, whereby one way of linking the two policy areas is to include...