PeterDraper5 A useful Nicolas Lardy corrective to the dominant narrative about China: China: Forced Technology Transfer and Thef..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…HM
@kw_watson In practice, if you want an RTA with the EU you have to deal with GIs. CAN’s CETA model shows one way to..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…UO
@snlester The ideal trade office has beds. The less done the better.
ClimateAudit The “White House assessment” - not “intelligence community assessment” is online here cnbc.com/2018/04/13/rea….
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“We find that since 2012, our estimate of Chinese GDP growth was never appreciably lower, and was in many years hig..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…s9
@snlester posts a nice discussion of the allocative effects of liberalization [worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2018/…] Still, the..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…zo
Not their main point, I guess, but the authors seem to find no fault with CHN policies of which the USA complains w..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…wL
WorldTradeLaw Thoughts on Trump’s Trade Remarks from Today dlvr.it/QPLM5t
@JamesFallows on USA-CHN::theatlantic.com/international/…
What should USA do about CHN IP and ICT/Services access? Tariff threats are a “Southern Wall” solution (provocative..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…eE
On blockchain-conracts: “It’s not trustless, you’re trusting in the software (and your ability to defend yourself i..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…30
“This is a moderate, temperate, proportional approach… This is not a trade war… All we’re trying to do is to pr..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…jJ
Brad_Setser and of course the US cannot easily go from $50b to $150b either - broadening much beyond the current list would lik..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Cg
Will this remain ‘jaw-jaw’ rather than “war-war’ (Churchill)? ‘Tho casually evoked, actual trade-war has been uncom..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…zZ
Brad_Setser Think discussion of trade would benefit from more attention to the impact of the dollar’s 2014-15 appreciation on a..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…qD
Imagine a typical outcome: the S-R trade impacts of a USA/CHN scrap are marginal but visible while L-R -ve welfare..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Bi
Either a quota or a VRA would be a prima-facie violation of Art. XI.1 of GATT, would it not? RTAs are not a get-out..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…ly
GTPAlliance In a deal to revise the #KORUS FTA, Korea gave two concessions in exchange for being exempted from President Trump’..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…aX
JAHillmanGULaw US notifed original KORUS to the WTO March 15, 2012 under GATT Article XXIV. Hard to see how KORUS 2.0 (or whateve..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…NJ
@Brad_Setser You’re right Brad (& @vsualst). Turns out I was using data derived from US-CHN imbalances in final goo..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…ol
taniavoon US launches #WTO #IP dispute against China, as promised (26 March). A rare welcome sign of continuing US faith in t..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…AP
“…Capital generally flows toward relatively young and rapidly growing economies [USA & AU among others]. Countrie..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…7O
eashimp @pwgallagher Quotas for non ag products. Have fun with verification, man who has never held a real trade job.
Steel/Aluminum exemptions will be TQs? VRAs? Narvarro: “For all countries there has to be a quota. If you don’t put..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…ZI
CatoTrade Is skepticism towards the WTO justified? In almost all WTO complaints brought against China, complainants have made..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…HU