It has a ready-made template to force rebalancing should talks fail, writes Pascal Lamy

At the Canada Investment Summit, it became clear that the government’s plan to unlock greater critical mineral investment could be accomplished with a simple tax change backed by five provincial and…

Investor-State arbitration (“ISA”) has been criticised for giving investors room to pressure host states.

System a little glitchy but accepting submissions, early users report

A new government portal went live Monday morning, allowing businesses to begin requesting refunds for the blanket tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court.

While U.S. senators lobbied for a Taiwan defense spending increase, the opposition leader said she’s heading to China. Beijing will exploit such clear disunity.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

At a meeting of the Committee on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) on 3 March, WTO members reviewed five regional trade agreements (RTAs) involving Comoros, the European Union, Mozambique, Indonesia, China, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, T�rkiye and the Faroe Islands. They also reviewed other topics relevant to the Committee's work under the Transparency Mechanism for RTAs.

The country will not attract capital until money can move and disputes can end in cash

The country will not attract capital until money can move and disputes can end in cash

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

Le magazine « Sources » d’Arte révèle que des filiales russes du géant français du sucre Sucden, qui emploie Nicolas Sarkozy comme consultant, ont fourni à l’armée russe de nombreux matériels utilisé…

From the Storm-1516 propaganda operation to raids on Musk’s Paris offices, France confronts disinformation, platform abuse, and democratic destabilisation

When the Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing over President Donald Trump's tariffs, a similarly rapid resolution seemed possible. But nearly three months have elapsed since arguments in t...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India and the European Union have reached a free trade agreement to deepen their economic and strategic ties.

Despite the ongoing crisis with the WTO Appellate Body, which has been only partially solved by the creation of the MPIA, 2025 saw a bit of an increase in the filing of requests for consultations under the DSU. Here's a snippet from our WorldTradeLaw.net page where we

French farmers launched a pre-dawn blockade of roads into Paris and several of the city's landmarks in protest against a sweeping trade deal the European Union hopes soon to sign with South American nations as well as other local grievances.

Established trade flows are at risk if the restrictions are fully implemented.

Card players recognize the signs of a “tell,” a player’s demeanor that telegraphs intent for the next hand. Just before Christmas, the Supreme Court in Trump v. Illinois made a procedural ruling that ...

President Donald Trump said Venezuela would relinquish as much as 50 million barrels of oil to the US, worth roughly $2.8 billion at the current market price, announcing the cargoes would be sold with...

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue rulings on Friday as it weighs cases with major implications both nationally and around the world including the legality of President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs.

Oh, so now the Trump administration is worried about the complexity of its tariff polices?

The investment pledge is a pillar of the trade deal between the two countries.

Trump administration seeking ‘unilateral concessions from Canada and Mexico,’ an expert says

President Trump pushed trade levies as a multi-trillion revenue raiser. As the Supreme Court weighs nixing them, he wants to send $450 bln he might not have to consumers, upping deficits and inflation. The idea is bad; further severing legislators from spending plans is worse.

A French court has blocked the export and foreign purchase of a 17th century arithmetic machine invented by Blaise Pascal to help ease the laborious task of calculating taxes.