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“F**k” and the OEDClimate models do not justify even precautionary action
More trade horrors from the US campaign trail
Does trade with China help the poor?
Australia’s export performance—should we be worried?
A ‘magic’ recipe for global food shortages
New Zealand copyright reform
A foolish overreaction
Would ‘critical mass’ agreements in WTO be ‘fissile’ or ‘fusional’?
Obama would have opposed NAFTA, CAFTA and China’s membership of WTO
Solar-cycle link to cloud cover questioned
Statistical analysis of Rhamstorf et al
Symposium: Future of the Multilateral Trade System
Two reasons for caution in climate mitigation
Obama’s policies called “protectionist and silly”
The astonishing Julio Lacarte and 60 years of GATT
Obama: don’t tread on me
The Garnaut Climate Review Interim Report—I’m not convinced
Can WTO control Kyoto climate tariffs?
WTO’s explanation of the 08-02-08 Agriculture text
The cost of the IPCC carbon target
WTO agriculture proposals probably fall short of substantial improvements
World Climate Report
IMF Data Mapper
Best demolition of IPCC case on Climate
US Presidential Candidates’ trade policies
Trade agreements out of reach
Climate Debate Daily
Cultural notes
Activities in 2007
Warwick Commission report on ‘The Way Forward’ for WTO
Innovation in trade agreements
Stern is mistaken to think binding targets will work
Carbon ‘compensation’ tariffs—a real prospect?
“Pester Me”
WTO Tariff Profiles
What the collapse of the Doha talks means for agreement on climate
Inquit Database of SPS notifications
Design of a multilateral regime for emissions trading
World Trade Rule site
Access to the Inquit Standards Database
Climate change concern
WTO and Developing Countries
Why market access matters to developing countries
International impact on food regulations
Global Trade Advocate
Tariff analysis database
Consultation on trade
Entries from the Old weblog
A distant humFTAAP proposal dumped
So long Milton Friedman
Climate change — new approaches to agreement
‘Docking’ RTAs in the APEC region
Countries in the SPS Barrier database
A database of standards barriers
Google wool
Ten observations about the WTO’s first decade
A few days in Hong Kong
Predictions for 2006
WTO seen from the banks of the Zambezi
“WTO: The First Ten Years”
The Hong Kong beauty parade
Crocodile tears on regional free trade
Who wins from textile market liberalization?
Workers’ remittances—bigger than aid flows
Survey of Doha’s costs and benefits
Why is it so hard to get a global trade agreement?
The Hong Kong Conference ‘re-framed’
Where is the “wiggle-room”?
Losses all around from US-China garment deal
Agriculture: reading the entrails
Must do list for agriculture negotiations
Europe’s revised offer on agriculture ‘inadequate’
Testing le d’fi fran’ais on Agriculture
High drama and low politics
Timing is (almost) everything in WTO negotiations
France gives Mandelson the finger—maybe
Russia won’t make it into WTO this year
Beginning of the end for rigged aviation markets?
WTO agriculture market access - the movie
Proposals for farm trade reforms surface
Zoellick waves a big stick
The limits of copyright protection
A couple more inches in the agriculture negotiations
Back to the future: an Australia-Japan FTA
Does Koizumi have a broad reform agenda?
Review of “Global Trade Advocate” in FT
A survey of business consultations on trade
Bean-counting and bad faith
Agriculture in an Australia-Japan FTA
Borders matter
EC-China textile ‘circus’
Optimists on WTO: now there are two of us
Climate change and economic ‘rationalism’
Developing country interest in agriculture negotiations
The thunderer lets fly
Hiccup
The ‘swoosh’ of trade policy
I podcast
Drugs, Spanking and “Rock & Roll"—the trade silly season
Who is to blame for the slow pace in WTO?
Court TV comes to WTO