The trade agreement concluded between the USA and Japan is not in conformity with current WTO law. Bilateral agreements between individual member countries are permitted, but only if they cover substantially all the trade. However, the US and Japan...

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has cleared US proposals of countervailing tariffs against European subsidies to Airbus. The US tariffs turn out to be relatively modest, but the US could raise them to up to 100 percent. According to researchers at...

January 1, 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the World Trade Organization. Whether it is looking forward to a rosy future is however uncertain. Their largest members, the US and China escalate their tariff disputes outside the...

The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only unclear but...

The rapid diffusion of the internet and electronic commerce changes the way business and international trade take place. The new economy poses new challenges to the international regulatory framework, since small distortions due to differing sets of...

The Millennium Round of MTNs, which was stillborn in Seattle, was supposed to have initiated wide-sweeping changes to the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been forthcoming...

A Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) has been proposed in the mid-1990s to revitalize the economic and political ties between the United States and the European Union. This paper discusses the expected economic gains from such a free trade area...

As of October 18th, 2019 the United States will be able to impose tariffs on European aircrafts and a variety of consumer goods including whiskey and wine. This would lead to damages of up to 1.6 Bn. Euro in the member states of the EU. The United...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 128: The World Trade Organization (WTO) has authorized the Unites States to impose tariffs on goods from the European Union with a combined import value of Euro 5-8 bn.