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SUMMARY:The use and abuse of trade remedies in a post Liberation Day\, bu
 t not (yet) post-WTO world
DESCRIPTION:The international trade community is scrambling to recover an
 d re-orient itself from the second Trump Administration's chaotic trade 
 policy. It's January 2025 Inauguration Day "America First" Trade Policy\
 , followed by multiple new tariff regimes\, including the 2 April 2025 L
 iberation Day Reciprocity Tariffs\, have altered unimaginably long-estab
 lished multilateral and regional trade laws and norms. No country on ear
 th is untouched by what has happened.\n\nOur expert panel will criticall
 y analyse (in a non-partisan\, non-ad hominem manner) the implications o
 f this policy for producer-exporters\, buyer-importers\, end-consumers\,
  and governments. Does this policy spell the end of the GATT-WTO regime 
 and major FTA relationships\, such as USMCA (NAFTA 2.0)? Or\, is it an o
 pportunity to re-invigorate both\, perhaps sans-America?\n\nOur panel wi
 ll focus on whether\, how\, and why (1) the blatant use of wholesale rem
 edial tariffs that breach fundamental WTO principles and bound tariff ob
 ligations pose an existential threat to the rules based trading system\,
  and (2) such tariffs may\, paradoxically\, catalyse a renewed interest 
 around the world among governments and industry to re-dedicate themselve
 s to GATT-WTO sanctioned trade remedies.\n\nOur panel will address the p
 erception that several high profile WTO disputes about the interpretatio
 n of trade remedy rules\, especially those concerning AD\, CVD\, and saf
 eguards\, are insufficiently effective to deal with the trade practices 
 of some WTO Members — such as industrial policy in China. Is that ration
 ale\, twinned with national security concerns\, a justification for Trum
 pian tariff levies via unilateral trade remedies?\n\nOur panel also will
  concentrate on how the lack of reforms for WTO rules (manifest in the f
 ailed Doha Round) has catalysed the evolution and mutation of trade reme
 dies\, and intensified their deployment\, by key users. Whilst the WTO D
 ispute Settlement Body continues to generate important jurisprudence in 
 defining and clarifying key concepts and parameters\, there has been a s
 urge of new forms of trade remedy tools – countervailing measures on cro
 ss-border subsidies\, proliferation of “anti-circumvention” investigatio
 ns\, “particular market situation" inquiries\, and — of course\, America
 's use of its 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)\,
  Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962\, and Section 30 of the 
 Trade Act of 1974.\n\nAre these legitimate responses to a vastly differe
 nt trade world shaped by ever more powerful multinational corporations a
 nd state-backed industrial policies? Or are they regressive reactions th
 at doom the liberalisation and development objectives of the founders of
  the 1947 GATT and 1995 WTO? Simply put\, are trade remedies in a post-L
 iberation Day world a harbinger of a post-WTO world\, a death knell for 
 the multilateral trading system\, or a welcome fillip for its reform?\n
LOCATION:Room 715 A\, Level 700\, MTCC
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