TradeCraft Podcast

In Episode 22, Marc revisits the leaked US negotiating document and makes the case for a U.S.-China BIT.

In Episode 21, Marc offers updates and new insights into ISDS, the national security exception, and the issue of precedent, while forecasting what these developments will mean for U.S. trade policy in the near/long-term.

In Episode 20, Marc examines the role of precedent in WTO litigation, explains the renewed interest in DSU XXV, and demonstrates why the U.S. is ill-served by undermining the veracity of precedent at the WTO.

In Episode 19, Marc revisits the epic Boeing - Airbus dispute, reviewing the aircraft/non-aircraft cases that have informed the debate and calling on the world's leading aircraft companies to reach a new agreement modeled on the EU – US Agreement on Large Civil Aircraft 1992.

In Episode 18, Marc examines the Generalized System of Preferences’ (GSP) original aims and origins, shows how the WTO exacerbates the program’s most detrimental elements and harms developing countries in the long-term, and defends USTR’s decision to suspend India’s GSP benefits.

In Episode 17, Marc explores biologic drugs, explains why data exclusivity is so important to their production, and challenges the House Democrats' recent push to reopen USMCA over the 10-year data protection term for biologics.

In Episode 16, Marc sorts through the mounting international criticism of USMCA, contemplates how the EU might challenge USMCA at the WTO, and floats a forward-looking trade deal dubbed the "Atlantic Union" that would cover the EU and all NAFTA parties.

In Episode 15, Marc digs into the “U.S. Reciprocal Trade Act," draws out the non-tariff barrier element the media has largely missed, and demonstrates why a bill that is likely “dead on arrival” poses such a serious threat to trade promotion authority and the larger political debate over trade in the U.S.

In Episode 14, Marc examines the "National Security Exception" in light of DS512 (Ukraine-Russia) and a handful of other cases, diving into GATT Article XXI to tease out the framers' intentions and make sense of the "self-judging" debate that will be central to any panel ruling.

In Episode 13, Marc looks at the challenges of global trade through whiskey (tariffs, labeling regimes, and asymmetric excise taxes), muses on the industry's future legal fights (cask strength and small batch), and serves up how trade will affect the "water of life" in the New Year.