Trade Notes
Devon WhittleAd hoc notes on trade law and policy, with a focus on Indo-Pacific issues and negotiations, digital trade, and niche legal issues.
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US: What to read on the Supreme Court's IEEPA ruling and what comes next
Last Friday, the Supreme Court handed down its long awaited decision in Learning Resources v Trump, finding that the President cannot use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs.
As expected, the Administ...
2026: What's interesting (to me) in trade in 2026
It’s the start of a new year and, as in the past two years, that’s a good time to take a look at what I think could be interesting in trade in 2026. This year that includes potential progress under regional trade agreements, work on digital...
AfCFTA: Rules of Origin for Digital Products - new approaches in the Digital Trade Protocol's ROO Annex
Last year I wrote about the African Continental Free Trade Agreement’s (AfCFTA) Digital Trade Protocol (the Protocol), which on paper contains some relatively high ambition digital trade rules. This includes a rule that Parties will not imp...
US: Deals with Cambodia and Malaysia - thoughts on services MFN, digital trade triggers, and alignment with US trade measures
Last weekend the United States (US) signed two new trade agreements - one with Cambodia and one with Malaysia. I’m a bit late to comment - with excellent commentary coming earlier this week from Mona Paulsen, Simon Lester, Peter Harrell, We...
India-UK CETA: Interesting things in Services, Digital Trade, and the Security Exception
In an era of “napkin deals”, it’s nice to see some countries still doing the hard work of entering into comprehensive, concrete and legal binding trade agreements. The India and the United Kingdom are the latest to sign an agreement—a Compr...
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