Victor Crochet

Dec 27, 2024 | ejiltalk.org | Victor Crochet

The Rise of Outbound Investment Screening: A Vacuum in International Economic Law – EJIL: Talk!

Feb 25, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Ken Heydon |Victor Crochet |Weihuan Zhou |Troy Stangarone

If re-elected, Donald Trump has promised a 10 per cent tariff on all goods coming into the United States — a tax on imports — and a 60 per cent tariff on Chinese goods. That’s not quite the shock to the system of the US Smoot-Hawley tariffs of close to 20 per cent that exacerbated and prolonged the Great Depression in the 1930s, but it’s very close. What made things worse in the 1930s was the retaliation from much of the rest of the world, ratcheting up tariffs and restrictions on global trade.

Feb 25, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Ken Heydon |Victor Crochet |Weihuan Zhou |Troy Stangarone

The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) 13th Ministerial Conference takes place in Abu Dhabi on 26–29 February. It is expected to include a deal providing transparency and predictability in electronic commerce, endorse an agreement on investment facilitation for development and admit two least developed countries, Timor Leste and the Comoros, as WTO members. Though welcome, these are modest expectations.

Feb 24, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Victor Crochet |Weihuan Zhou |Troy Stangarone |Xirui Li

Fragmentation in global trade is not new. With the slow development of multilateral trade rules at the World Trade Organization (WTO), governments have turned to free trade agreements (FTAs). As of 2023, almost 600 bilateral and regional trade agreements have been notified to the WTO, leading to growing fragmentation in trade rules, business activities and international relations. But until recently, trade dispute settlements have predominantly remained within the WTO.

Jul 18, 2023 | ejiltalk.org | Victor Crochet |Weihuan Zhou

Sovereign White Knights: Defensive State-Capitalism as a Gate Keeper of (EU) Economic Security? – EJIL: Talk!