A useful overview of the new US steel/aluminium tariffs:

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LSE researchers have "identified more than 200 Russian court rulings to nationalize private companies since the start of the invasion of Ukraine in 2022," for violating privatization laws, per
@nataliyavasilyeva.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

A WH fact sheet on the tariffs is now up too.

EU countries are holding talks on large-scale seizures of Russia’s oil tankers in the Baltic Sea, per diplomats and govt officials.

That could mean using international law to grab vessels on environmental or piracy grounds, or imposing new national legislation. www.politico.eu/article/russ...

We've all been busy with US, but there's a lot happening on this side as well.

For example, last week's extension of the Automated Export System (AES) deadline which was originally this month.

If you work in customs you'll be familiar with this saga.

What does it mean?

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Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

If by this Trump means the Reciprocal Tariff Act (www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/age...) then it's not the absolute worst idea but it's still a very bad idea and there's no way the US will do it fairly and comprehensively in any case. on.ft.com/4jRMCeG.

With the flurry of trade announcements, a lot of folks are asking-- Can the President Actually Do That?

We have some answers, alongside a fantastic set of expert videos that would be a great addition to classroom discussions.
www.cfr.org/report/tarif...

Nerdy announcement: for those interested in WTO dispute settlement, this page on “appeals into the void” has been updated. It now includes cases withdrawn from “the void” because solutions have been agreed, and cases whose rulings were adopted without appeal and were therefore never in “the void”

OK, it's well past time to start a thread.

Welcome to Donald Trump's trade policy. Nobody. Knows. Anything.

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Big test on the General Council’s agenda this week is the call from 124 members for the Investment Facilitation Agreement to be Annexed to the WTO Agreement.

Will India alone continue to block the call of 124 others, most of them developing countries?

docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages...