Overview
Our research project for this 2022-2024 period covers following issues;
- Trade and Investment Rules in this era of increasing concern for economic security: Supply chain resilience and trade and investment rules (semiconductors, in particular); Legal and policy frameworks to manage the energy and food crisis caused by the Ukraine crisis; export control of emerging technologies and strategic products; New security-oriented economic frameworks (IPEF, Quad, TTC)
- Development and expansion of CPTPP: Legal and policy issues on accession of China; Korea and Taiwan; Connecting EU to CPTPP
- Development of multilateral rules on digital trade: WTO; Advanced rules in recent FTAs/EPAs; WTO negotiation on e-commerce, specific issues regarding DFFT (privacy and cyber security, in particular); international frameworks of AI governance; other related issues including multilateral digital taxation and competition law and policy for digital platforms.
- Studies on WTO case law and dispute settlement procedure: review of recent WTO cases; the Appellate Body crisis; Interim appeal systems; cases and dispute settlement procedures in FTAs/EPAs (CPTPP, USMCA)
August 1, 2022 - January 31, 2025
(During the research project period, the research activity period is set from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2024, and the data usage reporting period is set from August 1, 2024 to January 31, 2025.)
Major Research Results
2024
RIETI Discussion Papers
- 24-E-072
"Evaluation of the Impacts of Trade Restrictions between China and Japan" (TAKEDA Shiro, HIGASHIDA Keisaku and YOMOGIDA Morihiro) - 25-J-005
"An Equilibrium Point between Regulations and Innovation Found in the Chinese Regulation of Generative Artificial Intelligence: A study towards grasping China’s AI strategy" (KAWASHIMA Fujio) - 25-J-003
"Industrial Policy and International Commercial Rules: How to deal with China’s overcapacity phenomenon" (WATANABE Mariko) - 25-J-001
"U.S. Semiconductor Export Restrictions on China and the Scope of the WTO Security Exception: “Small yard, high fence” or “as large of a lead as possible”?" (KAWASE Tsuyoshi) - 24-J-021
"Taiwan’s Regulations on Economic Exchanges with China and China’s Responses: Implications for China and Taiwan’s accession to the CPTPP" (ITO Shingo and KAWAKAMI Momoko) - 24-J-020
"Are Digital Services Taxes Consistent with Double Tax Conventions? A critical assessment of a comment by Philip Baker" (FUCHI Keigo) - 24-J-018
"Future Directions for Cooperation among Like-minded Countries to Operationalize DFFT with a Focus on Government Access" (FUJII Kojiro and MUROMACHI Shunya)
2023
* The series name has been changed from [WTO Case Review Series] to [WTO and International Trade Case Review Series]
RIETI Discussion Papers
- 24-E-041
"Impact of Technological Decoupling between the United States and China on Trade and Welfare" (JINJI Naoto and OZAWA Shunya) - 24-E-010
"Information Sharing with the Private Sector under Anti-money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Regulations" (ISHII Yurika) - 24-J-007
"An Examination of Data Localization: A focus on its impact on businesses and policy objectives" (KONNO Yukiko) - 24-J-003
"A Study on the Digital Economic Partnership Agreement (DEPA) - Focusing on the impact on the formation of multilateral rules for digital trade" (WATANABE Shota)
RIETI Policy Discussion Papers
- 23-P-034
"Final Report of USMCA Arbitration, US – Automobile Rules of Origin － Failure of an attempt to impose a condition that was not obtained through USMCA negotiations －" (UMEJIMA Osamu) - 23-P-020
"[WTO and International Trade Case Review Series No. 42] Korea – Labor Commitments: Impact of labor clauses in the free trade agreement" (SEKINE Takemasa) - 23-P-006
"An Analysis of Diverse Approaches to Facilitating “Data Free Frow with Trust” (DFFT): Through the introduction of the “OECD Mapping Report”" (NEMOTO Taku)
2022
RIETI Policy Discussion Papers
- 23-P-002
"[WTO Case Review Series No.41] Canada – Tariff Quota Allocation for Dairy Products (CDA-USA-2021-31-01) ― Interpretative Standard and Use of Judicial Economy in FTA State-to-State DS ―" (SHIMIZU Mari) - 22-P-030
"[WTO Case Review Series No.40]Turkey – Pharmaceutical Products (EU) (DS583): The first use of the DSU Article 25 appeal arbitration mechanism in the context of the dysfunction of the WTO Appellate Body" (HIRAMI Kenta) - 22-P-029
"[WTO Case Review Series No.39] Costa Rica – Measures Concerning the Importation of Fresh Avocados from Mexico (WT/DS524): The standard of review under the SPS Agreement and a WTO Member's obligation to explain" (SO Hongbum)
