1:45 p.m.

Registration

2:00

Introduction:

Young-Soo Han, Korea International Trade Association

2:05

Panel I: Subsidies--Recent Developments and Future Issues

Until recently, many practitioners believed that trade remedies for subsidies were largely an issue of the past. But with the recent trade battles over lumber and computer chips, and with a number of World Trade Organization decisions about subsidies, these old issues have taken on a new life. This panel of experts will discuss recent occurrences in the law and policy of subsidies and the issues that will challenge policymakers in the future.

Discussants:

Ken Pierce, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher
Gary Hufbauer, Institute of International Education
Christopher Parlin, Loeffler, Jonas & Tuggey

Moderator:

Claude Barfield, AEI

3:15

Panel II: Trade Remedies in the Future--New Industries, New Uses, and New Problems

This panel will feature AEI trade scholar Claude Barfield, who will discuss his book High-Tech Protectionism: The Irrationality of Antidumping Laws (2003). Created to address the concerns of smokestack industries, trade remedy laws have been applied in many other contexts. How do these laws work when applied to rapidly changing, high-tech industries? What other effects do the laws have on the dynamics of competition? What unexpected problems have emerged from the application of traditional trade remedies to non-traditional settings? Problems, solutions, and answers to these questions will be discussed by the panelists.

Discussants:

Claude Barfield, AEI
Donald Cameron, Kaye Scholar
Thomas Prusa, Rutgers University

Moderator:

Dan Porter, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher

Adjournment