Author Archives: Stuart Malawer

[Recent  postings on Twitter since the Presidential Election ………… Stuart S. Malawer (@smalawer) / Twitter] Good editorial on Tariffs and Tariff Exclusions. Downside of tariffs is more market distortion. Terrible Trump tariff and trade policy. Nationalistic protectionism doesn’t help anyone. … Continue reading →

Trump’s trade policies need serious rehabilitation. Biden faces numerous trade issues. Including the TPP & China. However, many more are also in need of critical attention — tariffs, trade sanctions, export controls, investment restrictions, taxation of multinationals and technology firms, … Continue reading →

To me, TikTox and WeChat highlight the growing ‘national securitization’ of trade and business transactions in U.S. foreign policy. ‘Trade, Technology, Telecommunications and Transaction’ (T4) has become the newest foreign policy focus of the Trump administration. This focus on business and … Continue reading →

TikTox and WeChat highlight to me the growing ‘national securitization’ of trade and business transaction in U.S. foreign policy. ‘Trade, Technology and Transactions’ (T3) and even better ‘Trade, Technology, Telecommunications and Transaction’ (T4) have become the new foreign policy focus … Continue reading →

Two really annoying op-ed pieces in the Wall Street Journal discussing separately the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (restricting the right of foreign states access to U.S. Courts). And why President Trump’s foreign policy should be a basis for reelecting him. … Continue reading →

New article ………………… National security is used by the Trump administration as legal cover for trade actions and sanctions. But the courts are beginning to look at this closely. Indeed, a recent decision by the US Court of International Trade … Continue reading →

Some books and publications by Dr. Stuart S. Malawer, JD, Ph.D. on international law and global trade:             Federal Regulation of International Business (Georgetown and US Chamber of Commerce)   Trump and Trade – Policy … Continue reading →

The US Court of International Trade today declared that the Trump administration’s additional tariffs on import of Turkish steel under Section 232 (National Security) were invalid. They failed to fall within the statutory period of action. The larger story is … Continue reading →

Richard Hass’ new book THE WORLD – A BRIEF INTRODUCTION (2020) is aimed at reviewing world history and presenting it to those that do not know much about it. He contends that’s mostly everybody. The book briefly starts with the … Continue reading →

Good editorial in the New York Times today — “Don’t Leave the WHO, Strengthen it.”  Here’s some statements concerning the president’s right to withdraw from a treaty: The world is fighting the most serious pandemic in a century, and the … Continue reading →