Simon Lacey

Two assignments in Pohnpei in 2010, an unsuccessful effort to encourage WTO accession, and lessons on building competitiveness in a small island nation spanning a vast territory.

A heads-up to Indonesia’s Trade Minister: why a WTO ruling against Turkey’s rice import restrictions exposed vulnerabilities much closer to home.

What I learned from advising countries seeking WTO membership—and sitting on the other side of the table as a Member’s delegate.

When do imports cause injury, and when does the legal test make safeguards too difficult to use? An early paper on WTO trade remedies, later presented in Seoul.

An early conference paper from my time at the World Trade Institute, asking what WTO membership had meant in practice for the Kyrgyz Republic.

One of my first papers at the World Trade Institute: India’s challenge to European antidumping practices and the limits trade rules placed on investigating authorities.