The long-run commercial viability of ethanol production depends on the ability to access an inexpensive and reliable supply of inputs as well as finding stable markets for ethanol and its co-products. A unique feature of ethanol plants is their position at the intersection of multiple supply...

The global market for agri-food products has been divided for a decade. The division arose over the approval of biotechnology-based innovations – with the European Union temporarily suspending approvals and imports until it could devise a new approval mechanism. Other countries chose between...

At the time, the negotiation of the SPS agreement was seen as a major accomplishment of the Uruguay Round. One of the first major tests of both the SPS and the WTO's new dispute settlement system was the long standing and acrimonious dispute between the EU and the US and Canada over trade in...