Respond to the "reciprocal tariffs" in the United States: Vice Dean Gong Hongliu of the School of Law gave a special speech at the "Foreign-related Rule of Law Academic Seminar" of New York w88 casino games in Shanghai

School News Network (Contributed by Law School)On April 10th-12th, the "Foreign-related Rule of Law Academic Seminar" hosted by New York w88 casino games Shanghai and co-organized by the Asia-American Law Institute of New York w88 casino games School of Law was held in Shanghai. The conference is mainly offline, combined with online, gathering nearly 20 experts and scholars from well-known universities at home and abroad, including the w88 casino games of Pennsylvania, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, the w88 casino games of Sydney, the School of Law of the w88 casino games of Australia, the Chinese w88 casino games of Hong Kong, the City w88 casino games of Hong Kong, and Peking w88 casino games, the School of International Law, the w88 casino games of Trade, China Political and Law, East China Political and Law, and the Institute of Sino-German Law of Nanyang w88 casino games.

Teacher Gong Hongliu (Chinese) took a photo with some Chinese and foreign guests participating

This seminar focused on the theme of "foreign-related rule of law", and divided into three units, including "sanctions and economic jurisdiction", "foreign-related rule of law and establishment of new institutions" and "boundary definition and judicial diplomacy". The guests at the meeting interpreted and analyzed the concept definition of "foreign-related rule of law" and its rich practices, and discussed the impact of "foreign-related rule of law" on international rules, international trade and diplomatic relations.

As the first spokesperson of the seminar, Mr. Gong Hongliu, with the title "Tackling Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs in the WTO: A Compliance Dilemma", focused on the response measures taken by the WTO members led by China to resort to the WTO, implement countermeasures and restart bilateral negotiations in response to the United States' massive "reciprocal tariffs", and discussed the WTO compliance issues involved.

Teacher Gong Hongliu (Zhong Zuo) spoke at the seminar

In terms of resorting to the WTO, Mr. Gong pointed out that as a defendant, the United States has publicly cited "national security exceptions" to defend its "reciprocal tariffs", so we can examine whether the reasons for the implementation of "reciprocal tariffs" (serious trade deficits and the national emergency caused by it) and basis (such as the "Economic Powers Act of International Emergency", etc.) can meet the statutory requirements under the WTO security exception clause; at the same time, the United States' tough stance of insisting that this clause has "self-judging" can be combined with its domestic legislative and judicial dynamics to challenge and resist "reciprocal tariffs", and explore reasons for refuting that are beneficial to WTO members such as China.

In terms of countermeasures, Mr. Gong sorted out China's diversified countermeasures against "reciprocal tariffs", believing that the latter's potential contradiction with Article 23 of the WTO Dispute Settlement Procedure Rules (DSU) may be resolved by the existence of the current major crisis of paralysis of the appeals body, thereby refuting the US's violation of the countermeasures against China and other WTO members. In addition, she also mentioned the temporary review of the Appeal Arbitration for the Appeal Body, and suggested learning from the same soft law path to find a space for the countermeasures that countries generally adopt under the pressure of "reciprocal tariffs".

In the discussion session, some guests asked about the prospects of the United States and China or other WTO members to restart bilateral negotiations. Teacher Gong believes that this may involve the specific application of relevant WTO rules such as "amendment of tariff concessions" and "regional trade exceptions", and the above terms all have certain thresholds; this means that the modification of the current multilateral tariff concessions commitments (a group of WTO members such as the EU, South Korea, and Brazil are or planned to do with the United States) until it is expanded into free trade agreement negotiations (such as Vietnam's request to the United States), the above-mentioned corresponding threshold conditions must be met before the negotiation results can be justified under the WTO multilateral.

In addition to the seminar, Teacher Gong fully exchanged experience with Chinese and foreign peers on the international exchanges and foreign talent training work under his charge, and discussed the possibility of multi-party cooperation.