GW Law School Government Procurement Law Program
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 – 9:00 am EST – 14:00 UK – 15:00 CET – Online – One Hour
Panel Slides
Moderators
- Désirée Klingler (Research Fellow, Yale Law School; PhD candidate, Univ. of St. Gallen)
- Robert Anderson (WTO Secretariat, retired; Hon. Professor, U. Nottingham)
- Christopher Yukins (Professor, George Washington University Law School)
Panelists
- Laurens Abu-Talib (Politaris, AföB Alliance for Progressive Swiss Procurement)
- Michael Bowsher (Monckton Chambers; Visiting Prof., King’s College, London)
- Simon Evenett (Professor, University of St. Gallen)
- Jean Heilman Grier (Djaghe Consulting; USTR, retired)
- Eike Klapper (European Union Diplomat)
Program Summary
After many years of debate, and driven in part by “Buy American” measures in the United States, the European Union has launched the International Procurement Instrument (IPI) – a new device to punish those (including potentially U.S. vendors) from nations that do not open their public procurement markets to vendors from the European Union. At the same time, the EU has reached political agreement on a different measure which would impose price penalties on foreign bidders that received government subsidies. For its part, Switzerland, in its Public Procurement Act, entered into force in January 2021, has adopted similar measures against unfair pricing from abroad. Join us for a free hour-long webinar on these critical developments – measures which define new approaches to protectionism – with legal experts and economists from both sides of the Atlantic.
Resources
American Bar Association, Public Contract Law Section, Grants Committee — special program on “Buy American” measures in the Biden administration (Sept. 13, 2022, 12:00 Eastern, 17:00 UK, 18:00 CET)
European Union, International Procurement Instrument, Regulation 2022/1031 (23 June 2022) Regulation (EU) 2022/1031
European Parliament, Provisional Agreement on: Proposal for a regulation on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market (7 July 2022)
Global Trade Alert – Halit Harput’s series of reports on U.S. policymakers’ arguments for “friend-shoring” to concentrate supply chains among allies
Nathaniel Green & Christopher Yukins, The Inflation Reduction Act: A New Role for Green Procurement?, 64 Gov. Contractor para. 260 (Aug. 31, 2022)
Van Bael & Bellis, The International Procurement Instrument: a new trade policy tool promoting reciprocity in access to international public procurement and concession markets (June 2022)
Webinar — Buy American and the New U.S. Infrastructure Legislation
