International Trade

  • November 15, 2024

    Defense Policy Outlook Under The New Trump Administration

    Donald Trump's pending return to the White House is expected to bring significant changes to defense and national security policy, including a potentially larger but less diverse military, an increase in domestic sourcing and a more transactional relationship with allies.

  • November 15, 2024

    Venezuelan Lawyer Relied On Ex-Dentons Atty In $54M Swap

    A Venezuelan lawyer suing Dentons over a failed $54 million bolivar-to-dollars currency swap admitted Friday on the stand that he did not do any due diligence for the transaction but instead relied on what he called misinformation from an ex-Dentons attorney that she relayed to his representative.

  • November 15, 2024

    New Trade Secrets Case Brought In Trucker Tracking Row

    A fight between two neighboring San Francisco startups that sell artificial intelligence-powered software used to monitor truck drivers has resulted in yet another lawsuit: a new state court case that accuses a CEO of personally "texting and meeting in person" with competing sales reps in order to obtain trade secrets. 

  • November 15, 2024

    Trader Joe's Burger Maker Gets $3M For Bony Chicken Batch

    A chicken wholesaler has agreed to pay $3 million to the former maker of the Trader Joe's-branded "Chili Lime Chicken Burgers" to end claims that it sent bony chicken shipments down the supply chain while misrepresenting the poultry as boneless, ultimately fueling consumer complaints.

  • November 15, 2024

    Semiconductor Co. ASML Faces Suit Over Trade Downturn

    Semiconductor industry supplier ASML Holding NV has been hit with a shareholder class action alleging that it stunned investors as it significantly lowered its 2025 revenue forecast after earlier brushing off the potential impact of economic headwinds affecting its industry.

  • November 15, 2024

    OFSI Expands Sanctions Rules In Bid For More Intelligence

    Britain's sanctions enforcer has introduced new rules requiring a greater number of businesses to report potential breaches of restrictions imposed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, closing gaps for the likes of precious metal traders, art dealers, insolvency practitioners and letting agencies. 

  • November 15, 2024

    MVP: King & Spalding's Stephen J. Orava

    Stephen Orava, chair of King & Spalding's global trade practice, brought a family-owned pea protein company across the finish line when the U.S. International Trade Commission unanimously affirmed that plant proteins from China were hurting the domestic industry and took the reins on developing strategies targeting the potential impacts of China's overcapacity in chemical sectors, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 International Trade MVPs.

  • November 14, 2024

    Chinese Amazon Sellers Say Firm Botched Settlement Talks

    A group of Chinese electronics sellers have slapped a small New York law firm with a $6.4 million malpractice lawsuit, saying the firm torpedoed a potential settlement with Amazon after the online behemoth deactivated their seller accounts and withheld millions of dollars of their profits.

  • November 14, 2024

    DOD Wants Contractors To Report Foreign Code Sharing

    The U.S. Department of Defense issued a proposed rule on Thursday requiring technology and weapons vendors to reveal whether they share source code with foreign governments, in an effort to curb potential cybersecurity risks.

  • November 14, 2024

    Trade Court Won't Relitigate Customs Broker Exam Dispute

    The U.S. Court of International Trade has tossed a second suit brought by a Nebraska man challenging a question on his customs broker exam, finding that he had brought the same challenge to that question the first time around.

  • November 14, 2024

    Importer Says Its Duty Probe Answers Give It Standing To Sue

    A company that imports mattresses has hit back at the government's argument that the importer cannot challenge duties it incurred because it didn't participate in an investigation into the tax, saying the company provided factual data in response to a questionnaire during the probe.

  • November 14, 2024

    MVP: Covington's Heather Finstuen

    Covington & Burling LLP's Heather Finstuen won regulatory approval for two companies' $7.9 billion acquisition of a nuclear power company, Westinghouse Electric Co., and BAE Systems Inc.'s $5.6 billion purchase of Ball Aerospace, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 International Trade MVPs.

  • November 13, 2024

    Docks Co. Urges 11th Circ. To Rehear Split Cuba Port Ruling

    Havana Docks Corp. has urged the Eleventh Circuit to grant a full panel rehearing over the court's split ruling to reverse a $440 million win against several luxury cruise companies for using a Cuba port terminal that was confiscated by the country's government, saying the ruling by a three-judge panel contradicted the law.

  • November 13, 2024

    Nigeria Asks Justices To Take Up Circuit Split On Sovereigns

    Nigeria has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards mandates judicial enforcement of arbitration awards against sovereign nations for cases that arise solely from their roles as sovereigns.

  • November 13, 2024

    Indigenous Groups Can Join Colombia's Fight With Glencore

    An international tribunal has agreed to allow two Indigenous Wayuu communities to express their views about a massive mining project's water use in an arbitral dispute between commodities giant Glencore International AG and the Republic of Colombia.

  • November 13, 2024

    Trump Is Poised, Once Again, To Jolt US Trade Policy

    Donald Trump's first stint in the White House saw steep tariffs against China and other trade partners, and with the Biden administration having largely maintained and even expanded those levies, the president-elect is well-positioned to further pull those levers.

  • November 13, 2024

    FTX Prosecutors Tout Tech Chief's 'Outstanding Cooperation'

    Manhattan federal prosecutors urged a lenient sentence for former FTX technology chief Zixiao "Gary" Wang, telling the court on Wednesday that his "outstanding cooperation" was instrumental in securing the lightning-fast indictment and ultimate conviction of founder Sam Bankman-Fried for an $11 billion fraud that sank the crypto exchange.

  • November 13, 2024

    LNG Co. Says Full DC Circ. Must Revive Texas Project

    The company behind a liquefied natural gas project on the Texas Gulf Coast urged the full D.C. Circuit on Wednesday to vacate a panel's ruling nixing its federal approval, citing another panel's decision finding the White House Council on Environmental Quality's National Environmental Policy Act regulations are unenforceable.

  • November 13, 2024

    Trump Picks Former Democrat Gabbard For Intelligence Chief

    President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had chosen former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as his nominee for director of national intelligence, also confirming he had chosen Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as his secretary of state.

  • November 13, 2024

    Menendez Prosecutors Admit Evidence Gaffe But Deny Harm

    Prosecutors in former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption case told a federal judge Wednesday they accidentally violated a court order when they gave jurors nine exhibits containing information that should have been redacted, but said the error played no part in the guilty verdict.

  • November 13, 2024

    MVP: White & Case's David Bond

    White & Case LLP's David Bond convinced the U.S. International Trade Commission to hit the brakes on duties for a German steel company and freed an Italian aluminum company from the specter of antidumping duties, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Trade MVPs.

  • November 13, 2024

    UK Fights To Keep Sanctions On Banking Oligarch's Wife

    The U.K. government urged a London appellate court to uphold a ruling that maintained sanctions on a Ukrainian-Russian tycoon's wife, arguing that she was "plainly associated" with her husband, who has ties to Vladimir Putin.

  • November 12, 2024

    Trump Taps Elon Musk To Head New 'Gov't Efficiency' Dept.

    President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that billionaire Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a newly created "Department in Government Efficiency" for his administration come January.

  • November 12, 2024

    Businessman Blames Dentons For Failed $54M Currency Swap

    A Venezuelan businessman involved in a $54 million bolivar-to-dollars currency swap told a Miami jury on Tuesday that a former Dentons US LLP attorney told him several times that he needed to deposit more bolivars to meet a threshold minimum in order to receive U.S. dollars, but those promises never materialized.

  • November 12, 2024

    Huawei Urges Judge To Toss US IP Theft, Fraud Charges

    China's Huawei Technologies and its affiliates have asked a Brooklyn federal judge to dismiss the majority of a criminal indictment, slamming allegations that it tried to steal intellectual property from U.S. rivals and deceived banks and the U.S. government about its business dealings with sanctioned countries.

Expert Analysis

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    The Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan

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    Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.

  • To Report Or Not To Report Others' Export Control Violations

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    A recent Bureau of Industry and Security enforcement policy change grants cooperation credit to those that report violations of the Export Administration Regulations committed by others, but the benefits of doing so must be weighed against significant drawbacks, including the costs of preparing and submitting a report, says Megan Lew at Cravath.

  • With Esmark Case, SEC Returns Focus To Tender Offer Rules

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent enforcement action against Esmark in connection with its failed bid to acquire U.S. Steel indicates the SEC's renewed attention under Rule 14e‑8 of the Exchange Act on offerors' financial resources as a measure of the veracity of their tender offer communications, say attorneys at MoFo.

  • State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape

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    Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.

  • Review Shipping Terms In Light Of These 3 Global Challenges

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    Given tensions in the Middle East, labor unrest at U.S. ports and the ongoing consequences of climate change, parties involved in maritime shipping must understand the relevant contract provisions and laws that may be implicated during supply chain disruptions in order to mitigate risks, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • How BIS' Rule Seeks To Encourage More Voluntary Disclosure

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    Updated incentives, penalties and enforcement resources in the Bureau of Industry and Security's recently published final rule revising the Export Administration Regulations should help companies decide how to implement export control compliance programs and whether to disclose possible violations, say attorneys at Freshfields.

  • 8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney

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    A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.

  • How A Trump Win Might Affect The H-1B Program

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    A review of the Trump administration's attempted overhaul of the H-1B nonimmigrant visa program suggests policies Donald Trump might try to implement if he is reelected, and specific steps employers should consider to prepare for that possibility, says Eileen Lohmann at BAL.

  • Compliance Considerations For Calif. Child Labor Audit Law

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    California employers will need to conduct a fact-intensive analysis to determine whether a new state law that imposes transparency rules for child labor audits applies to their operations, and should look out for regulatory guidance that answers open questions about deadlines and penalties, says Sylvia St. Clair at Faegre Drinker.

  • Opinion

    This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process

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    In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • A Look At The PTAB's Assessment Of Prior Art Exceptions

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    The Patent Trial and Appeal Board's approach over the last 10 years to assessing Section 102(b) prior art exceptions reveals a few trends, including that evidence of common ownership may have a higher likelihood of successfully disqualifying prior art under Section 102(b)(2)(C) at the institution stage, say Louis Panzica and David Holman at Sterne Kessler.

  • Int'l Agreements Are Key For Safe Nuclear Waste Disposal

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    By replacing fossil fuels, nuclear energy has the potential to offer a major contribution to the global fight against climate change — but ensuring that nuclear power is safe and sustainable will require binding, multinational agreements for safe nuclear waste disposal, say Ryan Schermerhorn and Christopher Zahn at Marshall Gerstein.

  • Series

    Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.

  • Applying High Court's Domestic Corruption Rulings To FCPA

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the domestic corruption statutes in three decisions over the past year and a half, it’s worth evaluating whether these rulings may have an impact on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, and if attorneys can use the court’s reasoning in international bribery cases, says James Koukios at MoFo.

  • Primer On Chinese Trade Secret Disputes For US Practitioners

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    Increasing cross-border disputes over trade secret misappropriation between U.S. and Chinese entities emphasize the need for U.S. practitioners to navigate China's legal landscape following recent reforms that enhance the viability of litigation in Chinese courts, say attorneys at Jones Day.

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