International Trade

  • July 02, 2026

    Commerce Probes Thai Steel For Evasion Of China Duties

    The U.S. Department of Commerce said Thursday that it was looking into whether corrosion-resistant steel products completed in Thailand using products from China are circumventing duty orders against the Chinese products.

  • July 02, 2026

    US Hits Algerian Steel Rebar With Countervailing Duties

    The U.S. Department of Commerce ordered a 72.94% countervailing duty against imports of steel concrete reinforcing bar into the country from Algeria on Thursday, following triple-digit antidumping duties issued earlier this year.

  • July 01, 2026

    Alibaba Cos. Ink $600M Nonprosecution Deal Over Drug Sales

    Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and its U.S.-based payment processor AUS Merchant Services Inc. will avoid prosecution and pay $600 million to end the U.S. Department of Justice's allegations that they allowed merchants to sell and import illegal pharmaceuticals and controlled substances into the U.S., the DOJ announced Wednesday.

  • July 01, 2026

    Lululemon Targeted In New Shopper Tariff Refund Lawsuit

    Lululemon has been accused of boosting prices in response to the Trump administration's global tariffs then failing to refund customers when the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the duties, becoming one of the latest household brand names to face such claims.

  • July 01, 2026

    Calif. Judge Sends $2M Cannabis Land Dispute To Arbitration

    A Los Angeles County judge has hit pause on a $2.2 million lawsuit accusing a cannabis company of misappropriating an investor's contribution after both sides agreed to take the case to arbitration.

  • July 01, 2026

    Ukrainian Civilian Suit Against Semiconductor Cos. Dismissed

    A Texas federal judge on Wednesday dismissed claims that semiconductor manufacturers negligently sold products the Russian government used to build missiles that killed Ukrainian civilians, but gave the Ukrainian civilians who brought the suit another shot at pleading their claims.

  • July 01, 2026

    Anthropic Says Export Controls Are Lifted For Latest Models

    Anthropic has announced that export controls ordered by the Trump administration regarding its new Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models have been lifted, saying it would make the frontier models available starting Wednesday.

  • July 01, 2026

    USMCA Nonrenewal Brings New Caution For Business

    The joint review process for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement formally kicked off Wednesday as the U.S. announced its intent not to renew the agreement without changes, leaving practitioners with questions about the outcomes of negotiations and expectations of continued business uncertainty.

  • July 01, 2026

    US Not Renewing USMCA, But Deal Still In Force For Now

    The U.S. will not to renew the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the Office of the U.S. Trade Ambassador announced Wednesday, though the deal will remain in force as the three sides continue to negotiate.

  • July 01, 2026

    ITC Probing Monsanto's Claims Against Chinese Glyphosate

    The U.S. International Trade Commission has opened an investigation into Chinese glyphosate, the primary ingredient used in the herbicide Roundup, to determine whether the imports that Monsanto Co. alleges are being sold at unfair prices are harming U.S. industry.

  • July 01, 2026

    EV Battery Workers Say Ford Is Joint Employer

    Battery plant workers have told a Michigan federal court that Ford Motor Co. is their joint employer and bears responsibility for unpaid wage claims at an electric vehicle battery plant, pushing back against the automaker's bid to escape the lawsuit.

  • June 30, 2026

    ITC Funding Disclosure Rule Mostly Draws Support

    The U.S. International Trade Commission's proposal to require litigation funding disclosures in intellectual property investigations received near-universal approval from those who provided feedback, receiving pushback only from an organization representing litigation funders and a nonpracticing entity.

  • June 30, 2026

    ITC's Longest-Serving Judge Plans To Depart

    MaryJoan McNamara, the U.S. International Trade Commission's longest-tenured administrative law judge, plans to step down from her post, according to people familiar with the decision.

  • June 30, 2026

    FERC Future Fuzzy After High Court's Agency Firings Ruling

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission faces an uncertain future following the U.S. Supreme Court's blockbuster ruling that presidents have unlimited authority to fire members of independent agencies, which creates new risks for an energy industry that's used to regulatory continuity at FERC.

  • June 30, 2026

    Income Taxes Drive Slight Boost In Asia-Pacific Tax Ratio

    Increases in income tax collection in the Asia-Pacific region helped drive a modest increase in the region's average ratio of tax to gross domestic product in 2024, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday, though it still sits well below the OECD average.

  • June 30, 2026

    Eletson Ex-Owners Ordered To Pay $296K In Fraud-Tainted Feud

    A New York federal judge has told the former majority owners of Eletson Gas to pay nearly $300,000 in sanctions after he vacated an underlying $102 million arbitration award over alleged fraud.

  • June 30, 2026

    EU Carves Out Free Trade Partners In Revised Steel Duties

    The European Union's new tariff-free steel import quotas will take effect Wednesday, with half of the 18.3 million metric tons in annual duty-free steel imports being allocated to countries with free-trade agreements with the EU, the European Commission said Tuesday.

  • June 30, 2026

    ITC Opens Patent Probe Into Chinese Protein Testing Co.

    The U.S. International Trade Commission said it has opened an investigation into a U.S. biotechnology company's claim that a Chinese company is importing and selling kits and other technology in the U.S. that infringe patents related to testing the proteins in genomes.

  • June 30, 2026

    Canada, Germany Pledge Closer Cooperation On Chips

    Canadian and German officials signed a joint declaration committing to work together on policy matters involving semiconductor supply chains, according to a Tuesday news release by the Canadian government.

  • June 30, 2026

    Customs Change Isn't Singling Out China, EU Official Says

    The abolition of a de minimis customs exemption and a new duty on low-value parcels entering the European Union, set to apply starting Wednesday, do not specifically target China, a senior European Commission official said.

  • June 29, 2026

    Citibank Defeats Texas Man's $20M NFT Romance Scam Suit

    A New York federal judge Monday threw out a Texas man's suit accusing Citibank NA of ignoring red flags that allowed scammers to siphon nearly $4 million from his family trusts after he fell for a social media romance scam involving nonfungible tokens.

  • June 29, 2026

    SEC Fines Merrill Lynch $7.5M For Unfiled Reports

    Bank of America subsidiary Merrill Lynch will pay $7.5 million to settle claims from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it violated securities laws by failing to further investigate certain transactions processed by its suspicious activity detection system.

  • June 29, 2026

    ITC To Probe Bobcat Imports After Caterpillar Complaint

    The U.S. International Trade Commission has opened an investigation into whether construction equipment maker Doosan Bobcat imported certain heavy machinery that infringed rival Caterpillar Inc.'s patents.

  • June 29, 2026

    Chinese Broker Futu Hit With Investor Suit Over Penalty Risk

    China-based brokerage firm operator Futu Holdings Ltd. has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action in New York federal court accusing it of concealing risks associated with its noncompliance with Chinese securities laws, causing company shares to fall by nearly a third of their value when Futu disclosed regulatory shortcomings.

  • June 29, 2026

    Seattle Judge Merges Amazon IEEPA Tariff Refund Suits

    A federal judge in Seattle consolidated a pair of proposed class actions brought by Amazon customers looking to recover millions of dollars in refunds for the now-invalidated International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, as the two suits made essentially identical allegations.

Expert Analysis

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    Teaching Logic Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Teaching middle and high school students the skills to untangle complicated arguments and identify faulty reasoning has made me reacquaint myself with the defined structure of thought, reminding me why logic should remain foundational in the practice of law, says Tom Barrow at Woods Rogers.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Resilience

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    Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.

  • Takeaways From The DOJ Fraud Section's 2025 Year In Review

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    Former acting Principal Deputy Chief Sean Tonolli of the U.S. Department of Justice's Fraud Section, now at Cahill Gordon, analyzes key findings from the section’s annual report — including the changes implemented to adapt to the new administration’s priorities — and lays out what to watch for this year.

  • Traditional FCA Enforcement Surges Amid Shifting Priorities

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    The U.S. Department of Justice’s January report on False Claims Act enforcement in fiscal year 2025 reveals that while the administration signaled its intent to expand FCA enforcement into new areas such as tariffs, for now the greatest exposure remains in traditional areas like healthcare — in which the risk is growing, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • NYC Bar Opinion Warns Attys On Use Of AI Recording Tools

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    Attorneys who use artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and summarize conversations with clients should heed the New York City Bar Association’s recent opinion addressing the legal and ethical risks posed by such tools, and follow several best practices to avoid violating the Rules of Professional Conduct, say attorneys at Smith Gambrell.

  • Series

    The Biz Court Digest: Dispatches From Utah's Newest Court

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    While a robust body of law hasn't yet developed since the Utah Business and Chancery Court's founding in October 2024, the number of cases filed there has recently picked up, and its existence illustrates Utah's desire to be top of mind for businesses across the country, says Evan Strassberg at Michael Best.

  • 4 Quick Emotional Resets For Lawyers With Conflict Fatigue

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    Though the emotional wear and tear of legal work can trap attorneys in conflict fatigue — leaving them unable to shake off tense interactions or return to a calm baseline — simple therapeutic techniques for resetting the nervous system can help break the cycle, says Chantel Cohen at CWC Coaching & Therapy.

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    Playing Tennis Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    An instinct to turn pain into purpose meant frequent trips to the tennis court, where learning to move ahead one point at a time was a lesson that also applied to the steep learning curve of patent prosecution law, says Daniel Henry at Marshall Gerstein.

  • FTO Designations: Containing Foreign Firms' Legal Risks

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    Non-U.S. companies can contain legal risks related to foreign terrorist organizations by deliberately structuring operations to demonstrate that any interactions with cartel-affected environments are incidental, constrained and unrelated to advancing harm on the U.S., says David Raskin at Nardello & Co.

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    Judges On AI: How Judicial Use Informs Guardrails

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    U.S. Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado discusses why having a sense of how generative AI tools behave, where they add value, where they introduce risk and how they are reshaping the practice of law is key for today's judges.

  • What US Cos. Must Know To Comply With Italy's AI Law

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    Italy's newly effective artificial intelligence law means U.S. companies operating in Italy or serving Italian customers must now meet EU AI Act obligations as well as Italy-specific requirements, including immediately enforceable criminal penalties, designated national authorities and sector-specific mandates, say attorneys at Portolano Cavallo.

  • 2026 Int'l Arbitration Trends: Next Steps In Age Of AI, Crypto

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    Parties' use of artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies will continue in 2026, and international arbitrators will be called upon to evolve by building expertise in blockchain functionality, cryptography and decentralized finance protocols, and understanding the power and limitations of large language models, say attorneys at Cleary.

  • Presidential Pardon Brokering Can Create Risks For Attys

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    The emergence of an apparent “pardon shopping” marketplace, in which attorneys treat presidential pardons as a market product, may invite investigative scrutiny of counsel and potential criminal charges grounded in bribery, wire fraud and other statutes, says David Klasing at The Tax Law Offices of David W. Klasing.

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    Adapting To Private Practice: 5 Tips From Ex-SEC Unit Chief

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    My move to private practice has reaffirmed my belief in the value of adaptability, collaboration and strategic thinking — qualities that are essential not only for successful client outcomes, but also for sustained professional satisfaction, says Dabney O’Riordan at Fried Frank.

  • 2026 Int'l Arbitration Trends: Awards Against Sovereign States

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    The enforcement of arbitral awards against sovereign states is one of the most contentious and rapidly evolving areas in international arbitration, with three defining issues on the 2026 horizon: the scope of sovereign immunity, assignability of rights, and availability of fraud and corruption defenses, say attorneys at Cleary.

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