Season 2 Episode 5- Defense Trade Down Under
Digital Trade: Key Trends and Developments to Watch
WorldSmart: The Impact of the USMCA on International Business in Mexico
WorldSmart: Arent Fox and Its Sovereign Representation in the International Marketplace
Nota Bene Episode 109: Asia Q1 Check In: China’s Emergence as the Number One World Economy and New Hegemonic Role in Asia with Paul Kim
Trade Relations and Top Trade Priorities Around the Globe
International Trade Team Comments On U.S. - EU Trade Relations
U.S. - EU Trade Conflict multilateralism and the WTO
Could A US-EU Free Trade Deal Harm The WTO?
Legal Trends: Where is the action in copyright law today?
On July 20, 2024, an Order Amending Canada’s Export Control List (ECL) (SOR/2024-112, or the Order) came into effect. This amendment adds five new controls under Item 5506 of the ECL, extending Canada's export regulation of...more
Uniformity, or rather the lack thereof, in procedures and practices within U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Centers of Excellence and Expertise (Centers) is evidently harming compliant companies within the trade...more
Canadian exporters in various sectors sometimes face barriers created by foreign laws, regulations or their interpretation. The vast majority of impediments take the form of product regulatory requirements such as product...more
On March 31, 2023, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released the 2023 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE Report). USTR highlights an array of trade barriers in more than 64...more
Co-hosts Hunter Carter and Malcolm McNeil talk about Mexico trade issues dominating the headlines, with Sánchez Devanny Law Firm Partner Eduardo Sotelo Cauduro. Mexico is an attractive trade destination because of trade...more
HTS provision 9801.0085 is a provision for tools of trade and provides duty free treatment for qualifying articles - regardless of origin. It can save a company time and duty but can also land them in trouble. There are no...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently published a Request for Public Comments regarding the newly formed Export Control Working Group of the U.S.-European Union (EU) Trade and...more
The updated version of A Guide to Canada's Export Control List (the Guide) will come into force on July 23, 2021, replacing the previous December 2018 version of the Guide. Amendments to the Export Control List (ECL)...more
The U.S.-China Phase One Agreement: Does it still have meaning? As many might still remember, at the beginning of 2020, our DW-China team reported a historic event – the signing of an economic and trade agreement between the...more
A timely Christmas present was delivered to the citizens of Europe when, on Christmas Eve, a historic trade agreement was reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) on their future relationship going...more
The U.K. and the EU conclude the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, which entered into force on December 31, 2020. The Agreement provides guidance on origin rules that must be met for products to benefit from duty-free...more
In this alert, we focus on the key takeaways for trade in goods under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement ("EU-UK TCA"). Bilateral trade between the UK and EU will be duty free and quota free provided the relevant...more
Following years of negotiations and missed deadlines, the United Kingdom reached agreement with the European Union on post-Brexit trade on December 24 2020. A sigh of relief for industry as we move into 2021 as there will be...more
The election of Joseph R. Biden as the 46th President of the United States will have important implications for US trade policy and the World Trade Organization. In the four years since his departure as Vice President, US...more
Le 21 novembre 2020, le Canada et le Royaume-Uni ont annoncé conjointement la conclusion d’une entente de principe relativement à l’Accord de continuité commerciale Canada-Royaume-Uni (l’« Accord de continuité »). Cet accord,...more
On November 21, 2020, Canada and the United Kingdom jointly announced that they had reached an agreement in principle on the Canada-United Kingdom Trade Continuity Agreement (Continuity Agreement). The Continuity Agreement,...more
The day after the first US Presidential Debate, WLG hosted a webinar on Top Trade Priorities and Global Trade Relations. Among other topics, panelists discussed how the upcoming US Presidential election could impact global...more
Updates from March 11 to March 25, 2020 - Key Takeaways: Supply chain disruption has begun on some fronts that are not directly related to the healthcare and medical fields, and is anticipated to continue as the effects...more
Since the start of this year, trade relations with China, previously marked by an escalating trade war, have reached a major inflection point. Recently, on March 12, the U.S. reacted to the growing COVID-19 pandemic by...more
The UK will be out of the EU - The UK left the EU on 31 January. There will be a transition period during which the UK will be bound by EU law but will not have a vote or be part of EU decision-making. The transition is...more
On January 15, 2020, President Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu Hu signed the long-awaited US-China Trade Agreement after nearly two years of a trade war that has resulted in crippling tariffs on almost $500 billion worth...more
On January 15, 2020, President Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed "Phase One" of an Economic and Trade Agreement between the United States and China. The Phase One Agreement, which the two sides announced in...more
On January 15, 2020, U.S. President Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed a Phase 1 trade deal between the countries. The agreement includes a pledge from China to increase its imports of U.S. goods and services by...more
Congressional appropriations serve as a potent tool to guide administrative actions in commerce and trade Before departing in the final days of 2019, Congress passed a bipartisan spending package amounting to US$1.4...more
Goods imported into Canada are generally only subject to assessment of ordinary customs duty and goods and services tax (GST) or harmonized sales tax. However, during the course of any year, certain imported goods face the...more