By any metric, Japan should have great appeal for foreign investors. It is an advanced economy with a strong market, established industrial base, renowned tech sector, a reputation for quality, and a stable and secure...more
By any metric, Japan should have great appeal for foreign investors. It is an advanced economy with a strong market, established industrial base, renowned tech sector, a reputation for quality, and a stable and secure...more
Over the past few weeks, Thomas Allen, Kurtis Anderson, Mark J. Riedy, and Stephen Anstey have released four Legal Alerts on tariffs and threatened tariffs on the solar industry in Southeast Asia and generally imports from...more
6/5/2024
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Just this month, the U.S. Government clarified that all vehicles sold with batteries manufactured in or made of critical minerals mined from China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran will be excluded from the $7,500 Section 30D...more
There has been a flurry of activity in U.S. trade policy over the past several weeks that will impact a variety of goods imported into the U.S., including solar panel modules, EVs, and batteries. Kilpatrick attorneys have...more
On May 14, 2024, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) completed a statutory review of tariffs imposed on China for purported unfair “technology transfer” policies that “burden or restrict U.S. commerce” and recommended...more
On April 30, 2024, the International Trade Commission (“ITC”) and the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) noticed that they are once again conducting a preliminary investigation into the import of crystalline silicon...more
As previously reported, the Biden Administration is expected to re-impose double-digit tariffs on bifacial solar modules, which currently account for 98% of all modules imported into the United States....more
Since June 2022, President Biden has paused the imposition of sweeping anti-dumping and countervailing (“AD/CVD”) duties on the import of certain solar cells and modules from Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Thailand. These...more
2021年に就任以来、日本の岸田文雄首相は、日本に「新しい資本主義」を確立することを目指してきた。岸田首相のビジョンの中心にあるのは、日本の「Web3.0時代におけるデジタル経済」を発展させるための「国家戦略」であり、これは「デジタル社会の実現」と日本経済の未来にとって「鍵」となるものだと岸田政権は考えている。世界中で「激しい競争」が繰り広げられる中、日本は、ブロックチェーン技術に基づく分散型ネットワークである「Web3の未来を先導」するため大規...more
Since taking office in 2021, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has sought to establish “a new form of capitalism” in Japan. At the center of his vision has been a “national strategy” to develop Japan’s “digital economy in...more
日本銀行は、中央銀行デジタル通貨(CBDC)に関する２年間の概念実証(proof-of-concept)リサーチを完了し、現在、実証実験(パイロット・プログラム)を開始している。これにより、日本は、CBDC開発の実証段階に進んだ世界有数の経済国のひとつとなった。金融専門家は、2030年までに5兆ドルのCBDCが最大40億人に流通すると予想している。世界第3位の経済大国として、デジタル円が採用される可能性は、世界の金融システムやデジタル資産金融技術...more
On August 18, 2023, the International Trade Administration (“ITA”) of the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) issued a final “country-wide” circumvention determination in its circumvention inquiry (“Inquiry”) regarding...more
The Bank of Japan has completed its two-year proof-of-concept research for its prospective central bank digital currency (CBDC) and has now launched a pilot program. This makes Japan the largest democratic economy in the...more
New proposed guidance from the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) confirms that Japanese companies are now eligible for some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA’s) lucrative Sec....more
On March 28, 2023, the United States and Japan signed a bilateral trade agreement to strengthen supply chains of critical minerals involved in electric vehicle battery production and to “ensure the free trade of such critical...more
On December 2, 2022, the International Trade Administration (“ITA”) of the U.S. Department of Commerce preliminarily issued a “country-wide” circumvention determination in its circumvention inquiry regarding the imposition of...more
On December 2, 2022, the International Trade Administration (“ITA”) of the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) preliminarily issued a “country-wide” circumvention determination in its circumvention inquiry (“Inquiry”)...more
On June 6, 2022, President Biden took executive action to pause antidumping and countervailing import duties on solar cells and modules from countries currently the subject of a circumvention inquiry (Inquiry) by the...more
On April 1, 2022, the International Trade Administration (“ITA”) of the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) published notice of a circumvention inquiry (“Inquiry”) that could materially increase the cost of certain solar...more