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Engineer Who Faced Export Charges Cops To Tax Counts

Government Contracts

A Chinese-born engineer has pled guilty to two counts of filing a false tax return related to allegations that he and his wife omitted gross income from their tax returns between 2015 and 2019, after Texas federal prosecutors initially charged the couple with export violations and fraud.

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Changes to Public Contract Regulations 2015

Naomi Clews Consultancy

Trade Act 2023 The new Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Act 2023 has resulted in changes to the Public Contract Regulations 2015 that directly impact on the public procurement process. The latest government figures state that in the four quarters to the end of Q4 2022: the total UK exports to Australia amounted to £10.6

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

Fast forward to 2015, where during the United Nations Summit, all UN member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets with a plan to achieve them in 15 years.

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Will U.S. Lawmakers Find Common Ground to Enact De Minimis Reform in 2024?

Import and Trade Remedies

1321) with the enactment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 ( P.L. Background Congress amended Section 321 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 114-125 ) to increase the de minimis threshold for imports into the United States from $200 to $800, far exceeding similar thresholds in other countries globally.

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Sanctions and export controls week: Geopolitical disruption and global sanctions and export controls developments

Import and Trade Remedies

Specifically, we discussed the trade policy response of the US, EU and UK to ever increasing geopolitical disruption, global strategies for handling sanctions regulators and enforcement, and key global sanctions and export controls developments. The session concluded with insights into the further evolution of export controls.

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KluwerArbitration ITA Arbitration Report, Volume No. XXI, Issue No. 12 (December 2023)

Kluwer Arbitration

361/2015, 30 June 2015 José A. Moreno Rodríguez, Altra Legal, ITA Reporter for Paraguay On June 30, 2015, an Asunción Appeals Court revoked a First Instance ruling, which had initially determined that state courts lacked jurisdiction in the case at hand since the parties had agreed to arbitration. République du Congo v.

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Mongolia: Investment Related Developments in the Mining Sector

Kluwer Arbitration

More recent advancements in Mongolia’s international investment initiatives include the Canada-Mongolia BIT (2016) and Japan-Mongolia Economic Partnership Agreement (2015) (which replaced and superseded the Japan-Mongolia BIT (2001) ). million in 2015. In 2011, the tribunal ruled that the windfall profit tax did not breach the BIT.