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The Implications of Koch v. Canada for Emissions Trading Schemes

Kluwer Arbitration

The Program commenced in January 2017 and was linked with similar programs in California and Québec. Implications for Emissions Trading Businesses The Tribunal’s application of NAFTA Article 1139(h) may affect the threshold for activities that emissions trading businesses must undertake in the host State to qualify for investment protection.

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Advances in the new international taxation and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

The most important innovation, acknowledging the weakness of the existing mechanisms, such as transfer pricing and thin capitalization rules, is the transfer of income from low tax countries to other countries with taxation rates over 15%. In an open and globalized economy, these two problems affect all countries.

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Violations of Competition Law as Grounds for Setting Aside Arbitral Awards: Lessons from the Paris Court of Appeal in GBO v. CAI

Kluwer Arbitration

In 2017, CAI granted a license to GBO to use CAI’s trademarks, such as Disney, for the purpose of distributing CAI’s branded shoes in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Unlike a cartel agreement with the intent of raising prices, vertical agreements may require careful analysis to ascertain whether they are actually anticompetitive.

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Digital procurement, PPDS and multi-speed datafication -- some thoughts on the March 2023 PPDS Communication

How to Crack a Nut

Given that above threshold procurement data is already (in the process of being) captured at EU level, the PPDS is very much about data on procurement not covered by the EU rules—which represents 80% of all public procurement contracts. prices) ’ (at 7, fn 17).

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Measuring the benefits of open contracting: Case studies on Mexico, Paraguay, and Slovakia

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

For example, when we take a whole year of contracts after a transparency reform taking place in May, our estimation may be biased if a procurement regulatory reform happened 5 months later, such as a new reporting threshold introduced. Relative prices (final price divided by the initially estimated price) decreased by 1.9

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Government Contracts Issues for a Recession

Procurement Notes

Particularly, the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (“PCE”) core inflation rate for January 2024 was 2.8%. [30] 33] Importantly, since the inflation high water marks of 2022, mostly what has occurred is disinflation (decrease of the inflation rate), not actual deflation (price decreases). down from 5.5%

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Friday Flash 06/07/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

We are grateful to have awarded eight accomplished veterans with this scholarship, with the first being named during the 2017 golf tournament. 1 Simplified Acquisition Threshold: The bill would raise the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT) from $250,000 to $500,000. procurement at the GWU Law School.