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Canada initiates consultation on trade measures in response to surplus supply of Chinese EVs

Import and Trade Remedies

Business Impact Canadian’s alignment of its foreign trade policy with the US and the EU on Chinese EVs may create risk for Canadian businesses exporting to, or doing business in, China. goods in response to Section 232 tariffs imposed by the United States on Canadian steel and aluminium.

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Treating Symptoms or Root Causes? The Draft Statute of an Advisory Centre on International Investment Dispute Resolution

Kluwer Arbitration

For capital-exporting economies, it offers a means to ease some of developing countries’ concerns about ISDS – and in this way, to shore up a dispute settlement system the perceived legitimacy of which is under growing pressure. One is that, as donor countries may also be major capital exporters, there is potential for conflicts of interest.

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Starting December 4th, Contractors Must Rid Supply Chains of Covered Articles and Sources Subject to FASC Orders

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Burrows ● Effective December 4, 2023, a new interim rule will prohibit contractors from delivering or using covered articles and sources subject to exclusion or removal orders issued under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018 (“FASCSA”).

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The Biden Administration Announces New U.S. Tariffs on Chinese Imports and Solar Products

Import and Trade Remedies

Section 201 duties on certain solar product imports have been in effect since 2018. The announcement comes on the heels of a four-year review of the Section 301 tariffs first imposed in 2018 by the Office of the U.S. One of the new changes announced is an expansion of merchandise covered by the Section 201 duties.

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Arbitration in the Era of Market Liberalization in Ethiopia

Kluwer Arbitration

In April 2024, a law passed by the Investment Authority opened the import, wholesale, retail and export (of raw coffee, khat, oilseeds, pulses, hides and skins, forest products, poultry and livestock bought from the local market) sectors to foreign investments. Ministry of Agriculture (Cassation File No.

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

Import and Trade Remedies

e-commerce imports by quantity, increasing by 88 percent from 2018 to 2021, and constituting 83 percent of total U.S. By value, from 2018 to 2020, de minimis imports more than doubled from $29 billion to $67 billion. The report also notes that from 2018 to 2021 nearly two-thirds of the 2.3 e-commerce imports in fiscal year 2022.

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Efforts to Curtail the Global Race on Industrial Subsidies

Import and Trade Remedies

Back in 2018, the EU, the United States of America (“ U.S. extra import duties) aim to offset the benefits of subsidies to beneficiaries that export subsidized products. The EU’s call for the strengthening of multilateral subsidy disciplines is not new. to its hydrogen industry. The WTO disputes between the EU and the U.S.

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