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The GAFTA Default Clause and the Scope of Arbitration Appeals

Kluwer Arbitration

C&FFO is a shipping term which stands for Cost and Freight Free Out meaning that generally the sellers pay for the shipping charges and the costs of unloading the goods at their destination. On 2 February 2018, Sellers were given permission to obtain possession of the Goods and then sold them to a related third party.

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KluwerArbitration ITA Arbitration Report, Volume No. XXII, Issue No. 6 (June 2022)

Kluwer Arbitration

1090/2016, 31 December 2018 Ismail Selim, Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration (“CRCICA”), ITA Reporter for the CRCICA CRCICA Case No. PI5251-23, 20 October 2023 Elizaveta Mikaelyan, RAC, ITA Reporter for the RAC A dispute from a forwarding contract for a freight transportation organization.

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Essential Supplies and Services - Procurement Relief for Extreme Urgency

VWV

At the end of 2018, the government tried to rely upon this exception to award contracts to ferry operators for the provision of additional freight capacity between the UK and continental Europe in the event of a no-deal Brexit. There have been many cases where extreme urgency has been argued, but to date none have been successful.

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United States: Any Port in a Storm: USTR to Investigate Chinese Shipbuilding Subsidies

Import and Trade Remedies

Indeed, the invocation of Section 301 in 2017 and 2018 resulted in widespread duties on Chinese goods, which remain in effect today.

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An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

Procurement Notes

Nonetheless, from 2013 to 2018, “[y]ear-over-year [wage] growth has mostly ranged between 2% and 3%[.]” [8] So, with recent wage growth of 5.5%, wage growth has been accelerating. 7, 2018), available at [link]. [9] Wages and salaries rose 5.7 percent over this period, while the costs of benefits increased 5.3 percent.” [7] 1491(b)(3).

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Government Contracts Inflation Update

Procurement Notes

” [23] Data is also provided by occupational group (currently relying on the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (“SOC”)), industry group (currently relying on the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (“NAICS”)), geographical census division (there are nine (e.g., 7, 2018), available at [link]. [28]