International Trade

  • May 20, 2026

    ITC Clears Way For Duties On Imported Chassis

    The U.S. International Trade Commission found chassis imported from Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam and sold at unfair prices to be harming U.S. industry, setting the stage Wednesday for the U.S. Department of Commerce to order duties against the products.

  • May 20, 2026

    EU Lawmakers Agree To Include Safeguards In US Trade Deal

    The Parliament and Council of the European Union reached a provisional agreement Wednesday morning to strengthen safeguards to the trade deal reached last year with the U.S., according to a press release.

  • May 20, 2026

    US Finalizes 91% Vietnamese Steel Pipe Duty On Review

    Welded steel pressure pipes imported from Vietnam into the U.S. will be subject to a 90.8% antidumping duty rate after the U.S. Department of Commerce finalized a review of the over-decade-old original duty order.

  • May 19, 2026

    States Tell CIT To Reject Gov't's Request To Stay Tariff Ruling

    The federal government's arguments to stay a permanent injunction against the collection of President Donald Trump's temporary global duties for two small businesses and the state of Washington while it appeals the ruling are overblown, a coalition of states told the U.S. Court of International Trade on Tuesday.

  • May 19, 2026

    Trump Banking Orders Boost Fintechs, Block Immigrants

    President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a pair of executive orders aimed at preventing undocumented immigrant workers from using the U.S. financial system and expanding financial technology firms' access to Federal Reserve payment accounts and services.

  • May 19, 2026

    Intel Says Texas Law Doesn't Support Russian Missile Claims

    Intel and other semiconductor manufacturers asked a Texas federal judge to throw out claims that they negligently sold products the Russian government used to build missiles that killed Ukrainian civilians, saying Tuesday that the civilians' claims have no basis in Texas law.

  • May 19, 2026

    EU Says $40M Award Against Poland Can't Be Enforced

    The European Commission has told the D.C. Circuit that a Swedish court decision, which dismissed a $40 million arbitral award favoring a commodities trading firm, correctly set aside the award against Poland as incompatible with Swedish and European Union law.

  • May 19, 2026

    Ex-Trump Fundraiser Dodges Prison For Straw Donor Scheme

    A New York man who raised funds for President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign avoided a prison sentence Tuesday after being found guilty at trial of charges stemming from a straw donor scheme partly intended to help Chinese nationals gain access to Trump.

  • May 19, 2026

    Apple's Fed. Circ. Review Bid Gets Support In Watch Ban Feud

    Technology industry groups and an organization that often files patent challenges have thrown their support behind Apple's fight against a Federal Circuit panel's finding that the U.S. International Trade Commission properly banned imports of Apple Watches with blood oxygen-monitoring features.

  • May 19, 2026

    After Feds' Input, Gilstrap Denies Injunction In $445M IP Case

    U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap on Monday rebuffed Collision Communications Inc.'s bid for an injunction blocking Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. from selling products that a jury said were infringing in a $445 million verdict in a case that the federal government used to argue for broader use of injunctions in patent suits.

  • May 19, 2026

    DOJ Says Container Makers Fixed Prices During Pandemic

    Four of the world's largest shipping container manufacturers and seven of their current and former executives conspired to restrict production to drive up prices, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday in criminally charging them, although most may be beyond the reach of American courts.

  • May 19, 2026

    Costco Calls Suit Over Tariff Refunds Premature

    Costco urged an Illinois federal court to toss a putative consumer class action seeking to recoup the higher costs that shoppers paid under President Donald Trump's global tariffs, contending that the case is premature in the wake of uncertain corporate refunds. 

  • May 19, 2026

    Investor Who Lost $586K To Lead McDermott Stock Suit Subclass

    A Texas federal judge has appointed a man who claims some $586,833 in losses to lead a subclass of stock purchasers in a suit accusing energy industry engineering giant McDermott International Inc. of misleading investors during its $6 billion merger with Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. NV in 2018.

  • May 19, 2026

    Chinese Testing Lab Urges FCC Caution On 'Reciprocal' Rule

    A Chinese equipment testing lab says the Federal Communications Commission needs to tread carefully in crafting new rules demanding "reciprocal" agreements to test communications gear, or risk disrupting U.S. supply chains.

  • May 19, 2026

    EU Parliament Approves Stricter Steel Duty Regime

    The European Parliament approved a regulation to strengthen the European Union's protections from global steel overcapacity, cutting the tariff-free import quota by 47% while doubling the duty on imports beyond the quota to 50%, according to a news release Tuesday.

  • May 19, 2026

    Fed. Circ. Won't Rehear Chemical Co.'s Duty Refund Dispute

    The Federal Circuit won't reconsider its rejection of a chemical manufacturer's argument that federal law required its claim for a petroleum derivative duty refund to be processed automatically, despite the company's claim that the court misconstrued the relevant law and precedent.

  • May 19, 2026

    Vietnamese Plastic Boxes Face Triple-Digit Duty Rate

    Imported plastic boxes from Vietnam could be hit with a more than 130% antidumping duty rate after the U.S. Department of Commerce on Tuesday finalized its determination that the products are being sold at less than fair value.

  • May 18, 2026

    Ex-Austrian Bank CEO To Plead Out In $170M Odebrecht Case

    The former CEO of Austrian lender Meinl Bank AG who was extradited from the U.K. has reached a tentative deal to resolve criminal charges that he helped Odebrecht SA hide $170 million in funds used to bribe officials around the world and defraud the Brazilian government, a Brooklyn federal court heard Monday.

  • May 18, 2026

    Judge Won't Apply Foreign Court Orders To NY Stoli TM Fight

    A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that a Russian state-owned company fighting with U.S.-based distributors over the trademark rights to Stolichnaya vodka cannot stop the distributors from repeating arguments that had been rejected by Dutch and Russian courts.

  • May 18, 2026

    DOJ Charges Bring More Complications For Key Bridge Ship

    Recent federal criminal charges over Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster have created new risks for operators of the cargo ship at the center of the wreck, potentially upending a civil trial that's set to start next month to determine the scope of damages for victims' families and other injured claimants.

  • May 18, 2026

    DOD Says Chipmaker Belongs On Chinese Military List

    The U.S. Department of Defense has said it has "substantial" evidence to back labeling Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. a Chinese military company because its products have military applications, urging a D.C. federal judge to reject the chipmaker's lawsuit challenging the label.

  • May 18, 2026

    Venezuelan Official Laundered Food Aid Cash, US Says

    A former Venezuelan government official and ally of deposed President Nicolás Maduro appeared in a Miami court Monday on new charges that he laundered money from a public welfare program meant to provide food to poor Venezuelans.

  • May 18, 2026

    CIT Says Commerce Must Better Explain Garlic Duty Evasion

    The U.S. Department of Commerce failed to explain why it found preserved and cut garlic chunks to be avoiding an antidumping duty placed on fresh garlic cloves imported from China, and it must provide more detail behind its decision on remand, according to an opinion issued by the U.S. Court of International Trade.

  • May 18, 2026

    Feds Move To Drop Adani Group Chair's Criminal Charges

    Federal prosecutors moved Monday to permanently dismiss criminal charges accusing Adani Group Chairman Gautam S. Adani and seven others of orchestrating a $250 million bribery scheme to secure lucrative Indian government renewable-energy contracts while misleading investors about the dealings of an Adani Group subsidiary.

  • May 15, 2026

    Amazon Skipped Tariff Refunds To Appease Trump, Suit Says

    A proposed class action filed against Amazon on Friday seeks to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in unlawful Trump administration tariffs that customers say the retail giant charged shoppers but is now failing to reclaim in order to appease the president.

Expert Analysis

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    Teaching Logic Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Teaching middle and high school students the skills to untangle complicated arguments and identify faulty reasoning has made me reacquaint myself with the defined structure of thought, reminding me why logic should remain foundational in the practice of law, says Tom Barrow at Woods Rogers.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Resilience

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    Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.

  • Takeaways From The DOJ Fraud Section's 2025 Year In Review

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    Former acting Principal Deputy Chief Sean Tonolli of the U.S. Department of Justice's Fraud Section, now at Cahill Gordon, analyzes key findings from the section’s annual report — including the changes implemented to adapt to the new administration’s priorities — and lays out what to watch for this year.

  • Traditional FCA Enforcement Surges Amid Shifting Priorities

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    The U.S. Department of Justice’s January report on False Claims Act enforcement in fiscal year 2025 reveals that while the administration signaled its intent to expand FCA enforcement into new areas such as tariffs, for now the greatest exposure remains in traditional areas like healthcare — in which the risk is growing, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • NYC Bar Opinion Warns Attys On Use Of AI Recording Tools

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    Attorneys who use artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and summarize conversations with clients should heed the New York City Bar Association’s recent opinion addressing the legal and ethical risks posed by such tools, and follow several best practices to avoid violating the Rules of Professional Conduct, say attorneys at Smith Gambrell.

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    The Biz Court Digest: Dispatches From Utah's Newest Court

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    While a robust body of law hasn't yet developed since the Utah Business and Chancery Court's founding in October 2024, the number of cases filed there has recently picked up, and its existence illustrates Utah's desire to be top of mind for businesses across the country, says Evan Strassberg at Michael Best.

  • 4 Quick Emotional Resets For Lawyers With Conflict Fatigue

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    Though the emotional wear and tear of legal work can trap attorneys in conflict fatigue — leaving them unable to shake off tense interactions or return to a calm baseline — simple therapeutic techniques for resetting the nervous system can help break the cycle, says Chantel Cohen at CWC Coaching & Therapy.

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    Playing Tennis Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    An instinct to turn pain into purpose meant frequent trips to the tennis court, where learning to move ahead one point at a time was a lesson that also applied to the steep learning curve of patent prosecution law, says Daniel Henry at Marshall Gerstein.

  • FTO Designations: Containing Foreign Firms' Legal Risks

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    Non-U.S. companies can contain legal risks related to foreign terrorist organizations by deliberately structuring operations to demonstrate that any interactions with cartel-affected environments are incidental, constrained and unrelated to advancing harm on the U.S., says David Raskin at Nardello & Co.

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    Judges On AI: How Judicial Use Informs Guardrails

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    U.S. Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado discusses why having a sense of how generative AI tools behave, where they add value, where they introduce risk and how they are reshaping the practice of law is key for today's judges.

  • What US Cos. Must Know To Comply With Italy's AI Law

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    Italy's newly effective artificial intelligence law means U.S. companies operating in Italy or serving Italian customers must now meet EU AI Act obligations as well as Italy-specific requirements, including immediately enforceable criminal penalties, designated national authorities and sector-specific mandates, say attorneys at Portolano Cavallo.

  • 2026 Int'l Arbitration Trends: Next Steps In Age Of AI, Crypto

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    Parties' use of artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies will continue in 2026, and international arbitrators will be called upon to evolve by building expertise in blockchain functionality, cryptography and decentralized finance protocols, and understanding the power and limitations of large language models, say attorneys at Cleary.

  • Presidential Pardon Brokering Can Create Risks For Attys

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    The emergence of an apparent “pardon shopping” marketplace, in which attorneys treat presidential pardons as a market product, may invite investigative scrutiny of counsel and potential criminal charges grounded in bribery, wire fraud and other statutes, says David Klasing at The Tax Law Offices of David W. Klasing.

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    Adapting To Private Practice: 5 Tips From Ex-SEC Unit Chief

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    My move to private practice has reaffirmed my belief in the value of adaptability, collaboration and strategic thinking — qualities that are essential not only for successful client outcomes, but also for sustained professional satisfaction, says Dabney O’Riordan at Fried Frank.

  • 2026 Int'l Arbitration Trends: Awards Against Sovereign States

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    The enforcement of arbitral awards against sovereign states is one of the most contentious and rapidly evolving areas in international arbitration, with three defining issues on the 2026 horizon: the scope of sovereign immunity, assignability of rights, and availability of fraud and corruption defenses, say attorneys at Cleary.

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