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August 10, 2026
A D.C. federal judge temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Defense from enforcing a decision to designate WuXi AppTec Co. Ltd. as a Chinese military company, ruling the department's justifications appeared to lack a grounding in the evidence they cited.
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August 10, 2026
China will place preliminary antidumping duties on imported pecans from the U.S. and Mexico after concluding those goods are harming its domestic industry, the government said Monday.
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August 10, 2026
A chemical compound used in plastic production has been found to have been sold at less than fair value in the European Union, and imports from South Korea and Mexico will face antidumping duties, the European Commission announced Monday.
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August 07, 2026
Samsung has urged the U.S. International Trade Commission not to ban imports of its smartphones and tablets that a judge found to infringe a Maxell patent, saying a ban would only benefit a "foreign serial litigant," while Maxell said such an order would safeguard U.S. industry.
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August 07, 2026
The U.S. Senate approved legislation Friday that would enhance President Donald Trump's economic tools to pressure Russia, including new tariff authorities that raised concerns for Democratic lawmakers.
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August 07, 2026
Jennifer Ho of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has worked on a number of headline-grabbing deals, including TikTok's U.S. joint venture and Paramount Global's merger with Skydance Media LLC, earning her a spot among the international trade lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 07, 2026
President Donald Trump has ordered a 15% ad valorem tariff on polysilicon and derivative products to start in early December, along with the implementation of minimum prices for imports of these products, which are most closely associated with semiconductors and solar power.
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August 07, 2026
The past week in London has seen Cleary Gottlieb sue a former client it advised on the proposed sale of a holding company and the continuation of litigation between pharma giants Merck Sharp & Dohme and Merck KGaA over rights to the Merck name in the U.K.
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August 07, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce is investigating claims that stainless line and pressure pipes from India, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are being sold at unfair prices in the U.S., it said Friday.
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August 06, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service correctly disallowed over $170 million in qualified dividend deductions and over $25 million in foreign tax credits to a trading firm in 2012, the U.S. Tax Court held Thursday, finding its transactions failed an anti-abuse rule.
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August 06, 2026
The U.S. International Trade Commission has upheld a judge's ruling that Altria cannot raise its primary infringement theory in a vape patent case against rival Juul Labs, finding that the issue had already been resolved in a prior case where the ITC cleared Juul on different patents.
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August 06, 2026
A U.S. Court of International Trade judge repeatedly expressed confusion Thursday over the federal government's objection to the certification of a class of importers seeking refunds of President Donald Trump's illegal global tariffs to address concerns about finalized entries.
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August 06, 2026
E.J. Thomas of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has helped foreign clients push back against U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty orders, securing roughly $100 million in savings for a Turkish pipe producer among other big wins, earning him a spot among the international trade attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 06, 2026
China's government will strengthen export controls on drones and their components as well as suspend coordinated inspections with U.S. officials and start new investigations into American businesses as countermeasures in response to recent U.S. actions implicating Chinese companies.
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August 06, 2026
A former Goldman Sachs executive director was convicted Thursday for his role in what Brooklyn federal prosecutors say was a wide-ranging conspiracy to bribe Ghanaian officials in support of a Turkish energy company's push to obtain a lucrative power plant contract as the West African nation was reeling from an electricity crisis.
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August 06, 2026
Lawmakers behind the European Union's carbon import tax say the policy supports global climate action while remaining compliant with World Trade Organization rules — although experts note that treating all traders equally can be tricky in practice.
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August 06, 2026
The U.K. government issued fresh sanctions against Russia on Thursday, targeting 19 entities including banks, shadow fleet tankers and companies that import rare metals used for producing military equipment.
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August 05, 2026
A federal prosecutor on Wednesday told jurors in Brooklyn that emails and recordings back up allegations a former Goldman Sachs banker was the central player behind a plot to secure a lucrative energy contract by bribing Ghanaian government officials, while the defense argued that a dearth of evidence about illicit payments should doom the case.
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August 05, 2026
Litigation concerning a fatal golf cart rollover at a San Antonio country club that killed a passenger and severely injured another will have to proceed without the Chinese manufacturer as a defendant, a state appeals court ruled on Monday after finding Texas courts didn't have jurisdiction.
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August 05, 2026
A settlement was reached in The Noco Co.'s patent suit against Winplus North America Inc. over portable battery jump starters that was set for trial on Friday, but Noco told the court Wednesday that it still intends to appeal a summary judgment ruling in the case.
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August 05, 2026
Taiwanese-based Everlight Electronics will pay the U.S. government $5.15 million to resolve duty evasion allegations in a dispute brought under the False Claims Act, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland announced Wednesday.
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August 05, 2026
Intellectual property heavyweight Fish & Richardson PC remains the busiest firm in front of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as it again secured the top spot on a list of firms with the most PTAB trials over the past three years.
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August 05, 2026
Netlist and Samsung have resolved their multipronged patent fight after reaching a deal in which the South Korean electronics giant agreed to make multimillion-dollar payments to get access to a portfolio of Netlist's patents.
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August 05, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control based its placement of the former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on a sanctions blacklist on unsupported claims he backed armed rebel groups, he told a federal court in Washington, D.C.
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August 05, 2026
Ingrid Price of Covington & Burling LLP has played a major role in helping companies ensure they are compliant with U.S. national security considerations, including helping protect Qualcomm from a hostile takeover and keeping TikTok available in the U.S., earning her a spot among the international trade attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.