Since the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic weâve witnessed a myriad of businesses in all areas of commerce crash or even succumb all together to the drastic, unforeseen and continuing prohibitions and restrictions which have dramatically changed our ways of life around the world.
The enactment of the âUnited States Mexico Canada Trade Agreementâ (âUSMCAâ) on July 1st, 2020, heralded the first new tri-lateral trade agreement since the enactment of its predecessor, NAFTA in 1994.
On May 4th, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (âDHSâ) intelligence service issued an unclassified four page report which stated in part:
[DHS Intelligence Service] assess the Chinese Government [âPeoples Republic of Chinaâ (âPRCâ)] intentionally concealed the severity of COVID-19 from the International community in early January while it stockpiled medical supplies by both increasing imports and decreasing exports,â the May 1 DHS report states. (emphasis added).[1]
The month of March has brought a deluge of cancellations of international conferences, travel and severely affected markets around the world, all due to the spread of âCOVID-19â â the newest strain of the âCoronavirusâ which was first discovered last December in Wuhan, China.
In August of 2018, I published an article entitled â301 Tariff Hearings and the Value of Testifyingâ [see link to previously published article on BLG Newsletter]. This article was based upon my experiences as Of Counsel to Braumiller Law Group, PLLC (âBraumillerâ) in working closely with their attorneys to organize, format, draft, and testify…
