Ramifications of the Change in Hong Kong’s Trade Status for Importers and Exporters in the U.S. Market
Hong Kong’s change in trade status had a significant impact on the U.S. regulatory enforcement of transactions with Hong Kong entities, especially country of origin marking, assessment of Antidumping & Countervailing Duties, and controlled exports.
Forced Labor in Xinjiang: What you need to know
Human rights violations run rampant within China’s Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang), targeting ethnic and religious minority groups such as Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and ethnic Kyrgyz. The PRC government in Xinjiang has unjustly imprisoned more than one million individuals from these minority groups since 2017.
The U.S. Strike Force on Unfair Trade A Global Perspective, But It’s Really Just About China
By: By Bob Brewer, Braumiller Law Group
In the ongoing tit-for-tat trade war with China and the U.S., new developments are actually old policies, but seem to be resurfacing as the escalation in loss of patience continues to bring about more protectionism. It’s a global implementation, but the United States will target China with a new “strike force” to combat unfair trade practices.
Why the Meyer Decision isn’t a Lemon: Modern Use of “First Sale”
A March 1st decision out of the CIT has caused a stir in the global trade industry because of the CIT opinion’s apparent uncertainty of the applicability of the “first sale” rule in transactions with non-market economy manufacturers and the broader implications of that uncertainty.
A Meeting of the Minds Between China and the U.S. Perhaps in the Near Future? When Pigs Fly
One would think, if from another planet, or part of the world that is sheltered completely from global information on economies, that a crisis like a worldwide pandemic could bring two superpowers together in battle to fight a common enemy.
Current Relations with China: How Could this Affect Trade?
On December 2nd, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that may ultimately cause Chinese companies to be delisted from the U.S. stock exchange. The purpose of the bill is to allow U.S. accounting regulators to audit Chinese companies that are traded on the U.S. stock exchange.
A Review of 2020 Changes in Export Controls vis-à-vis China
Although 2020 is not over yet (unfortunately), the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has had a busy year by any measure.
An Update on Wally World, and Somewhat of a Digression on the Pandemic Landscape
By Bob Brewer, Braumiller Law Group It doesn’t seem that long ago, but it was, (October of 2018) that I wrote an article called “What’s Going on at Wally World”, based on the Section 301 tariffs being imposed on Chinese imports, and how it was affecting Walmart, who imports about 80% of their products from […]
RCEP: Asia-Pacific Countries Sign the World’s Largest Trade Agreement
On November 15, 2020, leaders of fifteen Asia-Pacific countries signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) via a virtual signing ceremony.
“The Wild Wild East”… PPE Trade with Asia During the Pandemic
Since the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic we’ve 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.