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New AD/CVD Petition: Snow Throwers from China and Organic Soybean Meal from India

We are still within the first 100 days of President Biden’s administration, and international trade has taken a far lower profile than in President Trump’s first 100 days. Though many are grateful that President Biden has avoided the inflammatory trade rhetoric and the unleashing of wave after wave of tariffs by the Trump Administration, many

Arbitration In Your International Contracts: Adult Supervision Required.

With sushi restaurants, it’s the yellowfin. With new houses, it’s the windows. With international contracts, it’s the dispute resolution provision. The “it” I am talking about is the one easiest, fastest, most accurate, way to judge whether something is good or not. And the way I judge international contracts is by heading straight to its

Don’t Make These Mistakes When Buying Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Brokers

In my last post regarding PPE, I discussed the normalization of the Chinese N95 mask market, the increasing insanity of the Malaysian nitrile glove market, and other market forces at work, including limitations based on shipping container shortages and financing troubles. In this post I will provide some additional insights our international PPE lawyers have

Due Diligence: Always Important, but Critical in Times of COVID

I am currently organizing a webinar on PPE transactions with my colleagues in the Florida Bar International Law Section, which will feature Dan Harris as a panelist. As we finalized the agenda, one of my co-organizers observed that fraud overshadowed every other agenda item. Not only do I agree, but this provides the best framework

How to Write a Self-Enforcing Contract That Works

In part one of this series on self-enforcing contracts, Self-Enforcing Contracts: A Good Tool for Tough Markets, I wrote about how self-enforcing contracts can be so valuable when contracting with a company in a country with a less developed legal system. In this post, I will discuss how self-enforcing contracts work and the key provisions

Self-Enforcing Contracts: A Good Tool for Tough Markets

1. Draft Your Contract for the Applicable Country In How Not to be in China, we wrote about how companies are seeking to diversify their supply chains by moving some or all of their production to other countries. When entering into contracts in these new countries, the first question to ask is whether the new

How To Protect Your IP Internationally: The Extreme Basics

I recently spoke with an in-house IP lawyer at a high-tech hardware client that does business all over the world, mostly in emerging market countries with weak intellectual property rights and protections, including China. When it comes to protecting their IP, this company employs what he calls a “Swiss Army Knife approach,” meaning they do

Biden and International Trade: Our International Trade Lawyers Tackle the Questions

On March 3, Adams Lee and I participated in a webinar titled The Biden Administration on International Trade, together with Lynn Jenkins and Todd Bertoson of the Capitol Hill Policy Group. Since we got tons of questions from the audience that we were not able to get to, we decided to pull some of those

Exporting and Selling through Distribution: A Foreign Country Entry Strategy for SMEs

Operating overseas is always difficult. Companies that start out in a new country rarely know the culture or the laws or the rules or the people that can be the deciders between success and failure. It is of course possible to bring in good people who know all of these things, but that can be

Biden Administration Transitions – International Trade

The Biden Administration on International Trade – Webinar Replay

For anyone who was not able to join our webinar discussing the Biden administration on international trade, we’ve got you covered! Below, please find the full presentation for your viewing pleasure. You can access The Biden Administration on International Trade’s PowerPoint slides HERE.

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New AD/CVD Petition: Snow Throwers from China and Organic Soybean Meal from India

Arbitration In Your International Contracts: Adult Supervision Required.

Don’t Make These Mistakes When Buying Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Brokers

Due Diligence: Always Important, but Critical in Times of COVID

How to Write a Self-Enforcing Contract That Works

Self-Enforcing Contracts: A Good Tool for Tough Markets

How To Protect Your IP Internationally: The Extreme Basics

Biden and International Trade: Our International Trade Lawyers Tackle the Questions

Exporting and Selling through Distribution: A Foreign Country Entry Strategy for SMEs

The Biden Administration on International Trade – Webinar Replay

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New AD/CVD Petition: Snow Throwers from China and Organic Soybean Meal from India

Arbitration In Your International Contracts: Adult Supervision Required.

Don’t Make These Mistakes When Buying Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Brokers

Due Diligence: Always Important, but Critical in Times of COVID

How to Write a Self-Enforcing Contract That Works

Self-Enforcing Contracts: A Good Tool for Tough Markets

How To Protect Your IP Internationally: The Extreme Basics

Biden and International Trade: Our International Trade Lawyers Tackle the Questions

Exporting and Selling through Distribution: A Foreign Country Entry Strategy for SMEs

The Biden Administration on International Trade – Webinar Replay