On August 9, 2023, President Biden signed Executive Order (E.O.) 14105, “Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern,” directing the Department of the Treasury to impose regulations on U.S. persons …
The Government of Ontario is conducting public consultations on its proposal to enact regulations under the Ontario Building Ontario Businesses Initiative Act, 2022, (S.O. 2022, c. 2, Sched. 2) which will require Ontario’s public sector entities to provide preferential treatment …
Following an attempted revolt against Russian President Vladimir Putin in late June, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (“OFAC”) issued economic sanctions against several entities associated with the Wagner Group and its leader, Yevgeniy Prigozhin. The …
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (“UFLPA”) went into effect June 21, 2022, and established a rebuttable presumption that all merchandise coming from the Xinjiang region of …
On Friday, June 23, 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) released its final rule requiring continuing education for licensed individual customs brokers. CBP anticipates that “by requiring individual customs brokers to remain knowledgeable about recent developments in customs and …
This month Commerce published proposed updates to its trade remedies regulations in the Federal Register. These include important modifications intended to address evolution in the unfair trading practices that injure American workers and businesses, and also recognize Commerce’s greater …
All merchandise imported into the commerce of the United States must be accompanied by a Form 7501 Entry Summary. At present, Form 7501 contains fields to report the country of origin and the exporting country of imported merchandise. CBP is …
Today, the Canadian Parliament adopted Bill S-211, the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act, a new law that aims to combat forced labor and child labour in supply chains. The soon-to-be law imposes a reporting …
On April 20, 2023, Canada’s House of Commons completed its first reading of the Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1 (“Bill C-47”). Bill C-47 contemplates several meaningful sanctions-related amendments to Canada’s Special Economic Measures Act (“SEMA”) that …
Observing increased imports of corrosion resistant steel (CORE) from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that was produced using Chinese-origin substrate, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) affirmed the U.S. Department of Commerce’s determination that such third-country …