Business consulting firm FTI Consulting launched a national security practice that will offer advice on various national security issues, including export controls, reviews before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., sanctions, and "transshipment and diversion of critical technology." Michael Driscoll, former assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York office, will lead the practice.
Former Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., said last week he remains confident that a new law requiring China’s ByteDance to divest popular social media application TikTok will survive any legal challenges.
The American Bar Association's International Law Section last week submitted comments on the Treasury Department's proposed outbound investment rules, suggesting a range of changes the agency should make to further clarify its new rules and adequately set their scope.
The Federal Maritime Commission issued a “policy statement” this week to explain that it can use subpoena authority and other “administrative investigatory authorities” when probing agreements between and among ocean carriers and marine terminal operators that may be anticompetitive.
The Congressional Research Service on July 26 released a report breaking down appellate decisions issued in recent years applying the U.S. Supreme Court's now-defunct Chevron standard of deference. The high court swapped this standard for a requirement of de novo review of federal agencies' interpretations of ambiguous statutes in Loper Bright v. Raimondo (see 2406280051).
Industry players and a law professor argued that the International Trade Commission's power to stop imports that are found to be infringing on domestic patents has become a form of blackmail by foreign companies against domestic companies, and that its original reason for being is no longer true.
The Supreme Court's recent decision eliminating the standard of deferring to federal agencies' interpretation of ambiguous statutes (see 2406280051) "will likely result in more litigation in the already heavily litigated world of international trade," two ArentFox Schiff partners said in a client alert.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control urged a federal court late last month to dismiss the sole remaining claim in a lawsuit challenging the agency’s sanctioning of two former Afghan government officials for corruption.
International trade firm Cassidy Levy moved from 900 19th St. NW in Washington, D.C., to 2112 Pennsylvania Ave., Suite 300, the firm told the Court of International trade in a June 13 notice.
Contradictory language in the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act -- which says the government may list entities that source items from Xinjiang, but says that the rebuttable presumption only applies to goods "produced by an entity on a list" -- may result in more litigation over the entity list, trade mavens say.