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April 28, 2026
The U.S. government is accepting comments related to plans to modernize a trade agreement between the U.S. and African countries, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Tuesday.
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April 28, 2026
Sidley Austin LLP has hired a Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP sponsor finance counsel to its Washington, D.C., team who has about 20 years of experience working with a range of financial entities on transactional matters.
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April 28, 2026
Imported steel concrete reinforcing bar from Algeria will be subject to an over 127% antidumping duty rate in the U.S. following the issuance of a duty order Monday by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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April 27, 2026
A Texas federal judge Monday questioned whether a shareholder group is too large and whether a late-buying individual investor could represent a subclass of investors in a suit accusing energy industry engineering giant McDermott International Inc. of misleading investors during its $6 billion merger with Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. NV in 2018.
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April 27, 2026
Wood products giant Boise Cascade Co. must pay a fine of more than $6.3 million after pleading guilty Monday in Florida federal court to purchasing Chinese plywood that it knew a company had illegally transshipped to evade countervailing and antidumping duties.
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April 27, 2026
U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, told jurors in Florida federal court on Monday that his meetings with Venezuelan officials set up by former Florida Congressman David Rivera were part of a larger attempt to negotiate an exit for then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and usher in free and fair elections for the country.
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April 27, 2026
The U.S. House passed a bill Monday that would allow U.S. Customs and Border Protection to share detailed shipment information with brands, online marketplaces and logistics companies when agents suspect imports are counterfeit.
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April 27, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Monday declined to rehear a mixed appeal from Crocs Inc. seeking an import ban against companies it claims were importing footwear that infringes its trademarks.
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April 27, 2026
The governments of four Canadian provinces have urged the Ninth Circuit to reject an appeal from junior hockey players accusing the National Hockey League and its developmental organizations of suppressing compensation.
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April 27, 2026
Reed Smith LLP and two of its partners are facing a $262 million lawsuit in a long-running and bitter dispute over ownership of an international gas shipping company, as well as other issues that remain unresolved following the vacatur of an underlying $102 million arbitral award for fraud.
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April 27, 2026
The U.S. Court of International Trade granted a preliminary injunction blocking the federal government from compelling certain actions on imports entered by a Florida electric golf cart company while a duty investigation is ongoing, according to an opinion published Friday.
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April 27, 2026
The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate small business committee sent letters last week to major retailers and shipping carriers asking whether they planned to pass on to consumers tariff refunds they receive.
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April 27, 2026
A Chinese chipmaker has told a D.C. federal judge that the U.S. Department of Defense lacks evidence to support labeling the company a Chinese military company, saying its products are designed solely for civilian commercial and industrial uses.
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April 27, 2026
The U.S. Court of International Trade on Monday ordered the U.S. Department of Commerce to try again to justify its use of Romania as a surrogate for determining market prices of a Chinese pool chemical for purposes of an antidumping order.
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April 27, 2026
A panel of the D.C. Circuit Monday questioned how competitive Alstom actually was in its bid to build train sets for Brightline West's forthcoming high-speed rail project between Las Vegas and Southern California, as the locomotive manufacturer argued it would have had a shot if not for a Buy America waiver granted to rival bidder Siemens.
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April 27, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week tackled a fresh mix of deal litigation, procedural disputes and fiduciary duty claims, with several rulings and filings underscoring the court's continued focus on contractual precision, forum enforcement and the limits of stockholder challenges.
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April 27, 2026
Attorneys from McCarter & English LLP, Womble Bond Dickinson and Georgiou Partnership LLP who represent a U.S.-based swimming pool parts manufacturer won an additional $1.3 million in attorney fees for their efforts to collect a more than $17 million judgment against a Chinese rival.
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April 27, 2026
A U.K. industry group urged the country's government to prepare a "trade bazooka," including a package of countermeasures to safeguard the economy from outside shocks such as U.S. tariffs and the economic fallout from the Iran war.
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April 27, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce said Monday that it has opened an investigation into whether imports of pipes known as oil country tubular goods from Austria, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates are being sold in the U.S. at unfair prices.
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April 27, 2026
Indian solar cells entering the U.S. are facing potential triple-digit antidumping duties, while those cells from Laos and Indonesia could be hit with lower duties, after the imports from all three countries were preliminarily found Monday to be sold at unfair prices.
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April 27, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opted not to take up a petition asking it to resolve whether countries that agree to arbitrate an international dispute are also waiving their right to assert sovereign immunity in subsequent litigation to recognize a foreign judgment confirming an arbitral award.
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April 27, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review the Second Circuit's finding that a Lebanese bank is subject to the personal jurisdiction of New York courts on claims over alleged assistance to Hezbollah by a bank it acquired, a case the Lebanese bank had argued raises due process questions.
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April 24, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case on Tuesday with implications for U.S. companies doing business with foreign governments, and decide whether the Ninth Circuit was right to reinstate an Alien Tort Statute suit alleging that Cisco Systems Inc. helped the Chinese government's allegedly unlawful crackdown on the Falun Gong religious movement.
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April 24, 2026
The D.C. Circuit refused Friday to allow the U.S. International Trade Commission to revive an investigation into a former expert witness retained by Qualcomm for allegedly breaching a protective order, rejecting the agency's arguments that his suit to end the inquiry was brought both too late and too early.
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April 24, 2026
A European winemaker slammed attempts by a U.S. importer and its Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys to "recast a frivolous appeal as a good-faith effort," saying they should have to pay monetary sanctions for pursuing what the Ninth Circuit called a "self-indulgent" appeal of a valid arbitration award.