October 16, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
When Car Troubles Become Lemon Troubles
By Sergei Lemberg
There are few things more frustrating in life than not having a car you can depend on. After all, you need your vehicle to get to work, to take the kids to school and...
Posted in Consumer Protection Law, Canada, USA, India | No Comments
September 28, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The Asian Tribunal has reported that the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries will harmonize their customs procedures and documentation. The SAARC countries include Bangladesh, Bhutan,...
Posted in India, Border Security Initiatives, Customs Duties, Developing Countries, Import Controls, Free Trade Agreements, Free Trade Agreement Negotiations | No Comments
September 26, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On September 26, 2008, India successfully concluded talks on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) involving free trade of goods and services with South Korea. A Commerce Ministry source close to the...
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September 21, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
One of this issues for Canadian companies doing business in Asia is the degree to which Canadian firms can trust foreign judicial systems. This article refers to a report written by Political and Economic Risk Consultancy...
Posted in Anti-Corruption - Foreign Corrupt Practices Act/Corruption of Foreign Public Officials, South Korea, Thailand, India, China, Dispute Settlement, International Transactions, International Intellectual Property Protection | No Comments
September 10, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Bunty has written to me from India and has said:
The Nuclear Suppliers Group met at Vienna last week and on Saturday at an extended meeting released a statement confirming the waiver in favour of India requested by the USA....
Posted in India, Canada, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions | No Comments
September 07, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On September 6, 2008, the Nuclear Suppliers Group decided to revoke a 34 year old ban on nuclear-related trade with India and grant a waiver to allow nuclear trade with India by permitting a nuclear energy accord between India...
Posted in India, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions, Government Relations, USA, Canada | No Comments
September 01, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On August 28, 2008, India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei Darussalem, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) concluded six years of negotiations...
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August 26, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On August 26, 2008, Forbes.com posted an article entitled "China Faces Obstacles In Nuclear Energy". Go to the follow ing link for the full...
Posted in China, India, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions | No Comments
August 21, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Domain-b.com has reported today that the Indian courts have upheld seizures of corporate aircraft by India Customs. I am copying the article in full below for those who cannot read it at the following link -...
Posted in India, Customs Duties, Dispute Settlement | No Comments
August 02, 2008By: Susan Kohn Ross
If you are wondering whether goods coming to the U.S. are subject to antidumping duties, there is information available from the U.S. government which will help. See...
Posted in Trade Lawyers Blog, Agriculture, Africa, Australia / New Zealand, Canada, China, European Economic Community, India, South Korea, Thailand | No Comments
August 02, 2008By: Susan Kohn Ross
Donald Hatch entered into a plea agreement for export violations involving night vision equipment. Why question his intelligence? Well, first the company's website os reported to state that all shipments are made as gifts and are...
Posted in Border Security Initiatives, Africa, Australia / New Zealand, Canada, China, European Economic Community, India, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand | No Comments
August 02, 2008By: Susan Kohn Ross
Purely Juice is a pomegranate juice manufacturer based in California. It was ordered to pay a $1.5 million judgment to a competitor for false and misleading claims. Claiming that its suppliers had given it faulty Certificates of...
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August 01, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
It was reported today by Forbes online that India's Trade Minister Nath had said India was willing to accept a proposal to a dispute settlement mechanism to prevent the misuse and abuse of the special agricultural safeguard...
Posted in India, USA, Trade Remedies, WTO Developments, Agriculture | No Comments
July 29, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The “Doha Round” of multilateral trade talks at the World Trade Organization lapsed back into limbo on July 29, 2008 as an informal meeting of Ministers did not end in the acceptance of the compromise "package of elements".
If...
Posted in Trade Law, WTO Developments, Trade Remedies, Global Safeguards, Agriculture, Developing Countries, USA, India, China | No Comments
July 28, 2008By: Susan Kohn Ross
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) changed is a program in which it tested containers for fumigant and solvent levels before allowing officers to enter them for inspection purposes. The program was originally put in place two...
Posted in Trade Lawyers Blog, Border Security Initiatives, Africa, Australia / New Zealand, China, European Economic Community, India, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand | No Comments
July 26, 2008By: Susan Kohn Ross
As countries such as Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam continue their efforts to restrict Internet access to their citizens,...
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