China Daily is reporting that Microsoft successfully sues an intellectual property rights infringer in a Shanghai Court. The report indicates that Daxhong Insurance has been ordered to pay Microsoft 2.17 yuan ($317,900) as...
During the week of April 19, 2010, Canada and the EU scheduled the third round of negotiations of the Canada- European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in Ottawa, Canada. On April 20, 2010, Canada's...
Many North American business people (and business people from the far corners of the Earth) go into China with blinders on. They see the money signs in front of them and do not look for the dangers.
The convictions on March 29,...
I have been intending to write another Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act (Canada) ("FEMA") post for some time. I informed an U.S export controls lawyer of this intention earlier this week as I was being asked a FEMA...
On March 12, 2010 (posted on the CITT web-site on March 22, 2010), the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) released a decision in the National Food Distribution Centre (EP-2009-002) in which the CITT refused to grant an...
On March 18, 2010, in the case of BMT Fleet Technology Limited v. Department of Public Works and Government Services Canada (CITT File No. PR-2009-063), the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) dismissed the case because...
A number of customs attorneys in the United States have been warning me that the United States Customs and Border Patrol (USCBP) are stepping up enforcement activities under NAFTA. I have been informed by very reliable sources...
Most Canadian businesses do not relish a visit from a Canadian tax auditor and also do not view with anticipation a fax from the United States Customs and Border Patrol (USCBP) asking to come for a visit to conduct a NAFTA...
Recently, I have been informed of two NAFTA verifications being conducted by the Canadian Government in order to verify the correctness of NAFTA certificates of origin provided by U.S. companies and one NAFTA verification being...
It is embarrassing - Canada signed the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (the ICSID or the Washington Convention) on December 15, 2006 and passed legislation granting...
Keeping track of the documents provided to any auditor (income tax, sales tax, customs duties, antidumping duties, etc.) is very important. I cannot say how many times I have come in after an auditor's visit to a new client and...
There is a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute that has been flying under world radar because it is between two developing countries, the Philippines and Thailand and a "sin product", being cigarettes. "Thailand — Customs and...
Sandler Travis is reporting that two separate U.S.-based coalitions of U.S. steel industry companies are alleging that antidumping duty orders on certain steel goods from China are being circumvented. These screams have been made...
I have told many clients, the laws of China are different than the laws of their home jurisdiction (e.g., Canada). What may not get you into trouble in Canada, may get you into trouble in China. That being said, criminal laws...
On February 1, 2010, Vietnam filed its first dispute with the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) in respect of United States' antidumping measures against certain frozen and canned warmwater shrimp....
On February 4, 2010 China filed a Request for Consultations with the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) regarding the continuation of 16% antidumping duties on footwear by the European Union. This is not...
