In the November 19, 2008 Throne Speech, the Government of Canada signalled that it would revive legislation put forward in Parliament prior to the election relating to food safety and consumer product safety. The Throne...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that efective November 17, 2008, all shipments of firewood from Canada must have been heat treated prior to importation into the U.S. This requirement was set out in an order...
Tomorrow, I am giving a lecture at the Univeristy of Windsor, Centre for Transnational Law and Practice about NAFTA. As I was waiting for my flight, because Air Canada bumped me off the flight I was scheduled to take (why I...
The Counterfeit Blog posted the following post on September 27, 2008 -
EFF Sues USTR Over ACTA and FOIA
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Knowledge filed suit September 18 against the U.S. Trade...
The Wall Street Journal has reported about Boeing Co.'s $236.1 MILLION in punitive damages awarded by a jury in a lawsuit by ICO Global Communications Holdings made claims of fraud and breach of contract. This is addition...
On October 25, 2008, the Canada Border Services Agency published the following list of companies who have been approved for the Partners in Protection program (like C-TPAT) and have given permission for their names to be...
The latest news about the ability of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol to engage in search activities should cause travelers and senders of documents concern. Courthouse News Service reports that "The 9th Circuit upheld the...
The true story is probably yet to be reported and possibly the movie will follow. On October 17, 2008, the Canadian National Post newspaper printed an article about a Canadian - Iranian citizen who was arrested in...
I cannot tell if this yet another jab at Canadian softwood lumber exporters hidden under many layers of wood products.
The June 2008 Farm Bill includes amendments to the Lacey Act. Since the dawn of time, the Lacey...
On September 26, 2008, Senator Russ Feingold (D. – Wis) and Senator Maria Cantwell (D. – Wash) introduced the Traveller’s Privacy Protection Act of 2008 to place limits on laptop searches at the U.S. border. I have...
Laptop searches at the border is a topic that I frequently write about on this blog. The following article appears as a editorial in the Los Angeles Times on September 29, 2008:...
Starting on September 30, 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin to monitor transit movements of agricultural commodities going across the border from Canada to the United States. The new development arises as a...
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,...
This has been a topic that I have been writing about on this blog for a number of months.
The Canadian Bar Association has issued one of the best articles I have seen on what lawyers should be doing to protect their...
Trade Lawyers Blog co-founder, Susan Kohn Ross is quoted in the following article from Shipping Digest that may be located online at the following link - www.shippingdigest.com/news/article.asp.
No World System has posted a good summary of certain aspects of Joe Biden's voting and legislative record - noworldsystem.com/2008/08/30/joe-biden%E2%80%99s-pro-riaa-pro-fbi-tech-voting-record/
Joe Biden's voting record...
