Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
CIT Overturns CBP: Pets are not “Items or Personal Effects”
The United States Court of International Trade recently overturned a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) denial of a protest, in which Quaker Pet Group, LLC contested CBP’s classification of its pet carriers. The…
The United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and fully re-impose nuclear sanctions on Iran within 180 days.
On Tuesday President Trump announced that the United States will exit the multilateral Iran nuclear deal and fully re-impose sanctions on Iran. After the announcement, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC),…
Trump Reconsiders TPP Stance, May Have Renewed Interest in Multilateral Agreement
Ahead of talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scheduled for this week, President Trump told a group of governors and lawmakers in a meeting on Thursday, April 12th that the United States was looking to rejoin…
Treasury Declines to Name China a Currency Manipulator
On April 13, 2018, the Treasury Department released its biannual report to Congress on the Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States, which declined to formally label…
UK Unpacks Encryption Controls
Despite the fact that export controls on dual-use goods derive from international agreements such as the Wassenaar Arrangement, significant differences can be seen as controls are implemented by different countries.…