Insights on International Trade & Investment

Your company has been asked by a customer to certify that its products manufactured in US plants are in compliance with “Buy American” requirements. How does your company respond?

Your company has been asked by a customer to certify that its products manufactured in US plants are in compliance with “Buy American” requirements. How does your company respond?

In 2014, the Departments of State and Commerce implemented final rules that overhauled 11 United States Munitions List (USML) Categories. These changes have affected a wide range of industries.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security released their much-anticipated regulations governing trade with Cuba, and they were published in the Federal Register and became effective on January 16, 2015.

Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development announced an enhanced Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy when it released a report entitled “Doing Business the Canadian Way: A Strategy to Advance Corporate Social Responsibility in Canada’s Extractive Sector Abroad.”

Following up from the Executive Order 13685 which effectively banned US trade and investment with Crimea, the Department of the Treasury has just issued General License 5.

The United States and the European Union imposed additional sanctions on Russia and Crimea.

In a live press conference yesterday, President Barack Obama announced the beginning to a thaw in more than 50 years of chilly relations with Cuba.

On November 7, 2014, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amended its Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to impose license requirements on the export, re-export, or transfer (in-country) of certain items to or within Venezuela when intended for a “military end use”

Sixteen Arent Fox LLP practice areas have been recognized in the 2015 “Best Law Firms” rankings.

US Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP’s) Office of Regulatory Audit will be hosting a webinar on Thursday, October 9, 2014 from 2:00 pm–3:30 pm Eastern Time to provide an overview of its Focused Assessment (FA) Program.

Import managers and compliance personnel can now be held personally liable in circumstances other than fraud for imports that violate US custom laws.

Investment Services Targeted, Sectoral Sanctions Move Debt Sanctions from 90 to 30 days, Certain Oil Exploration/Production Exports and Services Prohibited

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As the crisis in Ukraine intensifies and broadens, more foreign investment is likely to find itself caught in the crossfire. The situation raises novel questions about the application of Ukraine’s many investment treaties in the context of armed conflict and belligerent occupation.

After announcing planned additional sanctions in the energy and military end-use sectors, the European Union and the United States both made good on their promises.

On July 16, 2014, the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) escalated Russian sanctions by issuing “Sectoral Sanctions” — prohibitions on certain finance related transactions with certain entities, including two major Russian banks and two oil and natural gas producers.

Legal 500 US has rated 40 Arent Fox LLP attorneys as national leaders in their field.

The US Department of Justice recently announced that Fokker Services BV (FSBV), a Dutch aerospace services provider, agreed to forfeit $10.5 million to the United States.

Robust compliance programs are the best defense to a False Claims Act investigation.

The Buy America constraints of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) which, for the first time, imposed a domestic preference provision that required all iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in any project funded wholly or partially by the ARRA be produced in the U.S.

Chambers USA recognized 31 Arent Fox LLP attorneys as leaders in their field.

In a closely watched case, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has concluded that officers and employees of a foreign government-owned company may be “foreign officials” for purposes of the anti-bribery prohibitions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).