31 Oct
Member News, Trade & TTIP Related

Jaguar Freight | The Weekly Roar: Ho! Ho! Hold the Holidays

In this week’s Roar: Where U.S.-China will lead us, the Supreme Court and the IEEPA, a new rush on airfreight from China, don’t expect improvements in the Red Sea (yet), and a new framework for tracking emissions. The impact of the U.S.-China trade war may be worse than most realize. Last week, we covered the start of U.S. port fees on Chinese-linked vessels and the announced 100% tariff on all Chinese imports. And, how China slapped back with its own...

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29 Oct
Member News

Littler | Policy Week in Review

By Shannon Meade Executive Director, Workplace Policy Institute, Jim Paretti, Alex MacDonald, and Maury Baskin, Shareholders, Littler Washington, D.C. NLRB Challenges California Over New Labor Law  The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Thursday filed suit against the state of California and the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California over the state’s newly enacted labor law (AB 288), which grants broad authority to the state’s PERB to regulate private sector labor disputes...

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27 Oct
Member News

Littler | From Hashtag to HR in the EU: Managing Political Opinions in the Workplace

By Alison Finn, Sr. Associate, Littler Dublin & Guillaume Desmoulin, Shareholder Littler Paris The dramatic growth of international conflict and significant political change has created a situation where personal expression and professional environments now often collide.  For international employers, this shift presents a pressing and complex challenge—how to manage political expression in a way that encourages individual viewpoints, while maintaining a respectful and inclusive environment. The growth of “culture clash”  In today’s increasingly polarized climate, political opinions are no longer confined to private...

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27 Oct
Member News, Trade & TTIP Related

Jaguar Freight | White House Announces Reciprocal Trade Agreements with SE Nations and an Update on Canada

It was an eventful weekend for trade news. The White House announced new reciprocal trade agreements with Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and a framework for Thailand, under which these nations will eliminate import tariffs on U.S. goods. Malaysia: President Trump and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim finalized a reciprocal trade deal during Trump’s visit to Kuala Lumpur. The existing 19% IEEPA reciprocal tariff on Malaysian goods remains unchanged. Vietnam: The U.S. reached an agreement with Vietnam maintaining the 20% reciprocal tariffs on Vietnamese...

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22 Oct
Member News, New York Related News

Trepp | Work-from-Home’s Impact on Office … Yawn

It's been five-and-a-half years since the onerous Covid lockdowns were instituted across most of the country, devastating the office, retail, and hotel sectors. While the latter two sectors have come back, the office market continues to feel the pain. But it's not uniform, as the best buildings in most areas are doing just fine. It's the others that aren't quite there yet—t's not clear whether they'll ever return. The work-from-home, or WFH, movement might have played a role, but exactly...

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03 Oct
Member News, Trade & TTIP Related

Jaguar Freight | A Looming Court Decision on Tariffs, Changing Trade Lanes, and the U.S. Warehousing Crunch Continues

Global Ports The Headlines: U.S. trade policy is having a notable impact on global trade, despite months of delays and uncertainty. Data shows that in August, China began shipping more to ASEAN countries and less to the U.S., while also bringing attention to the issue of illegal transshipment. The upcoming U.S. port fees are also reshaping trade lanes, with many Chinese-built ships being rerouted to non-U.S. trades. The dynamics of the global supply chain trade (and the ports it relies...

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02 Oct
Member News

ACG Resources | The Importance Of Staying Focused At The Office

By this point in human history the science is undeniable: multitasking is not your friend. Employees should do it to whatever degree they are required but beyond that they should not seek out multitasking because the facts show it kills productivity. The average desk job employee loses 2.1 hours a day to distractions and interruptions; that adds up to over a full day of work every week. Being distracted by incoming calls or emails can lower employees’ IQ by as...

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02 Oct
Member News

Wilson Sonsini | California Enacts Major AI Safety Legislation for Frontier AI Developers

On September 29, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 53, the Transparency in Frontier AI Act (TFAIA), the first-of-its-kind AI legislation in the U.S. that will require large AI developers to publicly disclose how they plan to mitigate potentially “catastrophic risks” posed by advanced frontier AI models. The law builds on recommendations from the June 2025 report from the Joint California AI Policy Working Group and is a pared-back successor to last year’s unsuccessful Senate...

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17 Sep
Chapter News

IMF | Global Debt Remains Above 235% of World GDP

By: Vitor Gaspar, Carlos Eduardo Goncalves, Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro, IMF Decline in private lending offsets increase in public borrowing; notable differences persist across countries and income groups. Global debt has stabilized, though it remains at an elevated level, as a continued reduction in private-sector lending offset greater borrowing by governments. Total debt was little changed last year, just above 235 percent of global gross domestic product, according to the latest update of the IMF’s Global Debt Database. Private debt declined to under 143 percent of GDP, the...

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17 Sep
Chapter News

ECB | What resilience takes: strengthening the financial system in an era of heightened risk

Keynote speech by Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Resilience Conference hosted by De Nederlandsche Bank At a time of digital and geopolitical disruptions, enhancing our financial sector’s resilience is critical to protect the stability and prosperity of our economy. Money is ultimately a matter of trust. That trust rests on the stability of prices, the stability of the financial system and the smooth functioning of payments that keep our economies moving every day. These...

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