Chapter News, Trade & TTIP Related

EU and U.S. agree to suspend all tariffs linked to the Airbus and Boeing disputes

The EU and U.S. agreed today to suspend all retaliatory tariffs on EU and U.S. exports imposed in the Airbus and Boeing disputes for a four-month period. The suspension allows both sides to focus on resolving this long-running dispute. It provides an important boost to EU exporters, since the U.S. had been authorised to raise tariffs on $7.5 billion of EU exports to the U.S. Similarly, EU tariffs will be suspended on some $4 billion worth of U.S. exports...

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Tradewind Finance Welcomes Daniel Najman & Greg Champion as their New VP of Sales in the U.S.

Tradewind Finance Welcomes Daniel Najman as Vice President of Sales based in Miami, FL Tradewind Finance is pleased to announce that Daniel Najman has joined the company as Vice President of Sales based in Miami, Florida. Najman brings years of experience in trade credit insurance and trade logistics to the role, as well as an extensive track record of dealings with Brazil and other international markets. As VP Sales, Najman will help expand the company’s client base, leveraging his industry...

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Loyens & Loeff | EU Tax Alert: Brexit, Digital Taxation, Lexel AB, DAC6

The new edition of the EU Tax Alert is available. With this publication we would like to keep you informed of the latest developments on EU tax law. Highlights in this edition: Brexit: State Aid, Direct Taxation, VAT & Customs: The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement EU public country-by-country reporting (CBCR) proposal developments EU list of ‘non-cooperative jurisdictions’ updated Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (European Parliament) calls for Commission’s immediate action on digital economy: European Digital Services Tax and...

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Strengthening EU-US Relations with Four New Projects

The Delegation of the European Union to the United States is pleased to announce that it has granted to distinguished partners funding for projects in support of strengthening transatlantic relations. For the next two years, these four grants will promote a broad range of opportunities for Americans and Europeans to engage and deepen their understanding on a range of issues that are of common interest and concern. MEET EU: Making Encounters, Engaging Transatlanticists Coordinated by the University of North Carolina at...

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IMF | How Countries Are Helping Small Businesses Survive COVID-19

The economic downturn caused by the pandemic has taken a painful toll on small businesses. Scores of retail businesses have permanently closed in cities around the world since the Great Lockdown in the spring of 2020. Small and medium enterprises have an out-sized impact on local economies. They account for half to two-thirds of private sector employment in the United States and the European Union, respectively, and contribute close to 40 percent of national income in emerging economies. But small companies face greater...

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MJV Technology & Innovation | What is API, and how to use it in your business?

API is an abbreviation for Application Programming Interface and tells how software elements will interact. APIs emerged in the early days of computer science as libraries for operating systems, allowing code sharing and modification. And although it was used to send messages between mainframes occasionally, its function was essentially to transmit data between local environments. The use of these interfaces as we know them today, based on open protocols, is recent and took shape almost three decades later. The fact is...

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USTR | Joint Statement of the European Union and the United States on the Large Civil Aircraft WTO Disputes

Released on March 5, 2021 | “The European Union and the United States today agreed on the mutual suspension for four months of the tariffs related to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Aircraft disputes. The suspension will cover all tariffs both on aircraft as well as on non-aircraft products, and will become effective as soon as the internal procedures on both sides are completed. “This will allow the EU and the US to ease the burden on their industries and workers and...

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Littler | Biden Administration Unveils Immigration Reform Bill

Last week, President Biden’s comprehensive immigration reform proposal, the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, was introduced in the House and Senate. As officials in the administration initially reported, the provisions for the proposed legislation indeed include a pathway to citizenship for noncitizens physically present in the United States as of January 1, 2021 (including DACA holders), along with more protections for employment-based immigration. The Act has been regarded a moderate plan meant to attract bipartisan support and would modernize many facets of the...

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Portolano Cavallo | Foreign investment control regulations: extension of COVID-19–related rules and new list and definition of strategic assets with a brief focus on the health industry

This article is part of Portolano Cavallo’s “INFORM@Corporate” Newsletter. Click here to subscribe. | At the end of 2020, important regulatory measures regarding Italian foreign investment control regulations (known as the Golden Powers) were enacted: (i) a revised list and definition of critical and strategic assets in sectors relevant for the purposes of these regulations entered into force with effect from January 14, 2021, and (ii) the COVID-19 emergency rules providing for a temporary broadening of the scope of notification duties (which,...

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EU Parliament | Carbon leakage: prevent firms from avoiding emissions rules

The Parliament is discussing a carbon levy on imported goods to stop companies moving outside the EU to avoid emissions standards, a practice known as carbon leakage. As European industry struggles to recover from the Covid-19 crisis and the economic pressure due to cheap imports from trading partners, the EU is trying to honour its climate commitments, whilst keeping jobs and production chains at home. Discover how the EU’s recovery plan prioritises creating a sustainable and climate-neutral Europe An EU carbon levy...

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