17 Apr
Member News

Possible Retaliatory Duties On Products From The European Union

The USTR has published a preliminary list of Harmonized Tariff Schedule (“HTS”) codes on which the USTR may impose future Section 301 duties in connection with products imported from the European Union. The list includes products in the aerospace sector as well as a wide range of consumer goods, including food and beverage products, handbags, textiles and apparel, and other items. The proposed Section 301 tariffs on EU products reflect the United States’ response to subsidies granted by the EU...

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17 Apr
Chapter News, News

Digital Single Market: European Commission welcomes European Parliament’s vote on new rules to improve fairness and transparency of online platforms

Strasbourg, 17 April 2019 Today, the European Parliament approved the new Regulation on platform-to-business trading practices that is aimed at establishing a fair, trusted and innovation-driven environment for businesses and traders when using online platforms. Vice-President for the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip, Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Elżbieta Bieńkowska, and Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Mariya Gabriel, welcomed the outcome of the vote in a joint statement: “We are delighted by the overwhelming support to the new...

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16 Apr
Member News

Tradewind Announces Credit Facility for Canine Screening Company in USA

Tradewind has closed a $1 million credit facility for a leading veteran-owned and -operated company based in the United States that provides canine screening and security services for the air cargo industry. The company conducts its services at every major international airport in the USA for the largest air cargo carriers in the sector, including Delta, American Airlines, Lufthansa, and Korea Air. The funding will help the canine solutions provider fulfill its capital needs for growth, both in the...

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16 Apr
Member News

So how did Switzerland establish a global hub for digital currencies and where is it heading?

Switzerland is THE Blockchain Nation and the Government is ready to support the developments with the relevant framework conditions. We are ready for the pace and the exchange with the private sector,” according to President of the Swiss Confederation Ueli Maurer. Switzerland has been ranked the most innovative country in the world for seven years in a rowand the Swiss Federal Council—our executive branch—intends to have Switzerland remain a leading country in technology, innovation, and research and development in every...

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16 Apr
Member News

The EU’s New Ethics Guidelines – What Does This Mean For AI?

By Victoria de Posson | FTI Consulting Last week the EU published its new ethics guidelines for trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI), ten months after the European Commission created its high-level expert group to look into the issue. Our Brussels team look at what future EU policy initiatives might arise as a consequence. While it might be somewhat early to speculate, we can already start to read between the lines and anticipate some potential upcoming initiatives concerning privacy, data, security, transparency, fairness...

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16 Apr
Brexit News, Chapter News, News, Uncategorized

Update by President Donald Tusk to the European Parliament; Report and concluding remark on the Special European Council (Art. 50) meeting on 10 April

  April 16, 2019 09:30 From this place I would like to say words of comfort and solidarity with the whole French nation in the face of the Paris tragedy. I say these words not only as the president of the European Council, but also as a citizen of Gdańsk, 90 percent destroyed and burnt, and later rebuilt. You will also rebuild your cathedral. From Strasbourg, the French capital of the European Union, I call on all the 28 Member States...

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15 Apr
Member News

EIB Climate Survey: Are companies really helping us lower our carbon footprint?

Ahead of the global climate conference COP24, which took place in Poland on 3-14 December 2018, the European Investment Bank launched a first-of-its-kind climate survey, in partnership with the global public opinion company YouGov, to find out how 25 000 citizens feel towards climate change in the European Union, the United States and China. Discover below some analysis and visualisations of the key findings from the fifth of six releases of this worldwide EIB climate survey. You can download the full results...

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12 Apr
Brexit News, Member News

Brexit Frustration: English Court Blocks EMA’s Attempt to Get Out of London HQ Lease

By Oliver FitzGerald | Mason Hayes & Curran, The  High Court of England and Wales ruled this month that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is not able to terminate the twenty-five year lease of its Canary Wharf headquarters in London. EMA relocated its headquarters to Amsterdam following Brexit and argued that the Lease, which has a current rent of £13 million per year, was terminated by ‘frustration’ as a result of Brexit. Introduction In this article, we look at the concept of...

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11 Apr
Member News

When, Where and Whether: The Confusing Law of Third-Party Evidence

By Benjamin J. Eichel & Matthew H. Adler | Pepper Hamilton  The U.S. Supreme Court has demonstrated with increasing frequency over the past 20 years a particular fascination with arbitration. There have been at least 20 Scotus cases in the past decade on arbitration, including three cases in the current term—two in the first week in October. By contrast, even though there remains far more cases in federal court than in arbitration, and even though personal jurisdiction is both a frequently...

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11 Apr
Member News, Trade & TTIP Related

WTO Dispute Settlement Panel’s Decision to Rule on National Security Exception May Have a Major Impact on Trump Administration’s Section 232 Tariffs

By Thompson Hine International Trade on April 11, 2019 A World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel ruling, Russia – Measures Concerning Traffic in Transit, issued last week on a member’s use of the WTO’s so-called “national security exception” under Article XXI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) may have a significant impact on the Trump administration’s application of that exception under U.S. law, Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, to impose tariffs on imports worldwide. Currently, the Trump...

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