In This Week's Issue
BIS Ready to Accept License Applications for Transferred Items
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is ready to start accepting export applications
for aircraft and gas engines transferred to the Commerce Control List (CCL) from the...
CAFC Rejects Patent Challenge against Nintendo’s Wii
Merely filing suit in federal court to protect a patent is not sufficient to establish the
existence of a “domestic industry” under the unfair import provisions in Section 337 of...
Congress Working on Bipartisan Fast-Track Legislation
Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate have started work on legislation to
grant the president fast-track negotiating authority – also known as Trade Promotion...
Hirschhorn Defends Higher Fences Around More Products
Amidst industry concern that the Obama administration’s export control reforms are
putting higher fences around less sensitive exports instead of around a “smaller...
Comments on U.S.-EU Trade Pact All Over the Map
U.S. trade officials pondering the structure and scope of a U.S.-European Union (EU)
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) have their work cut out for them...
Lawmakers Positive About U.S.-EU Trade Talks
A House Ways and Means trade subcommittee hearing May 16 on a U.S.-EU free trade
agreement revealed that even lawmakers traditionally opposed to free trade deals seem...
WTO Formally Taps Azevedo for Director-General Post
The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) General Council formally selected Brazilian
Ambassador Roberto Azevedo to be its next director-general (DG) at a May 14 meeting...
Congress, Administration Urged to Tackle Indian Policies
India’s mercantile policies are beginning to rank with China’s as a subject that Congress
and the Obama administration should tackle. “India’s recent embrace of innovation...
CIT Panel Gives Firm Another Shot at Byrd Duties
A three-judge panel of the Court of International Trade (CIT) gave the U.S. subsidiary of
a Taiwanese plastics firm May 10 another chance to claim it is eligible to receive Byrd...
Briefs: Justice, USTR, Export Enforcement, Steel Pipe, Ammonium Nitrate
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