United States: International Trade & Investment

Five foundational ISDS decisions reveal how investment tribunals balance Indigenous consultation rights under ILO Convention 169 with treaty protections for foreign mining investors. This analysis examines the evolving legal framework governing State obligations, social license requirements, and the circumstances under which community opposition triggers treaty liability.

This monthly update tracks the latest developments in Russia/Ukraine sanctions across US, EU, and UK jurisdictions, covering new designations, general license extensions, legislative proposals, and enforcement actions. The update also examines Russia's countermeasures, including shadow fleet expansion and legal restrictions on foreign investors, while highlighting international coordination efforts by Switzerland, Canada, and New Zealand.

Navigate the latest international trade developments including new executive orders on electrical grid equipment, FCC updates to covered lists for power inverters and robotic devices, FinCEN's finalized beneficial ownership reporting rules, and BIS restrictions on critical mineral exports. Discover how these regulatory changes impact compliance obligations across multiple sectors.

The U.S. government simultaneously extended sanctions relief to Syria while launching an aggressive economic campaign against Iran, marking a stark divergence in approach to two long-standing sanctions programs. Treasury's actions include removing Syria's State Sponsor of Terrorism designation and delisting HTS, while initiating "Operation Economic Outcast" targeting five sectors of Iran's economy with expanded secondary sanctions. These coordinated moves demonstrate the administration's willingness to purs

The Advanced Topics in Customs Compliance Conference (ATCC) is returning in 2027. According to organizers, the lessons from past years are clear: don’t wait to register.

U.S. life sciences policy toward China is evolving from list-based compliance to comprehensive capability control, integrating FDA pilots, trade measures, outbound-investment rules, and the BIOSECURE Act into a unified architecture. This shift accelerates domestic discovery and manufacturing while restricting channels for capital, data, IP, and know-how transfer to strategic competitors. Senior leaders must now treat national security as a core variable in product development, capital allocation, and transa

Bob Brewer of The Braumiller Group is joined by Victoria Holmes of the Dispatch to talk about global trade and drones​.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has released an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) that could reshape the information importers must collect, verify, and provide for goods entering the United States. CBP is considering requirements for identifying supply chain parties and implementing technology-enabled traceability. Although CBP has not yet proposed regulatory text, the notice is another clear example of the expanding universe of deeper supply chain visibility requirements, which pose special challenges for complex articles.

International trade policies now link labor rights with market access and supply chain continuity, transforming labor compliance from an internal HR matter into a critical business risk.