On December 15, 2021, President Joseph Biden signed “Executive Order on Imposing Sanctions on Foreign Persons Involved in the Global Illicit Drug Trade,” an order finding that “the trafficking into the United States of illicit drugs, including fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, is causing the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans annually,
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Government Measures Taken in Response to COVID-19: Country-by-Country Guide 2.0
Since April 2020, we have collaborated with our foreign law firm partners to provide a chart summarizing the economic, labor and employment, health and safety, and export and import measures taken by governments around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. After a short break, we are back with version 2.0 of our chart…
U.S. and Brazilian Governments Update Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation
On October 19, 2020, the United States and Brazil agreed to an updated protocol for the 2011 Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation (ATEC) with three new annexes: Customs Administration and Trade Facilitation, Good Regulatory Practices, and Anticorruption. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said that the protocol “uses the existing ATEC to establish common standards…