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Husch Blackwell LLP

Week Twenty-Three in Trade

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The House and Senate passed the tax bill, which includes a provision to end the de minimis exemption for all e-commerce effective July 1, 2027. The bill now goes to the President for his signature. The de minimis exemption...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

China's Sweeping 2025 Anti-Unfair Competition Law Revision: Far-Reaching Impacts on Brand Protection, Data Governance, eCommerce,...

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On June 27, 2025, China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee enacted a landmark revision to the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (AUCL), effective October 15, 2025. This sweeping update is the most significant since the...more

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Postal and De Minimis Tariff Changes Coming - New Trump' 47 Rules

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Postal and de minims imports are ground zero for e-commerce, drug interdiction, customs duty evasion, and the geopolitical tensions between the United States and China. This type of international traffic lies squarely at the...more

White & Case LLP

United States Begins to Restrain Cross-Border E-commerce

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E-commerce platforms and others could face significant challenges due to recent and proposed changes to de minimis entry (the process for importing products without tariffs and with simplified customs procedures if the total...more

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As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns: December 2024

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Welcome to the December 2024 issue of “As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns,” our monthly newsletter where we compile essential updates from the customs and trade world over the past month. We bring you the most recent and...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

CPSC Calls for an Investigation into Shein and Temu

In an open letter published on September 3, 2024, Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Commissioners Peter Feldman and Douglas Dziak called for an investigation into foreign-owned e-commerce platforms Shein and Temu to...more

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As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns: October 2024

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Welcome to the October 2024 issue of “As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns,” our monthly newsletter where we compile essential updates from the customs and trade world over the past month. We bring you the most recent and...more

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Administration Action Could Unravel the De Minimis Exception for Goods From China

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Many e-commerce retailers are closely monitoring increasing bipartisan criticism of the Section 321 de minimis program. This program, which provides an exemption for goods valued at $800 or less destined to a single person on...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

China Pilots Relaxed Foreign Ownership Limits for Data Center and Other Value-Added Telecom Services

China’s telecommunications regulator, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), has announced a pilot scheme that would allow foreign investors to establish wholly owned subsidiaries in Beijing, Shanghai,...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - April 2024 - Maximizing Duty Savings Series –Section 321 Duty Exemptions or De Minimis...

Welcome to the second installment in our series on duty-saving strategies. After discussing the utilization of Foreign Trade Zones and Bonded Warehouses in our previous article, we now turn to Section 321, a topic of...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - April 2024 - De Minimis An Ever-Growing Problem of De Maximus Proportion

From Wikipedia: De minimis is a Latin expression meaning “pertaining to minimal things”, normally in the terms de minimis non curat praetor. (“The praetor does not concern himself with trifles”) or de minimis non curat lex...more

Morgan Lewis

New Measures for Online Advertising in China: What You Need to Know

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China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) recently issued the Measures for the Administration of Internet Advertising (New Measures), which will take effect on May 1, 2023, and replace the Interim Measures for...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

International Trade Enforcement Roundup – February 2023

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Russia - Russian National Charged with Supplying U.S. Technology to the Russian and North Korean Governments (DOJ Action) Those involved. Ilya Balakaev, Russian national. Charges and penalties. Conspiracy to...more

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Global Perspective on Patenting of Blockchain, Crypto, and DeFi Technologies

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The proliferation of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications in recent years has been accompanied by a surge in patent filings worldwide by blockchain tech developers. And, despite some early...more

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Part 5 of 5: Gazing into the future of China’s data protection law

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China’s data protection laws have been developing actively in the recent years. This article identifies some other Chinese legal instruments which are relevant to the protection of personal information, and discusses the...more

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China's NMPA Launches 1Yr Nationwide Enforcement Campaign Targeting Illegal Personal Care and Cosmetic Products

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China's National Medical Product Administration (“NMPA”), the administrative body responsible for regulating pharmaceuticals, medical devices and cosmetics in China, has recently launched a campaign to enforce the Regulation...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Proposed Chinese Ecommerce Law Amendment Calls for Harsher IP Infringement Penalties for Marketplace Operators

We recently issued a reminder of the September 1 effective date of China’s new Data Security Law (DSL) and its potential impact on all business operators in China, including multinational corporations. But the DSL is not the...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 9.7.2021 | Top Story: El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin as National Currency

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Welcome to B-Day, the beginning of the grand cryptocurrency experiment for El Salvador, which “became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday.” Predictably, “the launch got off to a bumpy...more

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[Webinar] Controls on Chinese Outbound Investments in the US and in the European Countries and Legal Issues for Global Digital...

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Join us on August 26, 2021 for a virtual event held jointly by Fangda Partners (China) and McDermott Will & Emery (US and Europe). In this webinar we will be focusing on different controls on Chinese outbound investments from...more

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Senate passes online country of origin labeling requirements under the USICA

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On 8 June 2021, the Senate passed the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), which contains a wide range of provisions aimed at improving the United States’ global economic competitiveness, particularly toward China. ...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.15.2021 | Top Story: Stripe Hits $95 Billion Valuation, Tops Among Startups

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Six-hundred million in its latest funding round means that payments company Stripe’s valuation now tops $95 billion, “making it the most valuable start-up in the United States”....more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.8.2021 | Top Story: Senate Passes $1.9 Trillion Covid Relief Bill

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The Senate passed its version of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid stimulus bill this weekend “after a grueling 27-hour session” that featured “the longest vote in modern Senate history.” ...more

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Transportation, Trade and CBP: Looking Ahead to the Biden Era

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Few U.S. government agencies spent more time in the spotlight during the four years of the Trump Administration than U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) – the component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.24.2020 | Top Story: Biden Taps Former Fed Chair Yellen as Treasury Pick

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Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen is “poised to become the first female Treasury secretary and one of few people to ever have wielded economic power from the White House, the Federal Reserve and the president’s cabinet.” If...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.19.2020 | Top Story: ConocoPhillips Buys Oil Producer Concho Resources in Deal Worth Nearly $10B

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ConocoPhillips is doubling down on its commitment to the Midland basin by buying Concho Resources Inc. in “an all-stock transaction valued at $9.7 billion,” even “as the American shale-drilling industry is facing a downturn...more

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