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Digital Transformation: eSignature and ePayment News and Trends - May/June 2025

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Today’s ever-shifting business environment means that consumers, businesses, employers, and employees all expect to transact digitally. To remain efficient and competitive, companies must digitally transform their businesses....more

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Customs De Minimis Ending in 2027 – Big Beautiful Bill Impact Analysis for Supply Chains

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Global supply chains have grown reliant on the de minimis exemption for duty-free entry of low-value goods in recent years, particularly in retail and e-commerce. The newly passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Bill”) will...more

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

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Navigating the Accessibility Improvement Act: Germany's Implementation of the European Accessibility Act

On June 28, 2025 the Accessibility Improvement Act (Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz ("BFSG")), Germany's implementing act of the European Accessibility Act ("EAA"), will come into force, imposing a whole range of new...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

Akerman LLP - SALT Insights

What’s Next for the Evolution of Public Law 86-272?

For over 65 years, Public Law 86-272 has dictated a state’s ability to assert income tax on an out-of-state business. While the 1959 federal law predated the emergence of e-commerce and digital services and could not have...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Washington’s Digital Ad Tax Enacted: Is Litigation Now Inevitable?

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On May 20, 2025, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 5814, a sweeping tax bill that expands Washington’s retail sales and use tax to digital advertising services and a range of high-tech and IT...more

Allen Matkins

Forget Tempered Optimism – Industrial’s Outlook is Positive

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The industrial development pipeline in Northern California shows a notable uptick in the next 12 months, highlighting continued strength in the sector there, particularly for last-mile delivery and AI-driven facilities....more

Holland & Knight LLP

Ley 2439 de 2024: Modificaciones al estatuto del consumidor en Colombia

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El Congreso promulgó la Ley 2439 de 2024 "[P]or medio de la cual se modifica la Ley 1480 de 2011 y se crean medidas de protección en favor del consumidor de comercio electrónico". Entre los cambios más relevantes introducidos...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Regulation of Payment Services Law Comes into Effect

On June 6, 2024, the Regulation of Payment Services and Payment Initiation Law came into effect. Relevant entities may now submit license applications for providing payment and payment initiation services....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Georgia Online Marketplace Updates Prove Controversial

An update to a Georgia law regulating high-volume third-party sellers on ecommerce platforms that takes effect July 1, 2024 has proved controversial for wrapping in not only sales “through” the platform but also sales made by...more

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Legal Considerations for GCs and CFOs in the Fashion and Retail Industry in 2024

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The fashion and retail industry experienced another year of considerable change in 2023. As advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) spurred innovation within the industry, consumers and regulators worldwide called for...more

Perkins Coie

Great Cancellations: Kentucky’s New Subscription Law and FTC’s Expansion of the Negative Option Rule

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As the subscription economy continues to grow towards a predicted $1.5 trillion by 2025, the number of laws and regulations with which a business offering subscriptions must comply also continues to grow. The focus of these...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

What Businesses Need to Plan for in 2024

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From the shifts in e-commerce litigation to the impending implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act, below are some key legal updates that are crucial for businesses to be aware of as 2024 approaches... Originally...more

Venable LLP

FTC Releases Proposed Rule Targeting “Junk” Fees

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This week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a Proposed Rule, “Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees.” The Proposed Rule comes after the FTC solicited comments through its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FTC Notifies Online Marketplaces of Obligations Under INFORM Act

On June 20, the FTC announced that it has sent letters to 50 online marketplaces nationwide notifying them about their obligations to comply with the new Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces...more

Venable LLP

New Law Regulating Online Marketplaces Will Impact Sellers, Too

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Starting June 27, operators of online marketplaces will need to comply with a new federal statute, the Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Market Retail Marketplaces for Consumers Act or INFORM Act. The...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Online Marketplaces: It’s Time Track, Verify and Disclose Seller Info

A new set of California laws will require online marketplaces to gather verifiable identifying information about high volume third party sellers, or else boot them off the platform. The laws, which seek to combat the resale...more

BakerHostetler

The INFORM Act Passes; Combating Counterfeiting with Transparency in Online Sales

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The recent passage of the Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers Act (INFORM Act) bears significant implications for brand owners and online marketplaces. For brand owners, the...more

Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP

Update: INFORM Act to Protect Against Online Counterfeiters: What the New Law Means for Brand Owners and Consumers

The Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers Act (the INFORM Act) was signed into law by President Biden on December 29, 2022. A positive step in the fight against online...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Ohio Passes Version of The INFORM Consumers Act

Ohio has taken a step to protect brands that are dealing with unauthorized, counterfeit and gray market sales from online marketplaces. Governor Mike DeWine recently signed the bipartisan Ohio House Bill 272 (H.B. 272) into...more

Foster Garvey PC

Sports & Entertainment Spotlight - May 2021

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Hope is in the air (not to mention copious amounts of tree pollen) here in New York – and that’s to say nothing of the Knicks’ hardwood resurgence, the Giants’ highly-acclaimed moves in last week’s NFL Draft and the Yankees’...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Maryland Is First State to Enact Digital Advertising Tax

Maryland enacted a state tax on digital advertising gross revenues on February 12, after overriding the governor’s veto. The passed law, which is the first of its kind in the United States, imposes “a tax on certain annual...more

Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP

INFORM Consumers Act Introduced to Target Online Counterfeiters

The INFORM (Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces) Consumers Act was introduced on the Senate floor on March 23, 2021. This bill would require greater accountability and transparency from the...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

UAE’s New Consumer Protection Law: An End to Direct Marketing?

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The new legislation extends both the protections available to consumers, as well as the obligations applicable to e-commerce retailers. With its recent implementation of a new consumer protection law, the United Arab...more

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