Hot Topics in International Trade - Tariff Mitigation Strategies
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Daily Compliance News: March 7, 2025, The No Jail Time Edition
Adapting to Tariffs and Other Trade Policy Shifts Under the Trump Administration
A Brief Primer on Tariffs Under the Trump Administration
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[Podcast] Keith Matthews and Chris Wozniak: Talking Ag Biotech Episode 5
Law Firm ILN-telligence Podcast | Episode 61: Diego Martinez Berlanga and Luis Lavalle, Martinez Berlanga Abogados, Mexico
WorldSmart: The Move to Mexico— Why Companies are Setting Sights on Mexico Post COVID
Hot Topics in International Trade Braumiller Law Group & Consulting Group Podcasts
[Podcast] USMCA in Review, with C.J. Mahoney, Former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
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WorldSmart: The Impact of the USMCA on International Business in Mexico
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On June 1, 2025, Mexico implemented a sweeping Judicial Reform that changes the very foundation of how justice is administered in the country. Judges, magistrates, and justices are now chosen through popular elections—a major...more
OVERVIEW - On 1 June 2025, Mexico held its first-ever nationwide elections to appoint of 2,681 national and local judges by popular vote. This unprecedented process was marked by low voter turnout, a high rate of invalid...more
The United States has prevailed in a dispute against Mexico under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) concerning genetically modified (GM) corn....more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on December 20, 2024, that the United States prevailed in its dispute under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) challenging certain Mexican biotechnology...more
US Case Law Update - US Supreme Court Decides That Courts, Not Arbitrators, Must Resolve Questions Over Conflicting Contracts - In May 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important ruling on the “gateway” issue of...more
Note: On Sept. 15, 2024, the “Decree amending, adding, and repealing various provisions of the Constitution of the United Mexican States on the Federal Judiciary” (the “judicial reform” or “reform”) was published in the...more
Nota: El 15 de septiembre de 2024, fue publicado en el Diario Oficial de la Federación (“DOF”) el “Decreto por el que se reforman, adicionan y derogan diversas disposiciones de la Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos...more
As has been widely reported, Mexico recently adopted a constitutional amendment to overhaul its judiciary—most notably requiring popular elections for judges at all levels of the Mexican court system. Observers have widely...more
15 September 2024 was a landmark day for Mexico as President López Obrador’s controversial judicial reform (the “Judicial Reform”) was signed into law, making Mexico one of the few countries in the world to elect its...more
The Government of Mexico, in a December 2020 decree, required relevant regulatory authorities to (1) “revoke and refrain from granting permits” for the release of “genetically modified corn seeds” into the environment; and...more
From tariffs on dairy and solar products to rules of origin for automobiles, the three parties to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”) have disagreed on a variety of issues since the agreement came into force...more
On August 31, 2022, the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare issued a regulation changing the Federal Attorney General’s Office for the Defense of Labor (Procuraduría Federal de la Defensa del Trabajo, known as PROFEDET) to...more
Over the last year, several Latin American countries, including Chile, Peru and Mexico, have discussed various measures that, if adopted, could materially affect the mining, energy and natural resource sectors. Shearman &...more
As covered by the news, Mexico and Canada have joined forces to challenge the United States’ strict interpretation of some of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement´s (USMCA or Agreement) Automotive Rules of Origin (ROO)....more
In Mexico, disputes involving technological assets tend mainly to concern the unauthorised manufacture, use and sale of software and inventions. Unfortunately, Mexico is a country that faces a serious piracy problem, of both...more
On March 10, Mexico’s amended Electricity Industry Law entered into force, introducing preferences for the Mexican state-owned utility, Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), with respect to the supply of electricity to the...more
After more than two years of deliberation, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement [T-MAC in Mexico] will enter into force on July 1, 2020. The three-nation agreement includes a key element employers may want to take note...more
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, since March 18, 2020, activities from the different jurisdictional bodies in Mexico have been suspended. This suspension has been extended so far until June 1, 2020.1 Consequently, a likely...more
The updated USMCA was signed on December 10, 2019. These are not business-as-usual times in the trading world. As we know, there is the ongoing trade war with China, Brazil and Argentina are back in the steel and aluminum...more
In October 2019, JAMS and the Arbitration Center of Mexico (CAM) jointly organized an academic event at the InterContinental Presidente Mexico City. The event, titled “Arbitration and Mediation: Conflict Management Tools for...more
About a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border, a group of binational attorneys gathered for a roundtable discussion in bustling Tijuana, Mexico, to strategize over a common goal: how to bring alternative dispute resolution (ADR)...more
The North American Free Trade Agreement ("NAFTA") enables Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. investors to bring arbitrations against the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. governments for violations of the treaty, including its guarantees...more
After more than a year of sometimes contentious negotiations, the United States, Mexico, and Canada reached an agreement on September 30 to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)—renaming it the United...more
On Sunday, September 30, President Trump reached an agreement with the governments of Canada and Mexico to revise and modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Publishing the text of the new agreement just...more
US Courts Will Decide Whether to Enforce US$2 Billion Award Against Petróleos de Venezuela - In April 2018, an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) tribunal awarded US$2.04 billion in damages to two subsidiaries of U.S....more