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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Tariffs, Sanctions, and Trade Compliance: Insights from AGG’s Global Trade & Sanctions Team

In today’s unpredictable trade environment, where tariff policies and enforcement priorities change overnight, businesses face mounting pressure to keep supply chains resilient and compliant. AGG’s Global Trade & Sanctions...more

The Volkov Law Group

Episode 384 — Third-Party Risks and Sanctions

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With the beginning of the aggressive trade enforcement era, companies need to focus on third-party risk and sanctions enforcement. The law, the practice, and the risks are important. As we embark on a new criminal enforcement...more

The Volkov Law Group

Episode 384 -- Third-Party Risks and Sanctions

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With the beginning of the aggressive trade enforcement era, companies need to focus on third-party risk and sanctions enforcement. The law, the practice, and the risks are important. As we embark on a new criminal enforcement...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - The Daunting Task of Export Compliance With Braumiller Law Group

The Daunting Task of Export Compliance and Sanctions with Senior Associate Attorney Megan Mohler and VP Marketing/NBD Bob Brewer Braumiller Law Group. Megan Mohler discusses the pitfalls that many exporters run into when...more

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Understanding Global Trade Conflicts and Their Impact on Supply Chains

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The ongoing U.S.-China trade war, recent hostilities in the Middle East, and the continuing war in Ukraine all represent matters implicating current national security concerns for companies operating within the United States...more

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Legal Risks in Outsourcing Agreements and Global Supply Chain Management

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Businesses evaluate different strategies to find the most effective way to minimize costs and bring their products to the market. One of those strategies is outsourcing, which involves arranging for a third party to perform...more

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What Every Multinational Company Should Know About … Mitigating Risks Posed by the New Trump Administration Focus on Drug Cartels...

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Print Share by Email Share Back to top The Trump Administration’s crackdown on cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) operating abroad and in the United States is a significant Department of Justice (DOJ)...more

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Pragmatic Regulatory Compliance for Global Risk

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Geopolitical risks to supply chains are top of mind across C-suites, but few say what it means. The term “geopolitical risk” has largely become a code word for import, export, and economic sanctions compliance. ...more

K2 Integrity

[Webinar] Mexico’s Evolving AML/CFT Environment: FATF Review and FTO Designations - May 14th, 12:30 pm ET

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U.S. and Mexican companies and financial institutions are seeking to navigate AML/CFT, sanctions, export control, and tariff and supply chain concerns as their governments’ make rapid changes around trade and tariffs and ramp...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] Trade & Sanctions Compliance for the Oil and Gas Industry - May 21st - 22nd, Houston, TX

Between tariffs, tightening export controls, evolving sanctions, and ramped up enforcement, the cost and complexity of compliance is rising for oil and gas supply chains. ACI’s Trade & Sanctions Compliance for the Oil and...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

What Every Multinational Company (Doing Business in Mexico) Should Know About … Mitigating Risks From ATA Scrutiny in a New...

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Mexican cartels dominate large swaths of the Mexico-United States border and the Bajío region (an area encompassing relevant parts of Queretaro, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí, Jalisco, and Michoacán), and they...more

Benesch

Pragmatic Regulatory Compliance Programs for Geopolitical Risk

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Geopolitical risks to supply chains are top of mind across C-Suites but few say what it means. The term “geopolitical risk” has largely become a codeword for import, export, and economic sanctions compliance. The fast pace of...more

The Volkov Law Group

Mitigating Risks of “Interacting” with Cartels and TCOs

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We have some new vernacular to bring into the compliance arena — companies need to address risks of interacting with cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs).  Companies need to understand the laws used to...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

Mexican Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations: A New Era of Risk for Global Businesses

On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” This directive instructs the...more

J.S. Held

Engaging With Chinese Companies: Managing ‘Proxy Sanctions’ Risk

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We are entering a year of acute political risk for international trade, with a high likelihood that the Trump administration will hit China with punitive tariffs and increased export controls. Against the backdrop of trade...more

Morgan Lewis

DOD’s Expanding List of Chinese Military Companies

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On January 2, 2025, the US Department of Defense added a number of entities to its list of “Chinese military companies" (CMC List). While being named to this list, by itself, does not prohibit US businesses from continuing to...more

The Volkov Law Group

Supply Chain and Sanctions Compliance (Part III of IV)

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While OFAC’s enforcement actions and guidance points to important steps exporters must take when relying on third-party distributors and other intermediaries, the “reason to know” and affirmative obligations to monitor resale...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Navigating Global Trade Regulations: Minimizing Supply Chain Risks When Importing from Abroad

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Regulators have sent numerous messages that companies who source from abroad need to subject their entire supply chain to extensive due diligence, based on state-of-the-art compliance measures to minimize supply chain risks....more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

Sanctions Compliance Measures to Mitigate Russia Trade Sanctions Evasion Tactics

The various and elusive tactics used by Russia to evade global sanctions and export controls have grown increasingly sophisticated over the last several months, putting the onus on multinational entities to become equally...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

What Every Multinational Company Should Know About . . . Supply Chain Integrity

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Both enforcement agencies and consumers increasingly are focused on manufacturers’ supply chains. Human rights enforcement frameworks increasingly have real teeth. Both the United States and the European Union either have, or...more

NAVEX

A Deeper Dive into Human Rights Impact Assessments – Part 1

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Human rights assessments are an increasingly closely watched area of due diligence for the supply chain of organizations across numerous industries. Even smaller operators are subject to the reality of today’s global supply...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] Canadian Forum on Global Economic Sanctions - September 22nd - 23rd, Toronto, ON, Canada

The Canadian Institute’s 7th Annual Canadian Forum on Global Economic Sanctions returns to Toronto in-person and via livestream on September 22-23! Join a Canadian and international faculty of government of officials,...more

Holland & Knight LLP

A Guide for Early-Stage Companies on Trade Compliance and Foreign Investment

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Are you looking to hire a star engineer who is a foreign national? Are you considering raising capital from a foreign venture capital firm or other foreign investor? Are you interested in sourcing components or creating...more

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Top Legal Issues Facing the Manufacturing Sector in 2022

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As the global economy faces the third year of the pandemic, manufacturers are no longer focused on figuring out when things will return to “normal.” Instead, they are applying lessons learned from the past few years to become...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] FCPA & Anti-Corruption for the Life Sciences Industry - July 21st - 22nd, Boston, MA

ACI is excited to welcome you back in-person to the 14th Advanced Forum on FCPA & Anti-Corruption for the Life Sciences Industry, taking place on July 21–22, 2022 in Boston! Legal and compliance professionals from...more

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