North America: International Law

The U.S. Department of State has proposed significant revisions to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and U.S. Munitions List (USML), aiming to focus controls on defense articles providing critical military advantages while reducing regulatory burdens on less sensitive items. The proposed changes include targeted decontrols, new exclusions, modifications to the "specially designed" analysis...

This comprehensive sanctions update examines the US delisting of Venezuelan politician Jorge Rodriguez amid diplomatic negotiations and energy sector expansion, while tracking global sanctions developments including new US restrictions on Iranian banks, UK measures targeting hostile Iranian activities, EU designations for sanctions circumvention, and China's proposed export controls on advanced technologies.

As tariff policies shift and trade tensions escalate, multinational companies face mounting pressure to reassess supply chain strategies built on assumptions that may no longer hold. This analysis examines five critical best practices for building resilience against tariff volatility, from diversifying supplier networks to integrating trade risk into routine governance frameworks.

The Court of Justice of the European Union faces a novel question in a pending referral from Denmark: whether supplementary protection certificates can extend to "loose combinations" of active ingredients that are formulated and administered separately, rather than as a single fixed-dose product. The case involves Genmab's application for SPC protection covering daratumumab in combination with three other cancer drugs, where the marketing authorization was granted through a Type II variation allowing combin

Arbitration is frequently the forum for cross-border dispute resolution involving British Virgin Island (BVI) companies, meaning urgent interim relief from the BVI courts in support of arbitration is sometimes required.

After the fall of the Empire in China in 1912, and before the takeover of China by the Communists in 1949, there was a period in which a number of warlords controlled different areas of China. The United States felt that there was a need for certainty in the dealings of its citizens abroad therefore, for more than two decades in the early twentieth century, the United States maintained an unusual federal court on foreign soil—one that exercised full judicial authority over American citizens living and working in China.

VP Marketing Bob Brewer, Braumiller Group sits down with the new project manager Bo Gilliam for a discussion on how project management works.

Hot Topics in International Trade. Bob Brewer from The Braumiller Group discusses AI and his recent article with Victoria Holmes of The Dispatch​

This comprehensive sanctions update examines the US delisting of Venezuelan politician Jorge Rodriguez amid diplomatic negotiations and energy sector expansion, while tracking global sanctions developments including new US restrictions on Iranian banks, UK measures targeting hostile Iranian activities, EU designations for sanctions circumvention, and China's proposed export controls on advanced technologies.