The Supreme Court recently agreed to combine the briefing schedule of this case with a similar case that successfully challenged the constitutionality of the administrative process of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
While US importers were eagerly anticipating the issuance of UFLPA technical guidance from CBP last week, CBP did post a new guidance document summarizing the UFLPA and forced labor Withhold Release Orders WRO enforcement mechanisms.
Bedoya founded the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a Visiting Professor of Law. His academic work centered on privacy law, particularly the effects of facial recognition technology on race and gender.
On this episode of Bracewell Sidebar, hosts Matthew Nielsen and Phil Bezanson are joined by Matt Bell, a senior managing director and the global lead of FTI Consulting's export controls, sanctions and trade practice, to discuss US export controls and sanctions.
Thursday, January 14, 2021
On December 30, 2020, after seven long years of negotiations, China and the EU concluded in principle the negotiations for a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI). The frayed political and trade relations with the US, as well as Brexit, convinced the EU members to put aside objections related to human rights violations and close the deal with China, now their major trade partner. The Chinese, hard pressed to offset the 2020 diplomatic set-backs, including the mishandling of the initial Covid-19 crisis, the Xingjian labor camps issue, and the Hong Kong crisis, and in need of alternatives to their strained relations with the US, were willing to make concessions including some key provisions concerning China’s forced technology transfer.