North America: International Law

This comprehensive timeline tracks the escalating trade tensions between the United States and Canada from January 2025 through July 2026, documenting tariff implementations, retaliatory measures...

The Strait of Hormuz disruption is driving up fuel, freight, and feedstock costs across ocean, air, and trucking sectors, while trade policy moves in conflicting directions with court challenges to tariffs alongside new sector-specific duties. Shippers face rising pricing that outpaces demand, harder-to-forecast landed costs, and compressed decision windows for sourcing strategies in an environment of structural overcapacity.

Legal risk for contractors and cross-border businesses is not driven solely by statute or regulation — it is shaped by geopolitics, Administration and congressional priorities, and enforcement discretion.

Bob Brewer sits down with Associate Attorney, Eiyack Cacho -Ayala, to discuss AI and how university students should not fear it, but instead embrace it.

Bob Brewer and Adrienne Braumiller, BLG Managing Partner, discuss the Section 122 tariffs being struck down by the Court of International Trade

Bob Brewer, Braumiller Law Group is joined by Victoria Holmes of the Dispatch to cover an update on the Strait of Hormuz and trade volatility.

The global sulfuric acid market is in the middle of a supply shock not seen since 2008. Two independent events—the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping since late February 2026 and China’s reported export prohibition on sulfuric acid effective May 1, 2026...

La Cour supérieure de justice de l'Ontario réaffirme le critère strict applicable aux contestations fondées sur l'ordre public dans le cadre de l'exécution de sentences arbitrales étrangères. L'affaire Feicheng Mining Group v. Liu examine si une sentence arbitrale chinoise peut être contestée au motif qu'elle aurait été obtenue sous contrainte, et clarifie la distinction entre les contestations portant sur les lois et celles portant sur les faits.

Civil litigation in the United States presents unique challenges for non-U.S. entities, from expansive pretrial discovery to parallel court systems and public proceedings.