International Law

Aug. 7, 2025 – The European Council ended a highly active semester on the economic sanctions front with the adoption of its 17th and 18th economic sanctions packages (Russia Sanctions Packages or Sanctions Packages) against Russia for its continued war of aggression against Ukraine, adopted on May 20 and July 18, respectively (I).

The Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce recently announced a $140 million resolution of criminal and civil charges against Cadence Design Systems for admitted export control violations relating to transfers of semiconductor design hardware and software tools to a restricted Chinese university.

On August 6, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (E.O.) imposing a 25 percent ad valorem tariff on all imports from India in response to India's continued imports of oil from the Russian Federation.

President Trump's shakeup of U.S. trade policy with its approach to tariffs is costing companies billions of dollars.

The rise of President Trumps' tariffs in 2025 has brought uncertainty to the profitability of product sales and has thrown a wrench in previously stable supply relationships.

On August 7, 2025, reciprocal tariffs ranging from 10-41 percent on imports from over 60 trading partners, originally announced by President Trump in an Executive Order issued on July 31, 2025, went into effect.

Much as was anticipated, the European Commission (the Commission) announced its long-awaited proposals on Jan. 25, 2012, on what are likely to be viewed as drastic changes to data protection law in Europe. The aim of the proposals is to make EU privacy laws fit for the 21st century, and they seek to both change the system and increase penalties for breach, with fines of up to 2% of a corporation's annual global turnover.

The European Union’s rules on government procurement have traditionally been admirably open and non-discriminatory, with none of the "Buy Local" preferences found elsewhere in the world.

On January 25, 2012, the European Commission unveiled its draft legislative proposals to revamp privacy rules in the European Union (EU).

The United States is currently party to 48 Bilateral Investment Treaties, including seven that have been signed but not yet ratified.

Global enforcement of anti-corruption laws is at an all-time high and unlikely to recede any time soon.

The CCL is a dual-use list subject to a lower level of control. The Canadian equivalent of the USML is the Defence Production Act.