There is probably no branch of international law which is so calculated to encourage the skeptic as that mass of contradictory precedents, dogmatic assertions, and vague principles which are collected under the common head of “intervention,” and perhaps there is no more potentially dangerous ground of intervention than that which is variously described as” self-preservation” […]
Archives for September 2014
Managing Director of New Jersey Wooden Bedroom Furniture Importer Pleads Guilty to Filing Fraudulent Documents in Multimillion Dollar Antidumping Duty Evasion Scheme
Earlier this month, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey announced (http://www.justice.gov/) that John Sandiford, the managing director of a New Jersey-based wooden bedroom furniture importer, had pled guilty to one count of importing merchandise from China by means of false statements. The bill of information filed in the criminal proceeding alleged that […]
CBP Authority to Address Risk to Revenue by Dumped Merchandise Under Attack
The problem of assessed antidumping duties that cannot be collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) has been an increasing problem undermining the effectiveness of relief against unfair trade in the United States. Through fiscal year 2012 – the last year for which data are available – CBP reported a total of nearly $1.8 […]
El Salvador and mineral firm in final stages of ICSID arbitration
The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) is currently in the final stages of arbitrating a dispute between the government of El Salvador and Pacific Rim LLC, a gold mining company recently acquired by Australian mining firm OceanaGold. The ICSID proceedings began in 2009, when Pacific Rim claimed El Salvador unlawfully denied […]
Modest goals are key to solving Central Asian water disputes
In a recent report, International Crisis Group urges Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan to focus on reaching modest, bilateral agreements on water sharing, rather than seeking an all-or-nothing regional accord. According to ICG, the water situation in these countries is too dire to wait for a comprehensive agreement that might ultimately prove impossible to reach. The […]