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Archives for September 2014

September 30, 2014 by B. Donovan Picard

State Sovereignty, Intervention, and International Law

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” […]

Filed Under: International Disputes/Dimensions of Sovereignty, International Law Tagged With: International Law, intervention, sovereignty

September 24, 2014 by PKR

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 […]

Filed Under: Customs, International Trade, News Tagged With: antidumping, CBP, China, enforcement, furniture trade, garlic trade, import fraud, International Trade

September 18, 2014 by PKR

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 […]

Filed Under: Customs, International Trade Tagged With: antidumping, CBP, China, CIT, furniture trade, honey trade, import fraud, International Trade, mushrooms, seafood trade, surety, Thailand, Vietnam

September 18, 2014 by PKR

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 […]

Filed Under: Disputes & Agreements, Foreign Investment, International Disputes/Dimensions of Sovereignty Tagged With: Arbitration, Gold, ICSID

September 18, 2014 by PKR

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 […]

Filed Under: Disputes & Agreements, Foreign Investment, International Disputes/Dimensions of Sovereignty Tagged With: Central Asia, Water

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