Join Baker McKenzie, the Customs and International Trade Bar Association (CITBA), Association of Women in International Trade (WIIT), and GATT DC (LGBTQ+ Professionals in International Trade) for a fireside chat on the Congressional Trade Agenda. This event will take place on Tuesday, April 22 at 5:30 PM EDT at Baker McKenzie Washington, DC office, 815 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC 20006.The event will feature guest speaker Alexandra Whittaker, Chief Trade Counsel to the Chairman and Democratic Members of the Committee on Ways and Means and moderator William Reinsch, Senior Adviser, Economics Program…
Bipartisan legislation advancing in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives known as the âBIOSECURE Actâ (âthe Actâ) has the potential to significantly restrict the ability of biotechnology companies to collaborate with certain Chinese companies without losing the ability to contract with the U.S. government. Following the same model that was used to target Chinese telecommunications companies in the late 2010s, the Act would prohibit federal âexecutive agenciesâ from contracting with or extending…
On Saturday, April 20, 2024, after months of negotiations and many twists and turns, the US House of Representatives passed the 21st Century Peace through Strength Act (H.R. 8038). This bill, which is the fourth pillar of a broader foreign aid package to assist Israel, Ukraine, and the Indo-Pacific, contains numerous sanctions and trade-related national security measures. After each of the four foreign security bills were passed on Saturday, they were combined into one package…
On January 5, 2023, President Biden signed the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act into law. This law seeks to deter the theft of US intellectual property by non-US actors by threatening to impose economic sanctions on those engaged in trade secrets theft. This law adds to existing measures available under US law, such as criminal prosecution, civil lawsuits, and/or designation to a US restricted parties list such as the Entity List (maintained by the US…