by Andrea | May 26, 2021 | Business, Trade and Society, International Trade, international trade rules, Trade and Development, Trade and Small Business, World Trade Month, World Trade Organization
As we close out the month of May – widely celebrated across the United States as “World Trade Month” – this seems an appropriate time to highlight some of the resources that are available to support companies to do business internationally. Knowing Your...
by Andrea | Apr 4, 2021 | CSME, Recent Trends in Trade, tools for importers, Trade and Development
The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program about which I wrote in a prior post is currently expired (as of March 2021). This won’t be a first as the program has expired and been renewed in the past. In fact, GSP periodically expires and must be renewed by...
by Andrea | Mar 24, 2021 | Business, Trade and Society, COVID-19, International Trade, Trade and Development, US-China Trade Relations, World Trade Organization
The Trade Policy Agenda of the Biden Administration, released in March (2021), very clearly reflects U.S. domestic concerns. Unlike the Trump Administration, however, which kept narrowly defined U.S. interests at the heart of its policy, the Biden Administration trade...
by Andrea | Mar 8, 2021 | Business, Trade and Society, International Trade, World Trade Organization
As we celebrate the achievements of women this month (March) we also welcome Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the new Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). By her very appointment, “Dr. Ngozi”, as she is called, has overcome a six-month period when the...
by Andrea | Feb 1, 2021 | Business, Trade and Society, International Trade, international trade rules, US-Caribbean trade
As of December 31, 2020, importers who rely on the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program have lost those benefits. GSP has expired – again! The GSP is the largest US trade preference program, allowing over 5000 products from over 100 developing countries to...
by Andrea | Jan 11, 2021 | Brexit, International Trade, markets in Africa, Recent Trends in Trade
January 1, 2021, the global landscape changed in two historic and divergent ways. Britain completely left the European Union in search of greater control over its own borders, while the countries of Africa took a key step towards harmonization and the vision of an...
by Andrea | Dec 14, 2020 | COVID, International Trade, World Trade Organization
The Vaccine The 2020 global pandemic highlighted the cracks in the supply chains that keep us fed, clothed, in health, and entertained. In 2021, our hopes for getting back to a post-pandemic life depend on the effective global distribution of the newly manufactured...
by Andrea | Nov 23, 2020 | Business, Trade and Society, International Trade, US-China Trade Relations, World Trade Organization
The Trump trade policy has been characterized by a protectionist America-first agenda. Featuring unilateralism and isolationism, its hallmarks have included a repudiation of multilateral trade agreements and negotiations, a unilateral trade war with China, and a...
by Andrea | Nov 3, 2020 | International Trade, Trump on Trade, US-China Trade Relations
As we said in one of our posts, trade sanctions are still operating during the pandemic. In fact, Chinese tech companies have emerged as a new focus of the US sanctions regime. Among the sanctioned companies is ByteDance Ltd., the owner of TikTok, the popular...
by Andrea | Oct 20, 2020 | Business, Trade and Society, International Trade, Trade and Development
The following is an excerpt that was taken from the front page of the October 19th publication of the Latin America Advisor. “The Caribbean is better positioned than any other region in the world to take advantage of the “blue economy,” Valerie Hickey, a...
by Andrea | Sep 25, 2020 | Tributes
I have a personal memory, which I shall always treasure, of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. No, I did not know her personally. Nor did we ever “meet” in the usual sense of the word. In 2004, I applied to and was admitted into the US Supreme Court Bar. One slightly overcast April...
by Andrea | Sep 14, 2020 | Business, Trade and Society, International Trade, international trade rules, Trump on Trade, US-Caribbean trade
The Caribbean Basin Trade Preferences Act (CBTPA) and the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) programs which give products from developing countries duty-free and other preferential access to the US market expire this year. It is time to renew US trade...
by Andrea | Aug 29, 2020 | Trade and Development, Uncategorized, World Trade Organization
In 2016, I worked with a Kenyan exporter and her buyer seeking to address the technical barriers to importing French beans from Kenya into the United States. A major vegetable export crop in Kenya, French beans are grown mostly by small-scale farmers, providing them...
by Andrea | Aug 11, 2020 | Featured, Uncategorized
The following excerpt was contributed by International Trade Attorney and Consultant, Andrea Ewart in the August 5th publication of Latin America Advisor. Andrea Ewart, CEO of DevelopTradeLaw: “The decisive rejection of Bouterse’s government by the Surinamese...
by Andrea | Jul 20, 2020 | Business, Trade and Society, tools for exporters, tools for importers
On June 5, 2020, the US Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) issued proposed rules to modernize the regulation of US customs brokers. CBP invites comments through the submission of written data, views, or arguments on all aspects of the proposed rule on or...
