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The Directorate General of Foreign Trade has introduced an Open API facility for issuance of Certificates of Origin (CoOs) on the Trade Connect e-Platform to facilitate digitalisation and ease of doing business

The WTO Annual Report 2026 highlights the resilience of global trade amid geopolitical tensions, rising tariffs, and increasing trade policy uncertainty.

Family law property proceedings impose a duty of full and frank disclosure that extends far beyond what most clients expect, requiring complete transparency about all financial affairs from pre-action negotiations through to final judgment. Recent case law demonstrates that incomplete disclosure can result in adverse inferences, evidentiary sanctions, and property adjustments weighted heavily against the non-disclosing party, with consequences that far outweigh any perceived benefit of concealment.

Indonesia's Directorate General of Intellectual Property has announced a major acceleration in trade mark examination timelines, reducing the substantive examination period to just four months for applications filed from October 2026. While this procedural improvement enhances efficiency, it introduces important considerations around priority rights, conflict detection, and the growing need for proactive brand monitoring and enforcement strategies.

International secondment arrangements in Thailand can create unexpected employment risks when Thai courts look beyond contractual terms to examine the actual working relationship. Understanding when a Thai host organisation may be deemed an employer—and the resulting liability for severance, notice payments, and unfair dismissal compensation—is essential for multinational operations seeking to structure compliant expatriate assignments.

The Bombay High Court has allowed an application under Section 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and appointed a sole arbitrator, holding that the respondent had not shown with sufficient clarity that the Mumbai arbitration clause in the tender document was replaced by a later clause providing for arbitration at Kolkata.