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The Office of the United States Trade Representative has opened its annual comment period for the 2027 National Trade Estimate Report, inviting U.S. businesses and trade associations to identify foreign barriers affecting American exports, investments, and electronic commerce. This year's request places special emphasis on duty evasion, circumvention, and transshipment practices that undermine fair trade. Submissions are due by October 29, 2026, offering stakeholders a strategic opportunity to influence U.S

A number of recent changes and proposed changes in the export control regulatory scheme have occurred recently. We have prepared an extensive summary of these recent developments, as year-end approaches.

Companies that advertise their products as "Made in the USA" should be aware of the Federal Trade Commission's ("FTC") stance regarding such advertisements.

We are approaching a time in which most adults will be disqualified from being elected to public office because of something they posted on their social media account.

President Trump has issued three executive orders under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, imposing 50% tariffs on certain Canadian imports affecting motor vehicles, alcoholic beverages, and dairy products. With a 30-day implementation window before the August 19, 2026 effective date, the United States and Canada have begun intensified negotiations that could modify or prevent these tariffs from taking effect.

The suit involves allegations of a group boycott by a table saw manufacturer, SawStop.

On June 24, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission issued "Authorized Generics: An Interim Report," which presents the first set of results from a study conducted to examine the short-term and long-term effects of authorized generics on pharmaceutical drug competition.

The FTC announcement that it had filed a complaint against Jerk, LLC looks at first glance like a run-of-the-mill FTC Section 5 enforcement action.

Earlier this month, the European antitrust watchdog announced that it signed a cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Commerce, China's merger review authority. In many of today's larger transactions, deals have a significant impact in both the European Union and in China.

The U.S. Trade Representative has launched sweeping Section 301 investigations targeting forced labor enforcement failures across 60 countries, Brazil's trade practices, and Vietnam's intellectual property protections...

California's newly enacted COMPETE Act fundamentally reshapes antitrust enforcement in the state by extending the Cartwright Act to single-firm conduct and introducing the undefined threshold of "substantial market power."

On June 30, 2026, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and 17 state attorneys general settled allegations that three egg producers unlawfully coordinated their bidding in spot markets...

Federal antitrust enforcement agencies continue to challenge transactions in the health industry that they view as anticompetitive.

On 14 November 2012, the General Court of the European Union (General Court) held that the European Commission (EC) must have reasonable grounds for suspecting an infringement of the EU competition rules in a particular sector before it can carry out an "inspection" (dawn raid).

Signs of aggressive new merger enforcement positions are evident in the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) challenge of the acquisition of a drug to treat a heart condition in premature babies.

Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) is a type of vertical price restriction where an upstream supplier requires an independent reseller to resell at a fixed or minimum resale price.

In a situation where the Department of Justice found no reason to challenge a merger on substantive antitrust grounds, the buyer was forced to pay a $1.8 million penalty because it had contractually given itself the right to approve basic, day-to-day business dealings of the seller during the merger waiting period.