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R (Greyhound Board of Great Britain Ltd) v Welsh Ministers [2026] EWHC 670 (Admin) What are the practical implications of this case? The ruling reinforces the constitutional divide between the courts and the legislature. It explains that the scheme and framework of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (GWA 2006) embody that separation of powers, and that any judicial attempt to recognise and enforce a common law obligation on Welsh Ministers to consult prior to introducing legislation in the Senedd would trespass upon that boundary. This is not a departure from established principle; case law has already upheld comparable rules for lawmakers in Scotland and at Westminster. However, this is the first express confirmation of the position for Welsh lawmakers, and the first time this dimension of the GWA 2006 has been analysed in such depth. The court examined earlier
The solution arrived through the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), a quasi‑judicial body handling mass claims, created under UN Security Council Resolution 687. By addressing environmental harm—most notably via its ‘F4’ claim class—the UNCC set a seminal benchmark shaping how international law and contemporary arbitral panels allocate financial responsibility for wartime ecological devastation. With present-day wars in areas such as Eastern Europe and the Middle East bringing dam breaches, strikes on chemical facilities, and the burning of farmland, the UNCC’s legacy endures as an essential reference point for states, global investors, and companies engaged in post‑conflict arbitration. The F4 claims: Quantifying the unquantifiable Prior to the 1990s, mechanisms in international law for war reparations overwhelmingly favoured property loss, foregone earnings, and bodily injury. The natural world was commonly treated as a mute, non-compensable victim of armed hostilities...
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Following a 25-year negotiating marathon, the EU and Mercosur said on 6 December 2024 they had reached a trade accord, poised to forge one of the globe’s biggest markets, spanning more than 700 million people. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described the pact as ‘not merely an economic opening, but a political imperative’, highlighting projected yearly savings of €4bn ($4.2bn) in export tariffs for EU firms selling into Mercosur members Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. At a press briefing in Montevideo, Uruguay, she hailed ‘a genuinely historic milestone’, saying the EU and Mercosur are establishing one of the most significant trade and investment partnerships the world has ever known......
In this issue: Customs Lex Talk®International Trade: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Customs ( Miscellaneous Amendments) ( No 3) Regulations 2024 SI 2024/1265 These Regulations revise two UK secondary legislative instruments concerning customs. The updates alter customs provisions so HMRC may reimburse businesses for customs duties where, following a reassessment of a duty rate previously levied, a refund is warranted. They are made under powers in the Taxation ( Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 and relate to assimilated law. See: LNB News 03/12/2024 18......
In this issue: WTO Anti-dumping Customs Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content WTO WTO releases report on AI's impact on global trade landscape The World Trade Organisation ( WTO) has issued a report assessing how artificial intelligence ( AI) is affecting global commerce. The publication, titled ' Trading with Intelligence: How AI Shapes and is Shaped by International Trade', considers AI’s capacity to lower trading costs, reshape trade in services, and recalibrate comparative advantage. The WTO flags the danger of fractured regulation and an expanding AI divide, stressing the importance of co-ordinated oversight. It further highlights the WTO’s part in promoting policy alignment and in tackling trade-related dimensions of AI governance within a multilateral setting. See: LNB News 21/11/2024 62. WTO DSB addresses new panel requests and ongoing Appellate Body impasse The WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body ( DSB)...
In this issue: Trade in goods WTO Sanctions and export control Customs Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trade in goods CIArb explores CISG application to reverse auctions in procurement The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators ( CIArb) has issued an analysis examining how the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods ( CISG) may apply to reverse auctions in public procurement. It draws attention to the continuing discussion over whether such procedures are captured by the Article 2(b) CISG exclusion for sales by auction. CIArb also records that the CISG Advisory Council has appointed a rapporteur to prepare a forthcoming Opinion on this question. The piece reviews recent jurisprudence and comparative practice, referencing a Swiss Federal Supreme Court ruling that applied the CISG to a government contract, alongside Brazilian examples where...
In this issue: Subsidies and countervailing measures Customs Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Subsidies and countervailing measures TRA seeks to keep countervailing action on Argentinian biodiesel imports The Trade Remedies Authority ( TRA) has provisionally set plans to continue countervailing action on biodiesel from Argentina. In its Statement of Essential Facts, the TRA advises keeping the duty band at 25%–33.4% through February 2029......
In this issue: Trade in goods Free trade agreements Customs Lex Talk®International Trade: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trade in goods ICC unveils Wave 3 of the Principles for Sustainable Trade. The International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC) has rolled out the third iteration of the Principles for Sustainable Trade, offering broader reach and greater flexibility for assessing trade sustainability across all sectors. Wave three provides industry-specific guidance on use of proceeds, while underlining the need to align trade transactions with both socioeconomic and environmental sustainability objectives. See: LNB News 06/11/2024 46. Df T consults on incorporating international vehicle regulations to GB type approval. The Department for Transport ( Df T) has opened a consultation to refresh the GB type approval system for road vehicles so it corresponds with the latest safety requirements from the EU and the United Nations Economic Commission for...
In this issue: Key developments and materials WTO Trade in goods Customs Daily and weekly news alerts Key developments and materials Autumn Budget 2024—key International Trade announcements In the Autumn Budget 2024 on 30 October 2024, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, set out measures to reinforce the international trade landscape. Plans include funding to amplify the UK’s trade and investment across the globe, engagement to advance Free Trade Agreements, and steps to deliver the UK’s Trade Strategy, among a range of further announcements and updates. Reeves observed that a range of trends will reshape both UK and global trade, stressing that adjusting to these shifts will underpin sustainable growth. See: LNB News 30/10/2024 33. WTO WTO reviews recent safeguard notifications The World Trade Organisation ( WTO) has examined safeguard notifications from 11 members submitted since the WTO...
Reynders has said that online platforms face oversight under the EU’s digital framework and the customs union reforms, to make sure goods coming into the bloc comply with its safety requirements. He added that the EU Digital Services Act, Regulation ( EU) 2023/988 (the EU General Product Safety Regulations), and the customs union overhaul are vital to shield the EU from unfair competition by online marketplaces. ‘ Safeguarding consumers and ensuring marketplace compliance will continue as a core enforcement focus,’ Reynders stated on 21 October 2024 during a formal debate in the European Parliament’s plenary session. ‘ We take this duty seriously and will not hesitate to act decisively.’ The outgoing Commissioner explicitly named Chinese platforms Temu, Shein and Alibaba, as well as US-based Amazon, as among the companies that will need to......
In this issue: Trade in goods Sanctions and export control Free trade agreements Anti-dumping Customs Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content EU’s digital rulebook and customs union revamp will combat unfair e-commerce practices, Reynders says Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said the European Commission intends to rely on the EU’s digital rulebook, Regulation ( EU) 2023/988 (the EU General Product Safety Regulation), together with the forthcoming customs unions overhaul, to guarantee that goods entering the bloc comply with its safety rules. He informed lawmakers that the Commission can arrange product safety checks and co-ordinated sampling of goods, ensuring e-commerce marketplaces such as Temu or Shein follow EU requirements. See News Analysis: EU’s digital rulebook and customs union revamp will combat unfair e-commerce practices, Reynders says......
In this issue: Subsidies and countervailing measures Free trade agreements WTO Anti-dumping Customs Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Subsidies and countervailing measures The European Commission is prepared to keep engaging with Chinese electric vehicle ( EV) manufacturers on company-specific undertakings as alternatives to duties, running in tandem with discussions with the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery, according to MLex. Under EU trade defence rules, the Commission enjoys broad latitude to decide which undertaking proposals from firms under a countervailing inquiry it will accept. China’s Commerce Ministry last week cautioned the EU against concluding separate arrangements, outside the state-led track, with particular Chinese producers linked to EU EV makers. See News Analysis: EU ready to continue talks with individual Chinese EV makers on...
An MLex source stated that, in addition to the CCCME proposal, several further offers on price undertakings have been tabled, and the Commission remains prepared to pursue discussions on them. Since mid- September 2024, the EU has conducted intense talks with the CCCME, which represents the 12 largest Chinese EV makers, including Geely, BYD and SAIC, on an undertaking deal that would permit them, under certain strict conditions, to avoid paying the planned EU countervailing duties. Those Chinese government-controlled negotiations fell apart on 11 October 2024, as the two sides were unable to overcome wide differences over the key......
In this issue: Anti-dumping Trade in goods Trade in services Subsidies and countervailing measures Customs Daily/weekly news alerts New/updated content Anti-dumping EU brandy exports to face China’s provisional dumping duties from Friday MLex: EU brandy shipments will face provisional anti-dumping duties at China’s borders from 11 October 2024, China’s commerce ministry said on 8 October 2024. Levies ranging from 30.6% to 39% were flagged in August 2024, yet China chose not to activate them while the EU’s countervailing investigation into Chinese electric vehicles was still under way. See News Analysis: EU brandy exports to face China’s provisional dumping duties from Friday. TRA accepts recommendation to retain protections on ceramic tiles The Trade Remedies Authority ( TRA) has proposed keeping the anti-dumping measure on ceramic tiles from China, except for larger tiles not made in the UK. The measure will continue for five more years for tiles with a surface area of 3,600cm² or less, while it will be...
Following a 4 October 2024 vote by EU member states across the bloc, the European Commission is permitted to potentially levy steep EV tariffs of up to 35.3% in total by the end of October 2024. In January 2024, China launched an anti-dumping probe into imports of EU brandy — including cognac predominantly produced in France and grappa made in Italy — to dissuade the EU from proceeding with the EV measures. By August 2024, it concluded the targeted imports had been dumped onto the Chinese market. Yet, within the same announcement the ministry......
In this issue: Anti-dumping Safeguards Trade in goods WTO Customs Lex Talk®International Trade: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Anti-dumping New Category 1 steel import quotas come into effect The Trade Remedies Authority ( TRA) has announced that the UK government has endorsed its advice to revise the tariff rate quota on Category 1 steel imports, taking effect on 1 October 2024. The refreshed steel safeguard will be divided into two bands— Category 1A, available to those importing for commercial application, and Category 1B for downstream processing. The Category 1A allowance will stay at just over 1 million tonnes per year, while Category 1B will be set 132% higher than Category 1A, equating to around 2.3 million tonnes annually. Category 1B allocations will be distributed on a global basis, with a 40%...
In this issue: Anti-dumping Trade in services WTO Customs Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Anti-dumping EU to register imports of all products under trade defence investigations The European Commission will now record imports of every product subject to anti-dumping or anti-subsidy probes, including existing cases where provisional findings have not yet been issued. This procedural shift seeks to strengthen the application of trade defence tools and address the consequences of distorted competition, reinforcing responses to unfair practices effectively......
In this issue: Subsidies and countervailing measures Trade in services Trade in goods WTO Customs Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Subsidies and countervailing measures Revised Chinese EV proposal sets tighter price limits and volume caps; EU says it cannot be reviewed MLex reports that a new Chinese electric‑vehicle proposal—aimed at limiting the application of the planned EU countervailing duties—was submitted too late and, as a result, cannot be considered, the European Commission said on 17 September 2024. The paper seen by MLex set out minimum import prices across various EV models and stricter annual import caps for Chinese EV makers signing up to the arrangement. See News Analysis: New Chinese EV offer sets stricter price ceilings and volume caps, EU says it cannot be reviewed. Trade in services UK and Thailand sign...
Under the revised proposal, Chinese battery electric cars sold in the initial three years, provided they fall within a yearly ceiling of 206,213 units and are priced above the Minimum Import Prices set for various EV types, would avoid the bloc’s countervailing levies. For the fourth and fifth years, the annual duty-free allowance tied to MIPs would return to a non-injurious threshold of 412,425 units, per the offer seen by MLex. Inside this allocation, BEV consignments with a Net Sales Price exceeding the MIP would not face countervailing duty, it adds. In either scenario, once the yearly quota is used up, no matter the year, exports of the product in question would become liable for the applicable countervailing duty. All imports from Chinese EV manufacturers not taking part in the arrangement......
In this issue: Anti-dumping Trade in goods WTO Lex Talk® International Trade: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Anti-dumping EU measures on imports of continuous filament glass‑fibre goods from China are set to be reassessed, with both anti‑dumping and countervailing duties potentially rising, according to MLex. MLex has learnt that higher rates are on the table. These glass‑fibre products, used across automotive, electronics and construction industries, are the focus of the review. See News Analysis: EU dumping and countervailing duties on Chinese glass‑fibre filaments to face review. Trade in goods The UK is expected to enter the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans‑ Pacific Partnership ( CPTPP) by 15 December 2024, after the Department for Business and Trade confirmed the final green light for accession. Once the UK joins, more than 99% of current UK goods shipped to CPTPP...
The European Commission intends to reassess the measures, as their present level may no longer be adequate to effectively counter Chinese dumping and distortive subsidies. The EU has kept punitive steps in force on the product, used to reinforce thermoplastic and thermoset resins in the composites industry, since 2011, when dumping duties of up to 13.8% were initially introduced......
In this issue: Subsidies and countervailing measures Anti-dumping Customs Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Subsidies and countervailing measures Commission releases draft findings of anti-subsidy probe into Chinese BEV imports The European Commission has unveiled draft final conclusions from its anti-subsidy inquiry into Chinese battery electric vehicle ( BEV) imports, proposing countervailing duties ranging from 17% to 36.3% for companies such as BYD, Geely and SAIC, and setting a distinct 9% duty for Tesla. It also advises that authorities should not retrospectively collect any countervailing duties......
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