Throughout the campaign, the President expressed his intention to make radical changes in U.S. trade policy. He variously promised to renegotiate or withdraw from NAFTA; withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, which the United States has not yet implemented; impose substantial new across-the board tariffs on imports from (at least)
At the AWA annual meeting on October 15th, members heard an excellent report from our attorneys at Covington & Burling regarding the remarkable progress AWA has made in seeking the streamlining of CITES import procedures at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service DOWNLOAD PDF
Covington & Burling's step-by-step guide on re-exporting and establishing a master file based on the FWS guidelines (C73MFGuidelines2013_10_16_13.pdf)included. DOWNLOAD PDF, DOWNLOAD PDF
OVERVIEW AWA’s Washington conference on CITES on June 19 was more than simply a highly successful meeting. It was one of a series of steps that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is taking to streamline its handling of CITES trade. At an April 8 meeting at FWS’s headquarters,
Memorandum from our attorneys at Covington & Burling regarding the exemption in the Dodd-Frank statute that exempts retailers from the "conflict minerals” reporting requirements where the retailer does not "contract to manufacture” a product, such as a watch, that contains gold, tin and other metals from the Congo and adjacent
The International Basel Conference of Watch Industry Associations on March 9 saw the presentation of several national reports on the health of the watch industry. These reports are summarized below and attached in detail. DOWNLOAD PDF