Global Supply Chain Law Blog - Squire Patton Boggs

BACKGROUND The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) was enacted on December 23, 2021 and implemented on June 22, 2022. The UFLPA was designed to prevent the importation of goods …

The product liability law of the United Arab Emirates is still relatively new. It was first introduced in 2006 as Federal Law No. 24/2006. This law has been superseded by …

Please contact Kate Kim Tuma, Francesco Liberatore, Rodney E. Slater, or Daniel F. Roules with any questions. As the automotive and transportation industry continues to evolve, legal departments are navigating …

After 40 years, the European Union has finally replaced the “old” law on liability for defective products, Council Directive 85/374/EEC, by a “new” Product Liability Directive 2024/2853 (PLD). The PLD …

In a time defined by global disruptions, rising geopolitical tensions, and rapid technological change, manufacturers are increasingly challenged to reconsider where they manufacture. The traditional model of centralized, low-cost manufacturing, …

Please contact Hannah Laming, Francesco Liberatore and Francesca Puttock with any questions. Forced labour and modern slavery have been the subject of renewed focus across the UK and EU in …

On May 28, the U.S. Court of International Trade (“CIT”) blocked President Trump’s tariffs enacted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”).[1] The CIT held that the IEEPA does …

In this final episode of Supply Savvy, our podcast series with the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), partners Nicola Smith, Simon Jones and Victoria Callicott and director Ollie Ward-Jones cover …

This latest episode of our podcast series with the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), Supply Savvy, focuses on handling regulatory compliance issues, using a case study of peanut contamination in …

In the second episode of our Supply Savvy podcast series, partners Nicola Smith, Simon Jones and Victoria Callicott and director Ollie Ward-Jones explore common day-to-day issues in supply agreements, such …

In collaboration with the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), we have launched a new four-part podcast series, Supply Savvy, aiming to provide valuable insights into supply chain risk management in …

Please contact Andreas Fillmann with any questions. In April 2025, CDU, CSU, and SPD – the coalition parties almost certainly forming Germany’s next federal government – announced their intention to …

Please contact Max Rockall and Tim Flamank with any questions. Over the years, we’ve encountered numerous supply chain challenges, and one recurring issue is the incorrect application of force majeure …

This is a cross-post from The Trade Practitioner. Please contact D. Michael Kaye, Katie Pritchard, Ruaridh Guy, Joel Cockerell, Michael J. Wray with any questions. The Federal Register notice initiating …

Please contact Will Sparks, Gerard McElwee, and Oliver Geiss with any questions Territorial Supply Constraints (TSCs) refer to a range of practices used by brands and manufacturers that limit where …

On February 25, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Secretary of Commerce to investigate an alleged national security threat to the copper supply chain under Section 232 …

This is a Cross-Post from the Trade Practitioner Blog. On May 15, 2019, President Trump issued Executive Order 13873 – Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain …

On December 13, 2024, an Oakland County, Michigan trial court awarded AirBoss Flexible Products Co. nearly $3.5 million dollars on an unjust enrichment counterclaim asserted against MSSC, Inc., a tier …

Members of the Senate Commerce Committee have demonstrated an early bipartisan interest in continuing to promote U.S. supply chain resilience, highlighting an avenue for bipartisanship in the Trump Administration’s foreign …

I. Background The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act[1] (“UFLPA”) was enacted to address alleged forced labor and human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (“XUAR”) of China. The …

This is a Cross-Post from the Capital Thinking Blog. Please contact Clark Ervin with any questions. In the flurry of developments last week in the run-up to the inauguration, it …

This is a Cross-Post from the Capital Thinking Blog. Please contact Wolfgang Maschek, Thomas Delille, Marion Seranne, Ludmilla Kasulke, D. Michael Kaye, Christina Economides or Guillermo Giralda Fustes with any …

On 12 December 2024, the Italian antitrust authority has launched an investigation into suspected cartel activity among low-voltage copper cable manufactures. According to the authority, the manufacturers allegedly agreed to …

On 12 December 2024, the Italian antitrust authority has launched an investigation into suspected cartel activity among low-voltage copper cable manufactures. According to the authority, the manufacturers allegedly agreed to …

Please contact Patricia Doersch, Jennifer Tharp, Jennifer Satterfield, Michael Hawthorne, Kara-Marie Urban, or Ayah Ighneim with any questions. Automotive manufacturers, regulators and consumers face considerable uncertainty on how the incoming …

Please contact Tim Flamank with any questions. If you subscribe to the view that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to change life as we know it, then you will have …

This is a Cross-Post from Discourse Magazine. Please contact Everett Eissenstat with any questions. Both U.S. presidential candidates have taken firm stances against free trade. This bipartisan support marks a …

On September 24, 2024, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced that the Working Mechanism of the Unreliable Entities List (the “Working Mechanism”) had initiated an investigation of the PVH Group, …

On September 9, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives commenced “China Week,” during which the House passed 25 bills intended to limit the influence of the Chinese Communist Party in …

On May 15, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2023 by a vote of 390 to 19. The bill, authored by Rep. Lisa …

The cyberthreat landscape is evolving as threat actors develop new tactics to keep up with increasingly sophisticated corporate IT environments. In particular, threat actors are increasingly exploiting supply chain vulnerabilities …

Changes may be coming to the “de minimis” exception under Section 321 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, which allows goods valued less than $800 to enter the …

The Michigan Supreme Court issued an Opinion on July 11, 2023 in MSSC, Inc. v. Airboss Flexible Products Co., reversing a Court of Appeals opinion holding that blanket purchase orders …

On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (P.L. 117-58), which includes the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA) requiring infrastructure projects …

Companies are preparing to comply with the European Union’s new deforestation regulation (EUDR). On June 29, 2023, the European Parliament and Council formally adopted the EUDR. The EUDR goes into …

On May 11, 2023, Canada passed the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act(Bill S-211), which will take effect on January 1, 2024 (the “Act”). The …

November 27, 2023 marked the inaugural meeting of the White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience, a cabinet-level council focused on building and advancing the success of America’s critical supply …

As Yemen’s Houthi rebels have increased attacks against vessels sailing through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, global trade stakeholders have responded. It has been announced in the …

This is a legal insight prepared by colleagues Ludmilla L. Kasulke, D. Michael Kaye, Thomas Delille, Christina Economides, Amjad Wakil, María Vara Pitarch. Please contact the authors with any questions. …

This is an legal insight prepared by D. Michael Kaye, Sarah K. Rathke, Bridget McGovern, Michael J. Wray, Shea Leitch, John P. Flynn, Darien Flowers, and Michelle Story. Please contact …

SPB’s Alexis Chandler will be participating in a CLE webinar on April 2, 2024 from 1pm-2:30pm EDT titled “Supply Chain Disruptions: Drafting Contract Clauses to Mitigate Risks, Navigate a Breach, …