Recently by Gilbert B. Kaplan
International Trade
The Senate Passes Legislation To Apply The Trade Laws To Chinese Currency Practices
The Senate, with strong bipartisan support, recently passed legislation to address currency manipulation by countries that significantly undervalue their currency. The bill, known as the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2011 (S. 1619), is designed to address currency manipulation...
Read MoreThe Future Of Trade With China:A Two-Way Street?
Editor: Would each of you tell our readers about your backgrounds in international trade, and more specifically in dealing with China, before you joined King & Spalding and your current portfolio with the firm. Kaplan: I was in charge of import administration at the U.S. Department of...
Read MoreThe First Affirmative Countervailing Duty Case Against China
On March 30, 2007, in a groundbreaking decision, the United States Department of Commerce for the first time applied the countervailing duty law - or anti-subsidies law - to imports from the People's Republic of China. This decision, though preliminary, appears to mark a fundamental shift in the...
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