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Annual Compliance Conference summary: Geopolitics, trade disruption and tariff wars – developing a global business strategy

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At the Annual Compliance conference recently held in London, Baker McKenzie hosted its session on “Geopolitics, Trade Disruption and Tariff Wars: Developing a Global Business Strategy”. The panel, chaired by Tristan Grimmer, featured speakers from our team across the globe, and explored the evolving landscape and its implications for international commerce. Rod Hunter, based in our Washington D.C. office, opened with an overview of the current U.S. Administration’s trade policy, emphasizing its transactional, zero-sum approach…

Annual Compliance Conference 2025 | 3 – 12 June 2025

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Our popular Annual Compliance Conference, which attracts senior in-house legal and compliance professionals every year from across the world, will be held virtually from 3 to 12 June 2025.The conference will provide you with valuable insights from our international trade, compliance and investigations, regulatory and antitrust lawyers. We will delve into critical topics shaping the future of global businesses such as sanctions, export controls, customs and tariffs, national security laws, antitrust, product regulation, ESG and…

Sanctions and export controls week: Geopolitical disruption and global sanctions and export controls developments

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For the second week of our Annual Compliance Conference, we discussed key trade compliance issues impacting our clients globally. Specifically, we discussed the trade policy response of the US, EU and UK to ever increasing geopolitical disruption, global strategies for handling sanctions regulators and enforcement, and key global sanctions and export controls developments. Trade policy response to geopolitical disruption – China and beyond – Tuesday 7 May Speakers: Tristan Grimmer (Partner, London), Sylwia Lis (Partner,…

Multijurisdictional: 2021 Virtual Global Trade Conference

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Baker McKenzie’s Global Compliance News Blog published “Multijurisdictional: 2021 Virtual Global Trade Conference,” which can be viewed here.

UK, US and Canadian Governments announce new measures over alleged Xinjiang, China human rights concerns

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Baker McKenzie’s Global Supply Chain Compliance Blog recently published a post entitled, “UK, US and Canadian Governments Announce New Measures Over Alleged Xinjiang, China Human Rights Concerns”.  The new blog post can be found here.  The post outlines recent measures introduced by the governments of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada in response to the alleged human rights violations taking place in Xinjian, China.  The new measures implemented by these governments include enhanced due diligence requirements…

UK – Update on UK sanctions and export controls post-Brexit

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On 31 December 2020, the UK’s Brexit transition period with the EU ended, and the UK became a third country with respect to the EU from a sanctions and export controls perspective. The UK now has its own autonomous sanctions and export control regimes – closely related to the EU’s regimes, but with important differences and complexities that clients need to be aware of. We have written an alert that summarises the key considerations for companies in…