International Trade Bulletin - Volume 1, Issue 10
Client Alert | 2 min read | 07.24.06
Inside this issue:
- ANTI-DUMPING IN THE SPOTLIGHT
- Comparison of The EU and U.S. Anti-Dumping Models: A Common Question Asked, Especially by Multilateral Companies, is “What are the Key Differences Between the U.S. and EU Systems for Imposing Anti-Dumping Duties?”
- EU Anti-Dumping: Spreading the Costs and Impact of Imposing EU Anti-Dumping Measures
- U.S. Anti-Dumping: More Trouble for the “Byrd Act” at Home
- THE WTO IN THE SPOTLIGHT
- WTO D-G Pascal Lamy Makes Plea to G-8 to Save The DDA: The Director-General of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, has warned leaders at the G-8 meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, that the DDA multilateral round will fail without their intervention
- Review System Adopted For Approving Regional Trade Agreements: The WTO's Negotiating Group on Rules has given formal approval of a new transparency mechanism for assessing all future regional trade agreements (RTAs) and their compatibility with the WTO rules
- Vietnam Set to Become 150th Member of The WTO: The chairperson of Vietnam's membership negotiations announces final agreement on accession to be put before the WTO General Council meeting in October
- RUSSIA: Russia Within Striking Distance of Joining the World Trade Organization as the U.S. and Russia Gets Close to Reaching a Deal on Russia's Accession
- SANCTIONS: The State Department has rescinded the 1979 designation of Libya as a state sponsor of terrorism in a notice published in the Federal Register on July 13, 2006
- MARKET ACCESS: U.S. and Cambodia Sign Trade and Investment Framework Agreement
- JAPAN: The U.S. and Japan Release Deregulation Report Highlighting New Opportunities for U.S. Industry
- AVIATION: Airlines Studying Proposed New U.S. Rule Mandating Pre-Departure Submission of Passenger Data
- BILATERAL TRADE: Signaling a growing frustration with the multilateral trade negotiation processes, currently moving at a snail's pace under the increasingly inappropriately named “Doha Development Round”, the EU begins putting in place the building blocks for a new wave of bilateral trade agreements
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Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.21.25
On November 7, 2025, in Thornton v. National Academy of Sciences, No. 25-cv-2155, 2025 WL 3123732 (D.D.C. Nov. 7, 2025), the District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a False Claims Act (FCA) retaliation complaint on the basis that the plaintiff’s allegations that he was fired after blowing the whistle on purported illegally discriminatory use of federal funding was not sufficient to support his FCA claim. This case appears to be one of the first filed, and subsequently dismissed, following Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s announcement of the creation of the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative on May 19, 2025, which “strongly encourages” private individuals to file lawsuits under the FCA relating to purportedly discriminatory and illegal use of federal funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in violation of Executive Order 14173, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity (Jan. 21, 2025). In this case, the court dismissed the FCA retaliation claim and rejected the argument that an organization could violate the FCA merely by “engaging in discriminatory conduct while conducting a federally funded study.” The analysis in Thornton could be a sign of how forthcoming arguments of retaliation based on reporting allegedly fraudulent DEI activity will be analyzed in the future.
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