Updated
Feb 10, 2021
How A Trade Dispute Between 2 Korean Firms Could Jam Bidenâs Electric Car Plans
Trade lawyers call it âthe nuclear option.â South Koreaâs prime minister called it âembarrassing.â The question now is whether Biden will call it unacceptable.
By Alexander C. Kaufman
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
President Joe Biden will have the final say after the U.S. International Trade Commission makes its ruling on Wednesday. It could be the first big test of how serious he is about electric vehicles.
President Joe Biden has vowed to convert the federal governmentâs entire fleet of motor vehicles â some 645,047 at last count â to electric. That includes thousands of Ford F-150 pickups, the countryâs perennial best-selling automobile since 1981 and a popular ride for everyone from federal police to national park rangers.
The argument from Nadia Bourely, the Canadian Embassy s minister-counsellor for economic and trade policy, boiled down to a simple premise: we re not the problem. We find it very difficult to see how blueberry imports, particularly imports from Canada, could have caused any injury to the U.S. blueberry industry, Bourely told an online hearing.
Between 2015 and 2019, she said, U.S. imports from Canada grew by only 15 per cent, while total imports grew nearly 56 per cent.
If anything, U.S. growers have benefited from accessing the Canadian market, said Bourely, who urged commissioners to consider each country s impact in isolation, rather than lumping them together.
Intellectual property case could impact Lordstown electric vehicle project: Kent Kaiser
Updated Feb 07, 2021;
Posted Feb 07, 2021
In this Dec. 5, 2019 file photo in Michigan, Ohio Lt. Gov Jon Husted is flanked by General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Mary Barra and LG Chem Vice Chairman and CEO Hak Cheol Shin as GM and LG Chem announced a joint venture to mass-produce battery cells in Ohio near the old Lordstown assembly plant for GM battery-electric vehicles. Construction on the Ultium Cells LLC plant began last summer and hiring has begun. In a guest column today, Kent Kaiser of the Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity writes that Ohio officials should be concerned about an intellectual-property dispute between LG and another South Korean firm, SK Innovation, that is ripe for decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission. LG accuses SK Innovation, which is building a competing battery plant in Georgia. of stealing its trade secrets and technology; an interim ITC ruling w
Like many in America, farmers have gone through a difficult year in the face of a pandemic and an economic downturn. But across Michigan and other agricultural regions, we are resilient and hard-working contributors to our economy and our local communities.I have been farming blueberries in southwest Michigan for the past 16 years. Michigan has been growing blueberries for over 70 years and the fruit are a very important crop for Michigan’s economy. Test plantings began in the early 1920s.
Lack of trials is
tribulation, say district court judges
In a series of interviews with Managing IP, four of the
busiest district court judges in the US said their top priority this year was
to restart jury trials as soon as possible – but noted that the process would
be tricky, and that they needed professionalism and understanding from
attorneys to make it work.
“My first, second, third and fourth priorities this year are
the same – getting back to trials. There really is no number two,” says Judge
Alan Albright of the District Court for the Western District of Texas, the US’s