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17.06.2024 Navigating the EU’s Provisional Countervailing Duties on EV Originating in China: Implications and Strategies

Navigating the EU’s Provisional Countervailing Duties on EV Originating in China: Implications and Strategies

Louie Chang

On 12 June 2024, the European Commission provisionally determined that electric vehicles (“EV”) originating in China benefit from unfair subsidizations, which pose a threat of foreseeable and imminent injury to EV industry of EU. The Commission has informed those EV producers in China that it would impose provisional countervailing duties of between 17.4% and 38.1% on imports of EV originating in China from 4 July 2024.

18.04.2024 Fortior Law's Geneva office is ranked in the Legal 500

Fortior Law's Geneva office is ranked in the Legal 500

Vitaliy Kozachenko

Fortior Law's Geneva office is ranked in the Legal 500: a firm to watch in international trade, shipping and finance.

18.04.2024 Fortior Law's Ukrainian office is ranked in the Legal 500

Fortior Law's Ukrainian office is ranked in the Legal 500

Vitaliy Kozachenko

Fortior Law's Ukrainian office is ranked in the Legal 500 for the third consecutive year

20.04.2023 Fortior's Kyiv Office Receives Recognition from The Legal 500

Fortior's Kyiv Office Receives Recognition from The Legal 500

Yana Zdioruk

The Kyiv office of Fortior Law has once again been acknowledged by The Legal 500, achieving a Tier 3 ranking in the International Trade practice.

10.08.2022 UNCITRAL approves Draft Convention on the Effects of Judicial Sale of Ships

UNCITRAL approves Draft Convention on the Effects of Judicial Sale of Ships

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has recently approved a draft convention on the effects of judicial sale of ships, marking the next step in a project which was first commenced in 2007 by the Comitè Maritime International (CMI). The draft convention seeks to achieve greater harmonisation within the international community of the legal effects of a judicial sale of a vessel.

22.06.2022 Types of Charterparties

Types of Charterparties

Danil Hristich

A charterparty is an agreement by which a shipowner leases an entire vessel or parts of its cargo spaces (e.g., part of a deck) to a charterer to carry cargo for payment. In this article, we discuss the main types of charterparties.

21.06.2022 Is it possible to recover legal costs in Gafta arbitrations?

Is it possible to recover legal costs in Gafta arbitrations?

Danil Hristich

A party should consider the recoverability of legal costs before commencing litigation or arbitration proceedings. While most arbitration institutions recognise that legal costs are generally recoverable from the losing party, this cannot be said about Gafta, where such costs are generally unrecoverable. However, this is not an absolute rule.

27.05.2022 Laytime and demurrage

Laytime and demurrage

Danil Hristich

Laytime is time allowed to a vessel for loading and discharge, whereas demurrage is a compensation for failure to load or discharge the vessel within laytime.

09.05.2022 Anti-dumping Investigation on Float Glass Initiated by the Ministry of Finance of Taiwan

Anti-dumping Investigation on Float Glass Initiated by the Ministry of Finance of Taiwan

Louie Chang

On May 6, 2022, the Customs Administration, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of China, published/issued an official notice to initiate an anti-dumping investigation on imports of float glass from Malaysia, Indonesia or Thailand. The subject goods of the investigation are float glass, in sheets, including both clear float glass and tinted float glass that can be used directly or further worked into processed glass.

25.04.2022 What should a FOB seller do when goods were unloaded without payment? (Part 2)

What should a FOB seller do when goods were unloaded without payment? (Part 2)

Danil Hristich

Here is the second part of the detective story "What should a FOB seller do when goods were unloaded without payment?", where we explain that a breach of contract may potentially serve the interests of a claimant in certain situations.

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