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Apple Inc. said Monday that it will keep making its “most powerful computer ever,” the Mac Pro, in the United States, a move the tech giant attributes to the Trump administration’s decision to give it relief from tariffs on several component parts made in China… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A coalition of companies on Thursday urged top U.S. lawmakers to ask the White House to delay plans for removing India and Turkey from a program that allows duty-free access to the U.S. market, arguing that the move would hurt American businesses and workers… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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ussian telecommunications group Mobile TeleSystems PJSC and a subsidiary agreed to pay $850 million related to U.S. authorities’ allegations that the company bribed an Uzbek official to win $2.4 billion worth of business, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Wednesday… This piece was co-authored with Rachel Graf. Read it in its entirety at Law360.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. and General Electric Co. on Monday dodged a $1 billion lawsuit by U.S. sailors over radiation injuries they allegedly suffered during their response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, after a California federal judge agreed the suit belonged in Japanese, not U.S., courts… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A bipartisan group of senators announced Tuesday they had introduced a bill aimed at ensuring Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp. lives up to conditions the Trump administration imposed last year when undoing the company’s blacklisting from U.S. markets… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 