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During a meeting held on Thursday in the Madrid Chamber of Commerce, the focus was placed on the scenario that currently exists under the Trump administration “especially due to the uncertainty generated when doing business with the United States,” explained Nadja Vietz.
As disagreements and malfeasance related to CBD and seed spill over to court rooms, the timing is in sync with hemp’s rollicking rise, describes Jesse Mondry, an attorney with Harris Sliwoski, and head of the firm’s Portland litigation team. “Hemp litigation has increased for the past couple of months and it will continue to rise, at least for a few more months, because this is the first crop under the 2018 farm bill,” Mondry explains.
Dan Harris of law firm Harris Sliwoski is an expert on legal issues related to doing business in China. Harris says situations like this happen all the time in the US. “There are a ton of foreign companies here that try to hide that they are foreign and look American, and it’s not a big deal,” Harris said. “It’s like big breweries acting like they make craft beers.”
“China has become a risky place,” Dan Harris, a lawyer at Harris Sliwoski, a firm that specializes in investment with China, said in an email. “If you are going to do business there you had better know what the laws are and you had better follow them, because China is not going to let anyone slide, especially not an American or a Canadian.”
The problem with intellectual property theft in China is not due to a lack of legislation, according to Fred Rocafort, a former U.S. diplomat who has worked on IP issues in Asia for more than a decade.
Dan Harris, a lawyer who represents U.S. importers, said he has received increasing requests for help dealing with Sinosure demands for payment on behalf of Chinese exporters.
“Before the trade war, I might go … four, five months without getting a Sinosure email, now I’m getting four or five a week,” said Harris, managing partner at international law firm Harris Sliwoski.
