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Trade

September 17, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker and Bradley Dress

North America

US tariff powers in Russia bill could lead back to global trade chaos

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

September 17, 2026 | Wesley Brown

North America

Paramount foreign ownership petition granted by US FCC

Data Privacy and Security, Financial Crime, Intellectual Property

September 17, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Africa, North America

Huawei's decision-making centralized in China, former employees say at US trial

Antitrust View More

Brazil CADE expects antitrust case backlog to fall to 30 by end of 2026

September 18, 2026 | Henrique Santiago

Latin America

Felipe Leitão Valadares Roquete, the acting superintendent of Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense, said the watchdog’s investigative arm plans to conclude a significant number of investigation... (more story)

US DOJ's Dina Kallay departs Antitrust Division

September 18, 2026 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Dina Kallay, a deputy assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, has left her role, MLex has learned.

MJ’s Market pushes for judgment in US antitrust case over Massachusetts cannabis market

September 18, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: MJ’s Market filed a reply in support of its motion for a judgment in a US antitrust case accusing Sammartino Investments and Jushi Holdings of conspiring to keep it from competing in the cannabis... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

California governor pushes up creation of 'kill switch' for rogue AI systems

September 18, 2026 | Mike Swift

North America

Blasting inaction on AI safety by Washington, DC, California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday ordered state agencies to work with experts to develop a framework for a frontier-AI “kill switch” and accelerate in... (more story)

Virginia governor releases AI data center 'accountability framework'

September 18, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger on Friday announced a new framework for data center accountability standards with an accompanying executive order, agency directives and policy recommendation... (more story)

California governor takes initial step toward 'kill switch' for frontier AI models

September 18, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order requiring state agencies to report back my mid-November about how the state, which is home to many of the largest AI agencies, could req... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Patrick Industries, LCI seek to persuade US that products don't overlap

September 18, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski

North America

Patrick Industries and LCI Industries — two key suppliers of components for powerboats, manufactured homes and recreational vehicles — regard their merger as combining products that are mostly complementary an... (more story)

US STB denies bids for summary denial of Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern application

September 18, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Surface Transportation Board denied motions seeking summary denial of the revised merger application filed by Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, the board announced. BNSF Railway, CSX Tra... (more story)

US NAAG taskforce chair says break with feds not because state AGs haven't tried

September 18, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger

North America

State and federal antitrust enforcement agencies have made news this year after diverging on their stances in some big antitrust cases. It's not because the states haven't made a concerted effort to coordinate... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Zuckerberg was aware of user confusion over privacy, New Mexico jury hears

September 18, 2026 | Yuan Xu

North America

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, back in 2009, was aware of confusion among Facebook users about their privacy settings and didn't want users to change them as he sought to make more users share their conte... (more story)

US FTC’s commission structure hasn’t produced better results than DOJ, Ferguson says

September 18, 2026 | Chris May and Khushita Vasant

North America

The US Federal Trade Commission’s historically bipartisan, consensus-driven structure has not produced superior law enforcement outcomes compared to the agency’s more hierarchical federal counterpart, the Depa... (more story)

Video-games sector warns against ‘sweeping’ age assurance in proposed EU Kids Act

September 18, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

Online-game providers would face EU safety-by-design and guardian-control duties under the proposed Kids Act, but the sector is warning against "sweeping" age assurance. The text also raises concerns about vir... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Via LA targets one-stop shop for AI data center patent licenses, president says

September 18, 2026 | Steve Scherer

Asia, Europe, North America

Via LA has launched its DRAM data center patent pool with three of the field’s top 15 largest patent holders and is negotiating with most of the rest, President Kevin Mack told MLex. A second group of new memb... (more story)

OpenAI’s failed UK trademark challenge deepens doubts over ‘GPT’ protectability

September 18, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

Europe

The UK Intellectual Property Office recently invalidated UK trademark rights in “GPT” and “ChatGPT” while rejecting OpenAI’s bid to block ChainGPT LLC from registering its name there. The decision gives UK app... (more story)

Asahi Kasei plans civil action over ex-employee's alleged China trade secret leak

September 18, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

Japan’s Asahi Kasei, one of the country’s leading chemicals groups, said it will file civil claims against a Chinese chemicals company and a former employee arrested on suspicion of trade secret violations und... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Former Vitol trader sentenced in US bribery case

September 18, 2026

Latin America, North America

MLex Summary: Javier Aguilar, a former trader for Vitol, was sentenced to 48 months in prison for his role in two interrelated schemes to bribe Ecuadorian and Mexican government officials.

Smartmatic US bribery trial delayed to February 2028

September 18, 2026

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: US Judge Kathleen M. Williams adjourned the corruption trial of Smartmatic, its co-founder and a former executive to February 2028. 

US repatriates $2.5 million to The Gambia from forfeiture of Maryland mansion

September 18, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Justice Department is returning about $2.5 million in corruption proceeds to The Gambia to be used to compensate victims of the Jammeh regime, according to a release. The funds stem from t... (more story)

Financial Services View More

SVB's 2023 failure traceable to US Fed's 'culture of risk aversion,' Bowman says

September 18, 2026 | Neil Roland

Europe, North America

An outside review of the US Federal Reserve's oversight of the 2023 failure of Silicon Valley Bank found that Fed staffers "knew, or should have known" that the bank was exposed a year before its collapse, but... (more story)

US Fed to consider changes to 2027 stress-testing models, Bowman says

September 18, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

The US Federal Reserve plans to consider changes to the 2027 stress-testing models for non-interest bank income, Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said Friday. This income encompasses fee and trading ... (more story)

EU financial entities see updated framework for third-party risk management

September 18, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: EU financial entities are facing updated European Banking Authority guidelines for managing risks from external service providers. The rules focus on arrangements supporting critical or important... (more story)

Trade View More

Steel pipe dumping order petition had enough industry backing, US appeals court rules

September 18, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker

Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Commerce Department’s ruling that the antidumping duty petition for oil country tubular goods from Argentina had proper industry backing.

USITC says in final vote Indian firms harming paprika producers

September 18, 2026

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission voted in a final determination that allegedly dumped and subsidized oleoresin paprika from India has harmed the domestic industry.

USITC preliminarily says industry harmed by Indian imports of Teflon-type chemicals

September 18, 2026

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission unanimously voted to preliminarily determine that a domestic industry is materially injured by perfluoroalkoxy alkane imports from India. PFA is a key compon... (more story)

State Aid View More

EU countries to start aid pre-notifications in first major AI project this month

September 16, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Eleven out of nineteen EU countries involved in the first Important Project of Common European Interest in the field of artificial intelligence and planning to grant state aid, will start pre-not... (more story)

Vindenergi challenging Danish aid for wind farms project at EU court

September 14, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Energy company Dansk Vindenergi is challenging the Danish government's €5 billion plan to back the construction and operation of the Hesselø and North Sea I Mid offshore wind farms at an EU court... (more story)

Czech TV operators ask EU judges to re-allow cancelled state aid

September 14, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: České Radiokomunikace, Digital Broadcasting and Česká televize, three Czech digital terrestrial television infrastructure operators, have asked the EU General Court to overturn a decision by the ... (more story)

Energy View More

EU carmakers urge delay to tighter EV battery rules for UK trade

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: European carmakers are urging the EU and UK to delay tighter rules of origin for electric-vehicle batteries due in 2027, warning that 82 percent of EU EV exports to the UK could otherwise face ta... (more story)

Data centers, some industry would lose EU grid priority in legislative plan

September 17, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

Data centers and energy-intensive industries in the EU would lose priority access to electricity in times of scarcity under a proposal seen by MLex that EU countries are set to discuss on Sept. 22. The EU memb... (more story)

EU shipping carbon-market derogations should run until 2040, lead EU lawmaker says

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Exemptions from the EU's carbon market for shipping should be extended until 2040, European Parliament lawmaker Peter Liese said in a draft report. Liese's proposal differs from that of the Europ... (more story)

Technology View More

US FTC's Ferguson says advocates of One Agency Act 'unrealistic' about costs

September 18, 2026 | Khushita Vasant and Chris May

North America

Proponents of the One Agency Act are “pretty unrealistic” about the magnitude of work that will be required to transfer the US Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust enforcement authority to the US Department of... (more story)

Woodward says US states undermine DOJ by seeking alternative relief in antitrust cases

September 18, 2026 | Khushita Vasant

North America

US state attorneys general are trying to undermine the Department of Justice when they seek alternative relief in antitrust cases where the agency has already struck a settlement, a top DOJ official said Thurs... (more story)

International cooperation on DMA-style rules needs attention, EU official says

September 18, 2026 | Anna Ferrari

Europe

A gap in international cooperation arrangements for Digital Markets Act-style rules makes coordination “worth thinking about,” a European Commission official said. Linsey McCallum said existing frameworks do n... (more story)