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Japan, US and the EU face-off against Ontario's renewable energy program at the WTO

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
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  • Canada, European Union, Japan, USA
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  • December 20 2010

The debate over Ontario's feed-in-tariff Program (the FIT Program) was elevated to a new level in September, when Japan launched a dispute settlement proceeding against Canada at the World Trade Organization (WTO

WTO dispute talks seat

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Canada, European Union, Japan, USA
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  • September 8 2011

The United States requested August 29 to become an observer at the World Trade Organization dispute settlement talks with the European Union, Japan, and Canada regarding a challenge filed by the EU and Japan against a green energy program in Canada, citing trade interests

Nuclear safety plan

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Japan, USA
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  • March 11 2012

The Nuclear Energy Institute announced March 6 that the nuclear industry will proceed with the acquisition of additional safety equipment at the country’s nuclear power plants as its top response to last year’s Japanese nuclear crisis

First post-Fukushima rulemakings begin

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Japan, USA
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  • March 11 2012

Almost a year after the Japanese nuclear crisis, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission directed commission staff last week to begin drafting the first three orders designed to improve the safety of U.S. nuclear plants

WTO rare earth dispute resubmitted

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • China, European Union, Global, Japan, USA
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  • July 15 2012

The European Union, Japan, and the United States placed July 13 a second request on the World Trade Organization’s July 23 Dispute Settlement Body agenda asking the organization to establish a dispute panel to rule whether China’s restrictions on rare earths exports violate global trade rules

U.S. government expected to approve expanded LNG exports to Japan

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Japan, USA
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  • July 18 2012

For more than 40 years only one U.S. terminal exported LNG to Japan

US-Japan RE dialogue

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Japan, USA
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  • October 14 2012

The International Trade Administration will lead a delegation of U.S. companies to participate in a Renewable Energy Policy Business Roundtable December 3-7 in Tokyo in conjunction with the U.S.-Japan Energy Policy Dialogue. Following the roundtable, the delegation will travel to the northeast region for site visits

U.S. LNG terminal to be fed by Canadian shale gas applies for export approval

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Japan, USA
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  • August 10 2012

On July 16, 2012, Oregon LNG filed an application with the Department of Energy (DOE) for authorization to export LNG to countries which do not have free trade agreements (FTAs) with the U.S., including Japan

Japan roundtable

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Japan, USA
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  • October 21 2012

The Department of Commerce and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry will hold a roundtable December 3 in conjunction with the Department of Energy’s Energy Policy Dialogue

US LNG exports to Japan

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • Japan, USA
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  • September 30 2012

Most US free trade agreements (FTAs) provide for “national treatment” of liquified natural gas (LNG) exports, which means that exports from the US to FTA countries must be approved without delay by the US Department of Energy (DOE) under Section 3 of the US Natural Gas Act