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Closing The Gaps: Managing Operational Risk In The Consumer Products Industry
K&L Gates LLP are most popular: within Immigration, Law Practice Management and Transport topic(s) The most consequential risks facing consumer goods manufacturers rarely originate in the legal department. Instead, they arise upstream in the gaps between what the regulatory team believes state and federal laws require, what procurement actually sources, and what the commercial team ultimately represents on the label.
Closing the Gaps: Managing Operational Risk in the Consumer Products Industry
The most consequential risks facing consumer goods manufacturers rarely originate in the legal department. Instead, they arise upstream in the gaps between what the regulatory team believes state and federal laws require, what procurement actually sources, and what the commercial team ultimately represents on the label. Plaintiffs’ firms have become highly sophisticated at identifying and exploiting these gaps.
Impact Of Tariffs On Commercial Contractual Performance: Can Tariffs Be A Force Majeure Event?
The Trump administration has adopted an aggressive trade policy, announcing a number of actions that will significantly impact global commerce. Most notably, President Donald Trump's tariffs—and the retaliatory tariffs imposed by other nations—are already impacting suppliers' and buyers' ability to perform under commercial contracts. Tariffs may impact contracting parties in a variety of ways, including increasing the cost of performance.
Impact of Tariffs on Commercial Contractual Performance: Can Tariffs Be a Force Majeure Event?
1 Phillips P.R. Core, Inc. v. Tradax Petroleum Ltd., 782 F.2d 314, 319 (2d. Cir. 1985) (noting that the purpose of a force majeure clause is “to relieve a party from its contractual duties when its performance has been prevented by a force beyond its contract or when the purpose of the contract has been frustrated”). 2 N. Ind. Pub. Serv. Co. v. Carbon Cnty. Coal Co., 799 F.2d 265, 275 (7th Cir.
Impact of tariffs on commercial contractual performance: Can tariffs be a force majeure event?
(May 07, 2025) - Marla Reschly, Thomas Allen, Daniel McClurg and Suzi Goebel of K&L Gates LLP discuss how contractual force majeure clauses will apply to situations affected by tariffs imposed under President Donald Trump's administration. The Trump administration has adopted an aggressive trade policy, announcing a number of actions that will significantly impact global commerce.
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