Trade
October 20, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
October 20, 2026 | Chris May
Artificial Intelligence
October 20, 2026 | Mike Swift
October 20, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
The American National Red Cross told the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Tuesday that it is immune from Sherman Act claims brought by rival Verax, as intended by Congress.
October 20, 2026
MLex Summary: Cooper Farms and Tyson Foods must face US price-fixing claims over turkey products, according to a federal judge. District Judge Sunil R. Harjani found most of plaintiffs’ allegations sufficient ... (more story)
MLex Summary: The American National Red Cross urged a US appeals court to rule that it is not a “person” for Sherman Act purposes. ANRC asked the court to affirm the dismissal of Verax Biomedical’s antitrust c... (more story)
MLex Summary: Former service secretaries and retired senior military officers supported a full panel rehearing by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit over the Defense Department's designation of Anthrop... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
Businesses in New York City would have to disclose when consumers are talking to automated systems, including AI chatbots, and give residents the option to talk to a human customer service agent instead of bei... (more story)
MLex Summary: OpenAI should not be allowed to minimize the harm caused by its alleged eavesdropping on ChatGPT users, according to plaintiffs bringing US claims. They opposed dismissal, arguing that OpenAI has... (more story)
MLex Summary: CRH and Arcosa have agreed to divest five asphalt plants to remedy competition concerns over their proposed deal. The New Jersey attorney general's office found that CRH's proposed acquisition of... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
Casino operators Fertitta Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment can be expected to tell regulators examining their proposed merger that geographic antitrust markets should be defined broadly due to an increa... (more story)
New Jersey has filed an antitrust lawsuit against hot-mix asphalt companies CRH and Arcosa, whose merger the state alleges would result in harm to competition for New Jersey Department of Transportation contra... (more story)
MLex Summary: Canada Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne announced the launch of a Children’s Privacy Code aimed at creating a safer, more transparent online environment for children and teens. Among other ... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Europe
Clearview AI monitors people’s behavior by continually collecting and organizing information about them, the UK's privacy regulator told the Court of Appeal on Tuesday in the company's challenge against the IC... (more story)
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Homeland Security published notice of an order banning Chinese company DeepSeek's IT products from federal civilian agency procurement. The order also bars "DeepSeek and Deep... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Steve Scherer
Asia, Europe, North America
Roche’s pact with Hansoh underscores China’s growing importance in supplying experimental medicines, supported by rapid development and greater trust in its science. Hansoh will receive $400 million upfront an... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's iconic juice maker Huiyuan is at the center of an escalating trademark dispute, with its original operating group announcing plans to stop using the brand after affiliated companies were ordered to pay... (more story)
October 19, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Four US Supreme Court justices recused themselves from review of a copyright decision on the global nature of termination notices, leaving the court without a quorum and resulting in the affirmance of the US C... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
A US magistrate judge rejected motions for reconsideration from multiple prior judicial rulings against a former Venezuelan vice minister of energy and the ex-president of a subsidiary of the Venezuelan state-... (more story)
MLex Summary: A US magistrate judge rejected motions for reconsideration from prior judicial rulings against a former Venezuelan vice minister of energy and the ex-president of a subsidiary of the Venezuelan s... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Neil Roland
Following a government report last week on banks’ denial of services to politically conservative clients, US regulators are investigating rule compliance among the banks in the report and are considering rules... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Martin Coyle
ING has been prevented from immediately terminating its banking relationship with energy giant Gazprom, after a Dutch court ruled it must give the Russian company more time to find another EU lender. Gazprom h... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Existing EU rules for the consolidated tape, which provides a live stream of market data from trading venues, would remain unchanged under a compromise proposed by key EU lawmaker Markus Ferber and obtained by... (more story)
October 19, 2026
MLex Summary: More stringent transparency and supervisory rules would apply to banks that execute trades internally — known as systematic internalizers — under a compromise proposed by key EU lawmaker Markus F... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Zack Budryk
Representatives of US industry spoke in favor of imposing antidumping and countervailing duty orders on amine compounds from China at a US International Trade Commission public preliminary conference Tuesday.
MLex Summary: US importer The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. has filed a lawsuit at the Court of International Trade challenging Customs and Border Protection's determination that it must pay antidumping and antis... (more story)
MLex Summary: Italian producer and US importer Officina Meccanica Roselli S.r.l filed a lawsuit against the Commerce Department to contest the agency's September review of an antisubsidy order on forged steel ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Indonesia is seeking to turn its large digital consumer market into a source of greater productivity, innovation and domestic technology development while strengthening regulatory certainty for i... (more story)
MLex Summary: Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said on Monday in documents submitted to a Finance Ministry advisory panel that it plans to seek a total of 400 billion yen (around $2.5 billion) i... (more story)
October 16, 2026
MLex Summary: Italy's energy decree — aimed at shielding households and businesses from high electricity prices — will undergo EU state aid scrutiny, after the national government and the European Commission r... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Talks on amendments to the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act will begin on Nov. 4, as governments seek more information on a proposed center to help secure supplies. The European Commission plans to circulate a ... (more story)
MLex Summary: The EU aims to conclude negotiations with the UK on a deal to ease food and agricultural trade by aligning health and safety rules, as well as linking their emissions trading systems as a package... (more story)
MLex Summary: The European Parliament on Tuesday backed changes to the Critical Raw Materials Act that would create a dedicated EU agency, allow restrictions on exports of permanent magnet scrap and waste, and... (more story)
The UK online regulator considered seeking an urgent court order over sexualized AI deepfakes generated using X's chatbot Grok, but the legal threshold prevented immediate intervention, the CEO of Ofcom told l... (more story)
Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms' Oversight Board has said the company must “do more to ensure that its enforcement practices during elections are transparent and consistent” following concerns of “recurring enfor... (more story)
October 20, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Legal challenges from Meta Platforms, X and TikTok aren’t weakening the UK online safety regulator’s appetite for enforcement, its chief executive told lawmakers on Tuesday. Melanie Dawes said Ofcom would robu... (more story)