Dashboard Insights, published by Foley & Lardner LLP, focuses on legal and business issues affecting the automotive industry and related sectors. The blog covers topics such as environmental compliance including PFAS risk audits, labor relations and union strikes impacting automotive suppliers, federal and state funding programs for manufacturers under USMCA, and strategic considerations for supply chain management. It also addresses emerging technologies like electric vehicles, alternative powertrains, and sustainability initiatives. The content includes analysis of regulatory developments, industry trends, and practical guidance for companies navigating complex legal and operational challenges in the automotive and manufacturing fields.
This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities. Contact your Foley relationship partner, or John R. Trentacosta or Ann Marie Uetz, to follow up.
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As of September 30, 2021, domestic transportation of goods within Mexico will have to be accompanied by a new tax requirement: the Bill of Lading Complement.
Regardless of whether such goods travel by land, rail, air, or sea, either using…
State legislatures across the country spent the first half of 2021 enacting laws that include several changes to warranty reimbursement obligations owed by suppliers to authorized dealers.
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Governments around the globe are facing a classic chicken and egg conundrum – do they wait for automotive 2.0 to arrive en masse before they invest untold sums of money in infrastructure to support the Automotive 2.0 movement, or do…
By now, everyone knows there is a global auto supply shortage. The impacts of pandemic supply constraints and a global microchip shortage have combined to shrink inventory. June sales saw a significant impact on new-car sales, with June down…
As long-time blog readers likely know, we are big fans of car movies, and even bigger fans of car movies that defy the laws of gravity. Of course we could not miss the ninth installment of the best…
Note: We’d like to thank Anna Cumming, summer associate, for her contributions to this alert.
The demand for electric vehicles is increasing rapidly. President Joe Biden’s recent infrastructure proposal included a $174 billion initiative to fund the EV market and…
From 2016 to 2020, Apple bought the most AI companies. Of the AI companies Apple acquired during this time, the following appear to provide technology (e.g., vehicular technology, visual or image processing, or facial recognition) at least tangentially applicable to…
The G-7 summit will be held June 11-13 in the United Kingdom, and world leaders have a slate of major issues to discuss- economic rebounds, international relations, and of course the pandemic and vaccine availability.
However, climate change and global…
