Managing Director, Mark Dougherty, together with associate Kirsten Middleton are the authors of the IOM Shipping chapter in this internationally renowned publication.

The International Comparative Legal Guide series provides current and practical comparative legal information on a range of practice areas. This guide follows a question and answer format to ensure thorough coverage of each topic from a legal perspective within various different jurisdictions. The ICLG chapter is distributed online and in hard copy to a large and varied range of users and provides practical cross-border insight into shipping law. DQ is delighted to have been invited to contribute to the Isle of Man chapter. The firm regularly contributes to many legal guides including most recently DQ’s employment team being authors of the Isle of Man chapter for ICLG in the Employment Guide and DQ’s regulatory team being authors of the Isle of Man chapter for data protection.

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Introduction

Under Turkish law, the liability regime is established as personal and unlimited1. However, in some circumstances, the legislation prefers to limit liability, considering the balance of interest between the parties. In this respect, the Turkish Commercial Code ("TCC") adopted the limited liability of a sea carrier under some conditions stipulated in the TCC. Additionally, the TCC relieves the carrier from liability entirely for losses or damages arising from some specific circumstances, providing substantial benefit to the sea carrier. This article reviews the liability regime stipulated in the TCC for sea carriers, and limitations of the same under the TCC.

Author: Thomas B. McVey

On March 19, 2018 the Commerce Department (“Commerce”) published procedures for private companies to seek exclusions from the recent steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by President Trump under the Administration’s national security investigation under §232 of the Trade Expansion Act.1 Under these procedures, companies may request to be exempt from the new tariffs if they meet the standards for exclusion set forth in the release. The procedures also permit private parties to submit objections to exclusion requests submitted by other parties. The procedures were set out in an Interim Final Rule published in the Federal Register (the “Rule”) that amends Commerce’s National Security Industrial Base Regulations. A summary of the new procedures as set forth in the Rule is as follows:

• Types of Submissions. There are three types of submissions contemplated under the Rule: (i) requests for tariff exclusions; (ii) objections to requests for tariff exclusions filed by other parties; and (iii) comments on the Rule.
• Who Can Submit Exclusion Requests: Individuals or organizations using steel articles identified in Presidential Proclamation 9705 or aluminum articles identified in Proclamation 9704 in business activities in the U.S. (e.g., construction, manufacturing, or supplying steel/aluminum product to users) may submit exclusion requests.

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Author: Susan Kohn Ross

On March 1, 2018, President Trump announced his intention to adopt the recommendations of the Dept. of Commerce and impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum. The formal signing is said to be taking place “next week.” President Trump has stated those tariffs will be 25% on foreign-made steel and 10% on foreign-made aluminum. Hopefully when the final document is signed and released, it will become clear how long these tariffs will be in place and whether they will be accompanied by any other measures, such as quotas.

Commerce’s original steel recommendations were: (i) a 24% tariff on all steel imports; or (ii) a 53% tariff on steel imports from Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, India, Malaysia, South Korea, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam; which (iii) could include a quota from all other countries equal to their 2017 level of imports; or (iv) no tariffs, but a quota on all steel products from all countries equal to 63% of their 2017 import levels.

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