Background Information CLDP’s Trans-Caspian Trade Route (TCTR) project is funded by the U.S. Department of State and supports the C5+1 goals to expand and develop alternative trade routes for Central Asian countries to mitigate trade disruptions and diversify export destinations. The project involves government and private sector representatives from the Central Asian countries, as well as Georgia...

The Georgian Association of Arbitrators (GAA), in cooperation with the Commercial Law Development Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce (CLDP), have successfully conducted the Borjomi Summer School for Georgian Law Students from 6 – 11 September. Over the last week, 24 students from 13...

On June 14, CLDP, in collaboration with the Georgia chapter of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and ICC Dispute Resolution Services, held a one-day program on the event of the official translation and publication of the ICC Arbitration and Mediation Rules into the Georgian language. The...

From February 14-18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), in coordination with Arbitration Initiative Georgia, led three programs to prepare law students from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Germany to compete in the annual Willem C. Vis International...

On January 31-February 1, CLDP hosted a workshop on intellectual property rights (IPR) for practicing lawyers and law students in Baku, in conjunction the American Chamber of Commerce - Azerbaijan conference on the enforcement and protection of IPR. The workshop included sessions on international...

CLDP and the Georgian National Competition Agency conducted a two-day workshop on June 28-29, 2023, on the fundamentals of effective enforcement in anti-dumping. CLDP convened experts from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce Enforcement and Compliance Division, U.S. International Trade Commission, and the...

On September 13-14, CLDP conducted the workshop AEO in the Republic of Moldova: Best Practices and Experience for the Georgia Revenue Service to assist the Georgia Revenue Service (GRS) in the development of Georgia’s Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) program. CLDP convened delegations from GRS and...

On July 15-16, in cooperation with the Georgian International Arbitration Center (GIAC), CLDP hosted a workshop on the “Complexity of Disputes Arising out of Infrastructure Projects.” The workshop brought Georgian and international experts on alternative dispute resolution and International...

On July 5-6, in cooperation with the Georgian Bar Association (GBA), CLDP hosted a Working Meeting on Georgia’s Law on Entrepreneurs. The event brought together 45 GBA committee heads and other practitioners to discuss, with one of the law’s authors, innovations in the law related to limited...

On May 24-25, 2023, in coordination with Georgia’s Business Rehabilitation and Insolvency Practitioners Association (BRIPA) and USAID, CLDP cohosted and joined the “Challenges of Modern Insolvency Law” Conference in Tbilisi, Georgia. The event brought together Georgian insolvency practitioners from...