The European Union is attempting to exert extraterritorial regulatory powers on the domestic corporate activity of third-party nations through the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive. In short, the CSDDD would attempt to impose EU law and international agreements that the US has not ratified on the domestic corporate activity of US companies if they have EU operations that meet a certain threshold. However, Volume XLVIII staff editor Antonio Videla argues that this attempt is unlikely to succeed because the US will not accept an intrusion of its sovereignty and this attempt likely runs contrary to international law.
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