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deceptive trade practices
Coverage of deceptive trade practices in the Nexus archive.
- Williamson County jury finds homebuilder liable for fraud in flood-risk lawsuit
A Williamson County jury found a homebuilder liable for multiple legal violations, including statutory fraud, common-law fraud, fraud by nondisclosure, deceptive trade practices, breach of contract, and unconscionable conduct in a flood-risk lawsuit.
- Chasing billions: Indonesia’s commodity export crackdown sows confusion
Indonesia lost nearly US$1 trillion in resource wealth over 34 years due to deceptive trade practices, according to President Prabowo Subianto. New export controls require foreign-exchange earnings to be locked in Indonesian banks and producers of coal, palm oil, and ferroalloys to route sales through a state-owned enterprise.