On Monday, President Trump announced new country-specific reciprocal tariff rates for a number of trading partners in a series of letters posted to Truth Social. President Trump also signed an executive order that further...more
On April 2, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) imposing reciprocal tariffs on most nations. The new tariffs, which include a baseline rate of 10 percent as well as higher rates for dozens of trading...more
4/2/2025
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On April 2, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) imposing reciprocal tariffs on most nations. The new tariffs, which include a baseline rate of 10 percent as well as higher rates for dozens of trading...more
4/2/2025
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Tariffs of 25% on steel and aluminum mill products from all sources, imposed under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, went in effect at 12:01 this morning...more
3/13/2025
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The tariff news of the last day has been coming at full speed. Whether a small manufacturer or part of a multinational group company; a firm that manages cross-border supply chains on a daily basis or one that rarely thought...more
3/7/2025
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In the past 10 days, we’ve seen multiple Executive Orders issued from the Trump Administration related to international trade and tariffs. We’ve issued multiple Client Advisories related to these actions and offer this recap...more
Tonight, the White House released Executive Orders placing additional duties on all imports from Canada, Mexico, and China under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), among other authorities. The Executive...more
On January 20, 2025, as one of his first acts in office, President Trump signed a memorandum entitled the “America First Trade Policy” directed to the Secretaries of Commerce, State, Treasury, Defense, and Homeland Security,...more
On November 25, President-elect Trump announced on social media that on January 20, his first day in office, his administration will impose new tariffs on all imports from China, Mexico, and Canada. In two separate messages,...more
On November 1, 2022, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) took the next step in its statutory four-year review of the duties levied on Chinese-origin goods pursuant to Section 301 of the Trade Act of...more
On Monday, October 4, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai delivered a long anticipated speech framing the Biden Administration’s trade policy toward China. Among the announcements made were that (1) a Section 301 product...more
Late last week, China filed a request with the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) for authorization to “suspend concessions and related obligations” in the amount of $2.4 billion as recourse for the...more
Last June, pursuant to Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, President Trump announced the imposition of a tariff of 25 percent on certain imported goods from China (valued at $34 billion) in response to China’s unfair...more
On Wednesday, President Trump issued a statement in support of restrictions on Chinese investment in the United States in firms with critical technologies, and in greater protection of those technologies through enhanced...more
On April 13, 2018, the Treasury Department released its biannual report to Congress on the Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States, which declined to formally label China a...more
Late last week, the Government of China announced that it would be removing export taxes on many steel products, including wire, rods, bars, billets, and stainless steel plate, as of January 1, 2018. The move is part of a...more
Last week, the United States filed its first legal analysis of the China non-market economy issue in a dispute at the World Trade Organization brought by China against the European Union....more
On October 26, 2017, the Department of Commerce announced the results of an investigation concluding that China is a non-market economy (“NME”) country for purposes of Commerce’s antidumping analysis. Commerce’s decision...more
Earlier this month, leaders at the G-20 Summit in Hangzhou, China announced the need for a “collective response” to the problem of global steel overcapacity. To that end, the G-20 members agreed to the creation of a Global...more