Wednesday morning, the White House declared a new national emergency on products of countries that are “directly or indirectly” importing crude oil and petroleum products from the Russian Federation. The executive order...more
8/7/2025
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Economic Sanctions ,
Energy Sector ,
Executive Orders ,
Imports ,
India ,
International Trade ,
National Security ,
Oil & Gas ,
Russia ,
Section 232 ,
Tariffs ,
US Trade Policies
In the last week, the Trump Administration announced new trade deals with Japan, Indonesia, and the European Union. The White House has now published fact sheets for all three trade deals, outlining the basic structure of the...more
On July 14, 2025, the Commerce Department announced new investigations initiated by the Secretary of Commerce on July 1, 2025, pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The pre-publication Federal Register...more
7/16/2025
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Semiconductors ,
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Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
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
Late this afternoon, President Trump signed a proclamation increasing the Section 232 tariff rate on steel and aluminum articles and their respective derivative products from 25% to 50%. The text of today’s proclamation can...more
6/4/2025
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Executive Orders ,
Imports ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
International Trade ,
Section 232 ,
Steel Industry ,
Tariffs ,
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US Trade Policies
On April 23, 2025, the Commerce Department announced a new investigation initiated pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. This is the fourth Section 232 investigation announced in April 2025, following...more
Over the past few weeks, the Trump Administration has announced three new investigations under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 into whether imports of pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and critical minerals and...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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China ,
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Section 232 ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Deficit ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ,
US Trade Policies
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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China ,
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Imports ,
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International Trade ,
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Section 232 ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Deficit ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration ,
US Trade Policies
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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Canada ,
China ,
Construction Project ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
EU ,
Foreign Trade Zones ,
Imports ,
Infrastructure ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
Real Estate Development ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Retaliatory Tariffs ,
Section 232 ,
Section 301 ,
Steel Industry ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Expansion Act of 1962 ,
Trump Administration ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
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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Canada ,
China ,
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Exports ,
Foreign Policy ,
Foreign Relations ,
Imports ,
Infrastructure ,
Mexico ,
National Security ,
Popular ,
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United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ,
US Trade Policies
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
On February 13, 2025, President Trump signed an executive memorandum on “Reciprocal Trade and Tariffs” directing his economic team to create a “Fair and Reciprocal Plan” for imposing a supplemental tariff that will be...more
2/13/2025
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Trade Policy ,
Trade Relations ,
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US Trade Policies ,
USTR ,
Value-Added Tax (VAT)
President Trump has announced 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from all countries pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The two Presidential Proclamations issued late on February 10, 2025,...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
Today, President Trump reached separate agreements with the leaders of Mexico and Canada to delay implementation of tariffs announced over the weekend and originally set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow (February 4). In...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
Today, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced an agreement reached with five countries – Austria, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom – on digital services tax (DST) measures that had been...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
On September 20, 2021, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) published a final rule codifying numerous changes – both substantive and procedural in nature – to certain portions of the body of regulations governing...more
Importers of vinyl flooring filed a case at the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) on September 10, challenging the Administration’s application of tariffs on products from China on Lists 3 and 4 pursuant to USTR’s...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
At the WTO General Council’s meeting this week in Geneva, the debate over developing country rights at the WTO came to a head. The United States has recently been especially outspoken in its criticism of developing country...more