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 Wednesday, July 9, President Trump issued letters to eight additional trade partners notifying them of their country-specific reciprocal tariff rates that will go into effect on August 1. An updated reciprocal tariff chart...more
7/14/2025
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Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Orders ,
Foreign Policy ,
Foreign Relations ,
International Trade ,
Investigations ,
Sanctions ,
Section 301 ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration ,
US Trade Policies ,
USTR
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
/ Aluminum Sales ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Executive Orders ,
Imports ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
International Trade ,
Section 232 ,
Steel Industry ,
Tariffs ,
Trump Administration ,
US Trade Policies
We provide two tariff program updates, of relevance to the steel and aluminum Section 232 tariff programs and the IEEPA tariff programs specific to Canada and Mexico. First, last week, the United States and the United Kingdom...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
/ Canada ,
China ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Executive Orders ,
Imports ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
International Trade ,
National Security ,
Reciprocity Rules ,
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
/ Canada ,
China ,
Executive Orders ,
Imports ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
International Trade ,
National Security ,
Reciprocity Rules ,
Section 232 ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Deficit ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration ,
US Trade Policies
President Trump issued two major tariff-related executive orders in the past 48 hours. The first, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), authorizes the Secretary of State to impose tariffs on...more
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
/ Agribusiness ,
Canada ,
China ,
Executive Orders ,
Exports ,
Foreign Policy ,
Foreign Relations ,
Imports ,
Infrastructure ,
Mexico ,
National Security ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ,
US Trade Policies
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
/ Exports ,
Foreign Policy ,
Foreign Relations ,
Imports ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Policy ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US Trade Policies ,
USTR ,
Value-Added Tax (VAT)
Today, the Government of Canada announced that it will be imposing retaliatory tariffs in response to President Trump’s February 1, 2025 tariffs of 25% on goods from Canada, as well as 25% on Mexican imports and 10% on...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
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
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 April 25, 2019, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) issued its 2019 “Special 301 Report” on inadequate protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights by the United States’ trading partners. USTR...more
This morning, on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Argentina, the United States, Canada, and Mexico signed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The new trade deal is slated to replace the 24-year old North American...more
On October 1, 2018, the United States, Canada, and Mexico announced that they had reached an agreement to “modernize” the 24-year old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). When NAFTA came into effect, it created the...more
11/7/2018
/ Canada ,
CPTPP ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Free Trade Agreements ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Mexico ,
NAFTA ,
Popular ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ,
US Trade Policies