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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On July 30, the White House issued three executive orders in another flurry of changes to the tariff landscape. As a result of the executive orders, certain copper products and products of Brazil will be subject to 50 percent...more
On July 31, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order modifying the so-called reciprocal tariffs implemented under IEEPA. Country-specific rates, originally announced on April 2 through Executive Order 14527, have been...more
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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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
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
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
UPDATE: On April 9, just hours after higher country-specific reciprocal tariffs took effect on imports from a wide-range of countries, President Trump announced a 90-day pause for countries that have not retaliated against...more