OVERVIEW -
The Trump Administration has made it clear that it intends to increase the United States’s production of critical minerals, with a focus on copper, through its implementation of the “Unleashing American Energy”...more
On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order designed to address the threat posed to the United States by trade deficits....more
4/9/2025
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Those in the critical minerals industry have been waiting to see what President Donald Trump’s next move would be after his “Unleashing American Energy” Executive Order on January 20, 2025 (the “January Executive Order”),...more
On 12 March 2025, the United States (US) imposed tariffs of up to 25% on imports of steel, aluminium, and certain products containing steel and aluminium from the European Union (EU) and other trading partners....more
As global economic and geopolitical environments enter a new era, companies need to continuously develop and adjust their coherent global business strategies to secure and further expand business opportunities in all markets...more
1/2/2025
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Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)
On November 14, 2024, the Chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (“CCP”), John Moolenaar (R-MI), introduced H.R. 10127, the Restoring Trade Fairness Act (the “Legislation"), which would suspend US...more
On May 14, 2024, the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) released the results of its statutorily required review of the tariff actions in USTR’s Section 301 investigation of China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices...more
On December 12, 2023, the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (“Select Committee”) released a report titled “Reset, Prevent, Build: A Strategy to Win America’s Economic Competition with the Chinese...more
12/22/2023
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