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Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 73 - Geopolitical Risk: Thai Tensions / Sanctions, Tariffs & FCPA Enforcement in Asia
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Hot Topics in International Trade - Tariff Mitigation Strategies
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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 10, 2025
Domestic U.S. shipping interests are closely monitoring a United States Trade Representative (USTR) proposal for import and export trades involving Chinese vessels. There is a Section 301 investigation prompted by domestic...more
Newly proposed tariffs and restrictions on China’s maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding practices were issued on April 17, 2025. The United States Trade Representative’s (“USTR”) Section 301 investigation found China holds...more
The Notice also proposes new tariffs on Chinese origin ship-to-shore (STS) cranes and cranes and parts containing Chinese components. Interested parties may submit comments in response to these proposed measures before May...more
USTR’s actions target China’s vessel operators, Chinese-built ships, Chinese cargo-handling equipment, LNG export vessels, and vehicle carriers. Chinese-operated ships and Chinese-built ships owned by non-Chinese vessel...more
On April 17, 2025, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued a final notice of action for its Section 301 investigation on "China's Targeting the Maritime, Logistics, and Shipbuilding Sectors for...more
On April 17, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced proposed trade actions under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 (Trade Act) to counteract China’s systemic dominance in the maritime,...more
The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on April 17, 2025, announced its long-awaited final proposed measures to combat China's dominance in the maritime sector by imposing fees on Chinese-linked ships. Public criticism of...more
The United States is no longer the global power in shipbuilding that it once was, but under the Trump Administration, this may change, and for the better, at least perhaps as far as U.S. shipbuilding is concerned....more
On March 3, 2025, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released the 2025 Trade Policy Agenda and 2024 Annual Report by the United States Trade Representative of the President of the United States on the...more
The month of April will mark the close of the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, in which we have already seen a number of significant trade-related announcements, orders, actions, and retractions come from...more
President Trump announced his America First Trade Policy on his first day in office. This Policy directed federal agencies to conduct investigations on a wide spectrum of trade policies including Addressing Unfair and...more
President Trump returned to office for a second non-contiguous term in January 2025 with a much more coherent and methodical trade plan than during his first administration. This term, he aims to prioritize strict...more
After we published our Week Five in Trade post last week concerning additional sector-specific import tariffs, President Trump on Friday, February 21 signed a memorandum paving the way for the U.S. to retaliate against...more
The scope of new import tariffs and regulations portends significant operational risks and disruptions. It is easy to imagine numerous companies that depend on imports for production purposes are facing a new set of...more
Requires a variety of reports and recommendations to be delivered to the President by April 1, 2025: on the causes of the persistent trade deficit, how to establish the External Revenue Service, unfair foreign trade...more
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) joint review process is scheduled to begin on July 1, 2026, but the time to prepare is now. Embedded trade compliance professionals should already be doing scenario...more
President Trump has been clear that tariffs will be a policy cornerstone of his second administration. Whether being used as leverage to extract policy concessions or to address true bilateral trade imbalances, the threat of...more
The first two days of the new Trump administration were marked by pronouncements that portend short-run uncertainty about the tariff environment. Although President Trump’s past statements had led many people to expect he...more
During his campaign, President Trump often stated that he would be implementing an “America First” international trade policy, which he said explicitly would include higher tariffs, potentially on imports from the entire...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
President Donald Trump issued an “American First Trade Policy Memorandum” as part of wide-ranging executive actions on Jan. 20, his first day in office. The memorandum calls for a series of reviews of U.S. trade policy and...more
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to assume office on January 20, numerous tariff proposals have already been put forward that could significantly impact the electric vehicle (EV) and battery supply chain industry....more
President-elect Donald Trump’s second term will almost certainly usher in profound changes to U.S. international trade and national security policy....more
Tariffs remain the focus of the incoming Trump Administration. Over the past several months, the announcements from president-elect Trump and his transition team have been dynamic. We expect the Trump trade policy team to use...more
Trade Agenda for Donald Trump’s Second Term and the Role of the 119th Congress - Donald Trump's first term as president was defined by a protectionist trade policy focused on renegotiating trade agreements and imposing...more