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President Donald Trump announced Tuesday during his trip to the Middle East that his administration would lift U.S. sanctions on Syria. Since the shock collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria late last year, the...more
On February 1, President Trump signed executive orders imposing additional tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in response to an emergency declared at the border...more
Effective February 20, 2025, the Secretary of State designated eight Latin American organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and as Specially...more
On February 5, 2025, on her first day in office, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued fourteen memos outlining new policies for the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) in a broad range of enforcement arenas. Among these Day...more
The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a formal guidance letter stating that certain kinds of Specially Designated Nationals could speak at a public conference to share their individual...more
Date Issued: Jan. 20, 2025 This executive order initiates the process of designating certain international cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) to address the rise in violence and terror across the western...more
Key Updates - At 10:30am on Feb. 3, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced on X that the Mexico tariffs will be paused for one month. She stated that the United States and Mexico had come to an agreement relating to...more
Key Updates - 2/3: Tariffs paused for 30 days. Trudeau announced also said Canada had committed to creating the post of a special czar to combat the smuggling of fentanyl and would ensure permanent monitoring of the shared...more
On Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, President Donald Trump issued three executive orders raising tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and the People's Republic of China. The executive orders were issued under the International...more
Our team’s annual report on international trade, published in December 2024, alerted readers that the incoming Trump administration would likely be quick to impose additional tariffs on goods from major U.S. trading partners,...more
The President has issued three executive orders that impose universal tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China, deploying IEEPA in a sweeping manner to address the President’s declaration of a national emergency regarding illegal...more
On Saturday, February 1, 2025, President Trump signed three Executive Orders imposing tariffs against goods of the United States’ three largest trading partners—Canada, Mexico and China....more
Just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a memorandum ordering federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of US trade policy, with particular attention devoted to US–China...more
This Order declares a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to designate certain international cartels and other organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations or Specially...more
The supplemental appropriations legislation signed into law on April 24, 2024 enacted numerous high-profile provisions addressing aspects of U.S. foreign policy and national security, including provisions that broaden and...more
The proposed regulations would implement President Biden’s Executive Order that restricts certain outbound investments from the US. On June 21, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued a Notice of Proposed...more
On April 24, 2024, President Biden signed into law a sweeping national security legislative package that included the 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act, which includes measures to promote sanctions and export controls...more
President Biden last month signed into law H.R. 815 (“National Security Supplemental” or “NSS”). The NSS—a package of national security and foreign aid appropriations, including for efforts in Israel, Ukraine, and the...more
Recent weeks have brought news on multiple fronts regarding supply chain risks and actions in response thereto: Commerce ICTS Regulations to Go Into Effect; Chinese ICTS Companies, Products and Services in the...more
The new Executive Order (EO or the Order) bans transactions by US persons in publicly traded securities of companies identified as “Chinese military companies,” and includes a ban on trading in derivatives of those securities...more
The Situation: In an October 1, 2020, Advisory, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") warned that companies that make or facilitate ransomware payments to threat actors who are...more
On October 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an “Advisory on Potential Sanctions Risks for Facilitating Ransomware Payments.” The Advisory, which does not carry the...more
President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) (TikTok EO) August 6, 2020, banning “transactions” yet to be identified by the US Department of Commerce (Commerce) related to TikTok and its parent ByteDance Ltd. Specifically,...more
The Justice Department is often criticized for its lack of transparency. But when it comes to policy changes or initiatives, DOJ is more than transparent – DOJ always tells the public what it plans to do and then does it....more
On December 3, 2019, the U.S. Department Justice (DOJ) announced charges against two Russian nationals, two Italian nationals, a U.S. citizen, and various companies for violating and conspiring to violate the International...more