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Hot Topics in International Trade - June 2025 - Tariffs and the Future of U.S. Beef

On April 2, 2025, President Trump announced reciprocal tariffs, setting a baseline rate of 10% on imports from all countries, with higher rates on dozens of countries which the United States (U.S.) runs trade deficits....more

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U.S. Reaches Agreement on Trade Deal with United Kingdom

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President Trump and UK Prime Minster Keir Starmer announced on Thursday morning that the two countries have agreed on a trade deal, although many of the details are yet to be finalized. The agreement, which focuses on tariff...more

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US International Trade Commission Institutes Global Safeguard Investigation Concerning Fresh, Chilled and Frozen Blueberries

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The US International Trade Commission (ITC) instituted a global safeguard investigation concerning imports of fresh, chilled or frozen blueberries, pursuant to Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974, on October 6, 2020. In its...more

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Brexit and the United States

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In 2018, the United States was the UK’s largest single trading partner, with exports and imports worth £190.5 billion (roughly $247 billion) – a figure equal to 14.7 percent of the UK’s total trade. Thus, businesses active in...more

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United States and China trade deal takes shape

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 2 (January 23, 2020)- United States President Donald Trump announced in December 2019 that a trade deal with China would require approximately three phases. On Jan. 15 President...more

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United States and China Sign "Phase One" Trade Agreement; USTR Implements Tariff Reduction for "List 4A" Goods

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On January 15, 2020, President Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed "Phase One" of an Economic and Trade Agreement between the United States and China. The Phase One Agreement, which the two sides announced in...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - January 2020

Energy Infrastructure Attacks are ‘Probable’: Oil Traders Fear Supply Disruptions in the Middle East - "A dramatic escalation of geopolitical tensions will most likely result in an unplanned oil supply shortage in the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.6.2020 | Top Story: Oil Futures Jump as Concerns Deepen Over Mideast Volatility

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Oil jumped for a second straight day, with futures near $70/barrel as fallout from the U.S.’s drone-strike assassination of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani continues to raise “the prospect of disruptions in the world’s most important...more

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Year-End Trade Deals Offer Hope for U.S. Business in 2020

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December 2019 has yielded some potentially significant relief to U.S. businesses and agricultural producers that may improve the terms of trade in 2020 after a prolonged period of increasing and damaging friction in...more

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United States And China Reach "Phase One" Trade Agreement

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The United States and China reached “a Phase One trade deal that requires structural reforms and other changes to China’s economic and trade regime in the areas of intellectual property, technology transfer, agriculture,...more

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US-Mexico-Canada Agreement Advantages Over NAFTA Relating To Intellectual Property, Agriculture and Automotive Manufacturing

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Passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has recently been characterized by the media as a political issue, with President Trump pushing for a vote by year’s end and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not...more

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White House Rescinds Section 232 Steel and Aluminum Tariff Exemptions for Argentina and Brazil

President Trump, on December 2, 2019, announced via a Twitter post that the tariff exemptions granted to Argentina and Brazil from tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum imports would end “effective...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - August 2019 #2

A Turning Point for U.S. Power Generation - "For the first time in U.S. history, renewable energies briefly generated more electricity than coal in April this year, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and...more

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United States Releases Annual Assessment of Foreign Trade Barriers

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On March 29, 2019, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published its annual National Trade Estimate (NTE) Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, which "highlights significant foreign barriers to U.S....more

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New United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement

On November 30, 2018 the United States, Mexico, and Canada formally signed the new cross-border trading agreement known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (the "USMCA"), ending almost two years of economic...more

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Regional Shake-Up or More of the Same? How the USMCA Impacts North American Trade

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The Situation: The United States, Canada, and Mexico recently reached an agreement in principle to revise and replace the North American Free Trade Agreement ("NAFTA") with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement ("USMCA")....more

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International Trade: A New Dawn for North American Trade

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The business community, lawmakers and even workers across North America breathed a collective sigh of relief on October 1, 2018, after the renegotiated NAFTA agreement was unveiled. Following negotiations that had become...more

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AFTA NAFTA: USMCA and the path forward

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On 30 September, after an intensive, last-minute flurry of negotiations, Canada joined the United States and Mexico in a new trilateral agreement to replace the original North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA 1.0). ...more

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U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement Announced

On Sunday, September 30, President Trump reached an agreement with the governments of Canada and Mexico to revise and modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Publishing the text of the new agreement just...more

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U.S., Mexico, Canada Agree to Update NAFTA

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After more than a year of sometimes contentious negotiations, the United States, Mexico, and Canada (the “Parties”) reached an agreement late Sunday night to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”)—renaming...more

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Introducing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)

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After 13 months of negotiations, the United States, Mexico and Canada have concluded the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The USMCA is designed to replace the quarter-century-old North American Free Trade...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

The Ins and Outs of Canada’s New Trade Agreement and NAFTA Replacement, the USMCA

On September 30, 2018, Canada and the United States resolved outstanding trade issues and announced that they, together with Mexico, agreed to a trilateral United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Once ratified, the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

NAFTA Agreement Reached at the Eleventh Hour

A tripartite agreement to save NAFTA has been reached. The agreement, reached late last night, provides Congress the necessary 60 days’ notice of the text to approve so that President Pena Nieto of Mexico can sign before he...more

Ladas & Parry LLP

USMCA – New Agreement as to The Modernization of NAFTA Comes with Key Changes Regarding U.S. IP Rights

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Late on September 30, an agreement (USMCA) was reached between the United States, Mexico and Canada which modernizes the 24 year old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)....more

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Window On Washington - Vol. 2, Issue 36

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Minibus Progress. The first minibus package, which contains the Energy and Water, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Legislative Branch appropriations bills, is in...more

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