President Trump continues to issue letters to countries notifying them of the tariff rates they will be subject to come August 1. For the United States’ most important trading partners, Canada, Mexico and the EU, this means...more
Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum have been in effect since 2018, during the first Trump administration. Until recently, importers had been able to file exclusion requests at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau...more
President Trump Announces Higher Tariff Rates Effective August 1st- After announcing an extension of the reciprocal tariff rates from July 9, 2025, to August 1,2025, President Trump published letters which were sent to...more
Key Takeaways - Tariff Deadline Extended to August 1: President Trump postponed the implementation of country-specific reciprocal tariffs from July 9 to August 1, giving countries additional time to negotiate deals with the...more
Uncertainty around the reciprocal tariffs continues to abound as President Trump has extended the deadline for the imposition of the country-specific reciprocal tariffs while at the same time notifying certain countries of...more
On July 7, President Trump began sending letters to select U.S. trading partners informing them of new “reciprocal” tariff rates that will be effective Aug. 1. These letters update the rates that the recipient country was...more
We continue to follow the U.S.-Canada trade dispute, in the context of the changing global trade situation, and will continue to update the following as required. This post updates the situation to include (i) the U.S....more
On June 16, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order setting a 7.5% Section 232 tariff on U.K.-origin cars which are imported under the 100,000 quota, per the announced trade deal with the U.K. Combined with the...more
With less than a month until the reciprocal tariffs are scheduled to snap into effect, foreign governments continue to pursue negotiations with the Trump Administration around individual country tariff rates. On Monday, June...more
President Trump said today that his administration reached a tentative agreement on a trade truce with China following talks between the two sides in London. According to the President, the tentative agreement will result in...more
On June 3, 2025, President Trump signed a Proclamation increasing Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, including derivative articles, from 25% to 50% ad valorem. The increase follows the reinstatement and...more
On June 3, President Trump issued a proclamation doubling tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum articles and derivative steel and aluminum articles from 25% to 50%, effective at 12:01 a.m. EDT on June 4. This action, taken...more
Late on the afternoon of June 3, the President issued a proclamation to increase from 25% to 50% the section 232 tariffs on articles and derivatives of steel and aluminum, effective at 12:01 am on June 4. While this official...more
Late this afternoon, President Trump signed a proclamation increasing the Section 232 tariff rate on steel and aluminum articles and their respective derivative products from 25% to 50%. The text of today’s proclamation can...more
On June 3, 2025, President Trump issued a Proclamation (“the Proclamation”) increasing the Section 232 duties on imports of aluminum and steel from 25% to 50%. The Proclamation states that the previously imposed steel and...more
On Friday, President Trump announced at a rally at U.S. Steel’s facility in Pennsylvania that he will double the tariffs on steel imports from 25 percent to 50 percent. In a social media post following his speech, President...more
In the last week, the winds of change have calmed a bit on what has been a tumultuous sea of tariffs over the last four months. The Trump Administration has announced no new tariff measures, and no new investigations of...more
After announcing and then pausing the implementation of wide-ranging reciprocal tariffs last month, the Trump Administration has recently taken notable steps aimed at recalibrating and improving U.S. trading relationships....more
Welcome to the May 2025 issue of “As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns,” our monthly newsletter where we compile essential updates from the customs and trade world over the past month. We bring you the most recent and...more
On May 12, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order temporarily reducing the “reciprocal” tariffs on China, Hong Kong, and Macau origin goods from 125% to 10%, and lowering tariffs imposed on international mail parcels...more
After negotiations over the weekend in Geneva, Switzerland, the United States and China reached a new trade deal on Monday, May 12, 2025, to temporarily slash tariffs on each country’s goods by 115 percent for the next 90...more
This past Saturday, the last piece of the automobile tariffs came into force when those 25 percent tariffs became effective on imported automobile parts (including engines and engine parts, transmissions and powertrain parts,...more
Some importers are finding, to their surprise, that the Trump Administration’s 25% tariffs on aluminum and steel create an exemption from the 125% tariffs on Chinese goods. The Trump tariff agenda has been complex, to say...more
The White House issued a new Executive Order (the “EO”) on April 29, 2025, regarding the potential for a “stacking” effect of its 25% Section 232 automobile and parts tariffs, the 25% tariff applicable to non-USMCA imports...more
On April 29, the Trump administration published two actions, an Executive Order (EO) and a Proclamation, announcing amendments to the current convoluted tariff situation. The EO describes when and how various tariff actions...more