On July 30, 2025, President Trump issued a Presidential Proclamation1 that imposed a 50 percent tariff on the copper input value of imports of semi-finished copper and intensive copper derivative products effective August 1,...more
The Trump Administration announced in an executive order that it will institute and impose an additional 25% on imports of goods with a country of origin India effective August 27, 2025 to address India’s imports of Russian...more
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 July 30, President Trump took two actions that represent a significant escalation in the administration’s evolving trade strategy: (1) a presidential proclamation (the proclamation) imposing a 50% ad valorem tariff on...more
Sectoral tariffs are emerging as a preferred tool for the White House that leaves targeted industries, and those reliant on their import supply, subject to appreciably higher customs duties on imported goods. A wide range of...more
On July 30, the White House issued three executive orders in another flurry of changes to the tariff landscape. As a result of the executive orders, certain copper products and products of Brazil will be subject to 50 percent...more
Key Takeaways - The U.S. Department of Commerce has launched national security investigations into imports of polysilicon and drones under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act....more
As the Aug. 1, 2025, end date for President Donald Trump's most recent suspension of country-specific reciprocal tariffs approaches, stakeholders should consider where ongoing bilateral negotiations stand, what the potential...more
On July 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a Federal Register notice soliciting public comments on an investigation into the national security impacts of imported unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or drones) and...more
On July 16, 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce launched new Section 232 investigations on imports of Chinese drones and polysilicon. Drones and polysilicon are both currently subject to additional tariffs of 55% and 80%,...more
The Department of Commerce (Commerce) has launched two additional Section 232 investigations covering unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), their parts and components, and of polysilicon and its derivatives. President Trump is...more
On July 9, President Trump told a group of reporters that a 50% tariff on all copper imports was imminent....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
One June 24, 2025 CBP published updated guidance via a CSMS Message on Section 232 tariffs, correcting the number for preexisting HTSUS subheading 9903.81.98. The change effects steel or iron derivative items imported from...more
In a notice dated June 12, 2025, the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security announced that it is adding 11 new HTS subheadings to the list of derivative products subject to the 50% Section 232 steel tariffs...more
In a recent Federal Register notice the Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS) of the Department of Commerce announced that “On May 1, 2025, the Secretary of Commerce initiated an investigation to determine the effects on the...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
On May 22, 2025, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released a diverse list of 58 requests for new products to be added to the list of derivatives subject to the Section 232 tariffs on steel...more
On May 1, 2025, the Secretary of Commerce initiated a new investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Section 232) on imports of commercial aircraft and jet engines, and parts for commercial aircraft...more
Under Proclamation 10908 of March 26, 2025 (Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts Into the United States), tariffs on automobiles have been in effect since April 3, 2025, and tariffs on automobile parts are...more
On April 23, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced its initiation of investigations into the national security effects of imports of critical minerals and medium/heavy trucks, parts for such goods, and their...more
On April 15, 2025, President Trump directed the Secretary of Commerce to initiate an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 examining the threats to national security from imports of processed...more
On March 26, 2025, President Trump issued Proclamation 10908—Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts into the United States—that imposed an additional 25% tariff on all imports of automobiles and certain...more
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on March 26, 2025, invoking Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to impose an additional 25 percent tariff on imports of vehicles and certain automotive parts....more