In March 2018, President Donald J. Trump invoked Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1862), to impose duties on imports of steel (25 percent ad valorem) and aluminum (10 percent ad valorem)...more
On February 10, 2025, President Trump signed new Executive Orders imposing enhanced import duties on steel and aluminum products under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The orders eliminate certain exemptions...more
- In Presidential Proclamation 10060, announced on August 6, 2020, President Trump reinstated a 10 percent ad valorem tariff on imports of non-alloyed unwrought aluminum from Canada under the Section 232 of the Trade...more
On May 26, 2020, the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (“DOC”) published a Federal Register notice seeking written comments on ways to improve the exclusion process for tariffs and quotas imposed on...more
The Situation: The Trump administration announced new tariffs on imports of certain derivative, or "downstream," steel and aluminum articles with exemptions for certain countries. These tariffs are in addition to the existing...more
- President Trump issued Presidential Proclamation 9980 on January 24, 2020, expanding the product scope of existing tariffs imposed under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 on certain articles of aluminum and...more
On October 28, 2019, the Commerce Department’s Office of the Inspector General (the “Office” or “OIG”) issued a memorandum to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to communicate the Office’s concerns about the process for...more
On May 17, 2019, President Trump announced two significant trade developments. First, the President announced his determination in the national security investigation of imports of autos and auto parts under Section 232 of...more
The Department of Commerce Initiates National Security Investigation of Imports of Titanium Sponge under Section 232 - On March 4, 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) initiated an investigation under...more
On January 30, 2019, legislation was introduced in the Senate and House on a bi-partisan basis that would curtail the President’s power to impose tariffs for national security reasons. The Bicameral Congressional Trade...more
In response to Congressional concerns, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) has agreed to review the process by which the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) has been processing steel and aluminum tariff...more
On November 26, 2018, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) asking the GAO to review the process by which the Department of Commerce has been processing...more
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND TRADE - Dumping - U.S.: Imports of a type of polyester from Asia will face new anti-dumping duties of up to 50% under a recent International Trade Commission (ITC) ruling issued on July 19, 2018 ...more
On April 3, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released a list of proposed products that may be subjected to additional tariffs of 25 percent ad valorem, in accordance with President Trump's March 22...more
On March 8, President Donald Trump announced that trade remedies would be imposed on steel and aluminum imports pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962....more
President Trump has issued new Proclamations regarding Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum, amending the original Proclamations (9704 and 9705) issued on March 8. The most notable changes concern country-wide...more
This morning, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued an interim final rule establishing the process by which organizations may submit requests for exclusions from the 25% duties on steel...more
Pursuant to President’s Trump’s March 8, 2018 proclamations issued under authority of Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, added customs tariffs on imports of a wide variety of steel and aluminum imports from all...more
On March 8, 2018, President Trump signed proclamations imposing tariffs on aluminum and steel imports. The tariffs are being imposed pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 following reports from the...more
If your company is a U.S. consumer of imported steel or aluminum, the new tariffs announced by President Trump on March 8, 2018 are bad news. The good news is that you can petition the government for exclusions of certain...more
President Trump recently announced his intent to make good on his campaign promise to impose new, significant tariffs on many imports of steel and aluminum products to the United States. The announcement followed a Department...more
President Donald Trump surprised even his own senior staff on March 1 when he announced his intention to impose global tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum....more
All choices involve costs. That’s axiomatic in the field of economics. The U.S. government imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports this week using presidential authority under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and the...more
On March 8, 2018, President Trump signed proclamations authorizing the imposition of a 25 percent customs duty on certain steel products and a 10 percent customs duty on certain aluminum products. The duties were imposed...more
President Trump’s proclamation imposing additional tariffs of 25 percent on certain steel products and 10 percent on some aluminum products has caused widespread reassessment of the competitive effects of tariffs on...more