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President Trump Signs Three Executive Orders Relating to Artificial Intelligence

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On July 23, 2025, just hours after releasing the AI Action Plan, President Donald Trump signed three executive orders aimed at accelerating data center construction, expanding the global reach of U.S. AI technology and...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Additional Tariffs of 25% on Indian Origin Goods Effective August 27, 2025

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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

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - August 2025 - The U.S. Effort to Keep AI Out of China’s Hands

It comes as no surprise China has been a major focus point of the second Trump administration. One of the key reasons for this focus is the increasing national security concerns over technology. In particular, the smuggling...more

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Unearthing US Vulnerabilities: President Trump Outlines Steps to Strengthen the US Copper Industry

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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

Troutman Pepper Locke

“Tariff Tsunami”: New Copper Tariffs and Changes to De Minimis Duty Exemption

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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

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President Trump Issues Executive Order Imposing a 50% Tariff on Semi-Finished Copper Products and Intensive Copper Derivatives

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On July 30, 2025, President Trump issued a Presidential Proclamation announcing the imposition of a fifty prevent (50%) tariff on “all imports of semi-finished copper products and intensive copper derivative products” as set...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

New Federal AI Action Plan Prioritizes Deregulation, Infrastructure, and Global Leadership

The White House released on July 23, 2025, Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan (“AI Action Plan”) pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order 14179, Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack (Trump EO Tracker)

Directs the Department of Commerce (DOC) to establish the American Artificial Intelligence (AI) Exports Program within 90 days to promote global deployment of U.S.-developed full-stack AI technology packages and reinforce...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan Previews Changes to Export Controls and Enforcement

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On July 23, 2025, the White House unveiled “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” which provides for federal policy actions the Trump Administration intends to take related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). The...more

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U.S. AI Chip Policy: A Post-Recission Forecast

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The global trade of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) chips is currently undergoing significant transformation due to evolving U.S. export control policies and the corresponding responses from international partners. On...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Reciprocal Tariff Update: State of Bilateral Negotiations

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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

Baker Donelson

New Section 232 Investigations Target Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Polysilicon: What Impacted Businesses Need to Know

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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

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President Trump Announces 50% Tariff on Copper: Mining and Upstream Users Experience Record Price Surge

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On July 9, President Trump told a group of reporters that a 50% tariff on all copper imports was imminent....more

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Post-Recission: Forecasting the Trajectory of the New U.S. AI Chip Policy

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The global trade of AI chips is undergoing significant changes due to evolving U.S. export control policies and the reactions of key Southeast Asian nations. Since the announced recission of the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule on...more

Clark Hill PLC

Update on inclusion requests pertaining to Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum

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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

Husch Blackwell LLP

Week Twenty-Four in Trade

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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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

A New Road to Damascus: Trump Administration Lifts US Sanctions on Syria

Pursuant to a sweeping new executive order (EO) issued on June 30, 2025, the Trump administration has lifted virtually all U.S. sanctions targeting Syria, shuttered the Syria sanctions program administered by the Office of...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

From Embargo to Engagement: U.S. Reopens Doors to Syria

After the fall of the former regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the Presidential Administration has taken steps to formally dismantle the U.S.’s two-decade-long comprehensive trade restrictions on Syria. These steps began...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Permanent Injunction – IEEPA Reciprocal Tariffs Will Continue to be Collected During the Pendency of the Appeal

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On June 10, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) stayed the Court of International Trade’s (“CIT”) permanent injunction on the Trump Administration’s executive orders...more

Alston & Bird

President Trump Doubles Steel and Aluminum Tariffs

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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

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Executive Order Seeks to Eliminate Discrepancies in Drug Pricing Between United States and Other Countries

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President Trump’s highly publicized executive order 14297, titled “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients,” targets the discrepancy in drug pricing in the United States compared with...more

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U.S. Launches National Security Investigation Into Aircraft and Jet Engine Imports

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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

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients (Trump EO Tracker)

This order makes it the policy of the United States to have the most-favored-nation price for prescription drugs and biologics. The order directs the Secretary of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative to take...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

President Trump seeks Section 232 Investigation into Imports of Critical Minerals, Rare Earths and Derivative Products

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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

Foley & Lardner LLP

What Every Auto-Sector Company Should Know About … the New Automotive Tariffs

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On April 3, 2025, President Trump issued the full details of the automotive tariffs, including the exact Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) subheadings to which the automotive tariffs apply. This completed the implementation of...more

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