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On April 2, 2025, after weeks of speculation and heightened geopolitical tension, President Trump announced sweeping global tariffs on what he dubbed “Liberation Day”. The tariffs included a baseline universal tariff of 10%...more
On March 3, 2025, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released the 2025 Trade Policy Agenda and 2024 Annual Report by the United States Trade Representative of the President of the United States on the...more
COMPETITION - Commission approves Safran's acquisition of part of Collins Aerospace's actuation business, subject to conditions (M.11253)... Commission clears acquisition of Bridewell by Oakley Capital and Eurazeo...more
COMPETITION - Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11929 - MET / Mega)... Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11828 - BNPP / Axa IM)...more
On March 4, 2025, China announced it would impose additional tariffs on certain US agricultural imports from March 10, 2025, in retaliation to President Trump's March 3 executive order issued under the International Emergency...more
COMPETITION A refusal by an undertaking in a dominant position to ensure that its platform is interoperable with an app of another undertaking, which thereby becomes more attractive, can be abusive (See CPR Nº 19/2025 -...more
On February 4, 2025, China announced it would impose additional tariffs on certain US imports from February 10, 2025 in retaliation to President Trump's executive order issued under the International Emergency Economic Powers...more
On February 1, 2025, President Trump invoked his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose additional 25% tariffs on products imported from Mexico and Canada and additional 10% tariffs on...more
Summary - On February 1, President Trump signed executive orders imposing additional tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in response to an emergency declared at...more
Few areas will be as impacted by the incoming second Trump administration as international trade policy. Check out our team’s assessment of what the coming year may bring for trade regulation and enforcement. Husch...more
Geopolitics have always impacted supply chain logistics, but over the last two years they have played an outsized role that will likely continue for the foreseeable future. While the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the risks...more
On April 8, 2022, President Biden signed two trade-related bills: one revoking normal tariff treatment for Russia and Belarus, and the other banning Russian energy imports. Following the April recess, Congress may take...more
Co-authored by the Global Sanctions Team On April 7, 2022, the US Congress approved two bills aimed at curtailing trade with Russia and Belarus in response to the situation in Ukraine: President Biden signed both bills into...more
As reported in BakerHosteler’s Alert of March 14, 2022, last month President Biden announced that the United States intended to revoke Russia’s most-favored nation (MFN) trade status (also known as Permanent Normal Trade...more
In the latest action to expand sanctions against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine, on March 8, 2022, President Biden announced in a televised speech a ban on imports of Russian oil, natural gas, and coal into the...more
In this WorldSmart podcast, International Trade & Investment Practice Leader Kay Georgi discusses the current and future issues of export controls and economic sanctions, with International Group Co-Chairs Hunter Carter and...more
Please join us for a virtual discussion on the results of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election and the trade policies that are in store for the next four years, including the new administration's priorities and the impacts of...more
Federal authorities have been looking into Under Armour’s accounting practices for the better part of the past two years, a revelation that sent company shares reeling in premarket trading this morning....more
Shared office-space company WeWork, which had committed to moving forward with its planned IPO this week despite recent turmoil, appears likely to postpone the offering until at least October in an effort to shore up its...more
On 5 April 2019, a decision of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Panel in “Russia – Measures Concerning Traffic in Transit” (WT/DS512/R) (the Report) was published. The decision related to restrictions imposed by Russia on...more
In this episode, Akin Gump public law and policy senior advisor and former U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and international trade partner Nnedi Ifudu discuss U.S. sanctions on Venezuela. Among the topics covered: • the...more
Ambassador Lighthizer Testifies Before House Ways and Means Committee On Trade Relationship between United States and China - On February 27, 2019, United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) Robert Lighthizer testified...more
On January 28, 2019, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PdVSA) on the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List). PdVSA...more
Venezuela recently initiated a World Trade Organization (“WTO”) complaint against U.S. sanctions, claiming that the United States has “imposed certain coercive trade-restrictive measures on the Bolivarian Republic of...more
Presidential Actions- President Trump Terminates Trade Preference Program Eligibility for Mauritania- On November 2, 2018, President Trump announced his intent to terminate Mauritania’s eligibility for trade preference...more