The “Liberation Day” tariffs are here. In his Executive Order dated April 2, 2025, President Trump cited “underlying conditions, including a lack of reciprocity in our bilateral trade relationships, disparate tariff rates and...more
4/4/2025
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Our prior alert addressed the three Executive Orders issued by President Trump in early February imposing additional tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China. Since then, tariffs have been on again, off again, leaving...more
3/11/2025
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On February 1, 2025, President Trump issued three Executive Orders imposing additional tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China. On February 3, President Trump temporarily reversed course and paused the implementation...more
2/7/2025
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The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) recently published its Solar and Energy Storage Supply Chain Traceability Standard (the “Standard”) and made it available for public comment through November 4, 2024. Comments...more
On July 22, 2024, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) published guidance regarding recent legislation extending the statute of limitations for civil and criminal violations of the International Emergency Economic...more
The US Department of the Treasury (Treasury), which chairs the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee), recently released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to augment certain CFIUS...more
4/23/2024
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As increasingly more employees telework and work remotely outside the office, it is important for organizations to ensure export compliance remains at the forefront. Sometimes, employees may be unaware that U.S. export...more
In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA) has recently raised the stakes, and the potential duty liability risk, for U.S. importers. On February 4, 2020, the ITA...more
3/3/2020
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As demonstrated by a recent Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) enforcement action, some staffing decisions can have costly export control compliance ramifications. DDTC recently published on its...more
The Impact of Proposed New Tariffs on the Outdoor Industry -
BACKGROUND: In 2017, under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, the United States Trade Representative ("USTR") started an investigation into the...more