On April 24, 2025, Ferroglobe USA Inc. and Mississippi Silicon Inc., domestic producers of silicon metal, filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking...more
On February 26, 2025, domestic producers filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking antidumping (AD) duties on imports of certain chassis and...more
On February 1, 2025, President Trump signed three executive orders imposing additional tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in response to emergencies...more
On July 28, 2023, a coalition of domestic producers and wholesalers of mattresses filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking the imposition of...more
Key Points -
On May 9, 2023, Commerce issued proposed regulations that would expand the agency’s authority to enforce trade remedy laws in several substantive and procedural respects.
Interested parties have until...more
Yesterday, in the unprecedented “In re Section 301 Cases” litigation, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) entered a preliminary injunction that suspends the liquidation of plaintiffs’ unliquidated entries from China...more
Last week, in a highly anticipated decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) concluded that Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 does not offend the non-delegation doctrine. To...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
2/10/2020
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Customs and Border Protection ,
Exclusions ,
Imports ,
National Security ,
Presidential Proclamations ,
Section 232 ,
Steel Industry ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Expansion Act of 1962 ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US Trade Policies
In just one opinion, the landscape surrounding national security tariffs has undergone a dramatic shift. In Transpacific Steel LLC v. United States, an otherwise narrow dispute regarding steel imports from Turkey subject to...more
12/6/2019
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Court of International Trade ,
Equal Protection ,
Fifth Amendment ,
Imports ,
National Security ,
Non-Delegation Doctrine ,
Section 232 ,
Separation of Powers ,
Steel Industry ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Expansion Act of 1962 ,
Trump Administration
In just one opinion, the landscape surrounding national security tariffs has undergone a dramatic shift. In Transpacific Steel LLC v. United States, an otherwise narrow dispute regarding steel imports from Turkey subject to...more
11/19/2019
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Court of International Trade ,
Equal Protection ,
Fifth Amendment ,
Imports ,
National Security ,
Non-Delegation Doctrine ,
Section 232 ,
Separation of Powers ,
Steel Industry ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Expansion Act of 1962 ,
Trump Administration
In late March, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued a highly anticipated opinion addressing Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Section 232 authorizes the President to take measures against imports...more
4/17/2019
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Court of International Trade ,
Imports ,
National Security ,
Non-Delegation Doctrine ,
Section 232 ,
Separation of Powers ,
Steel Industry ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Expansion Act of 1962 ,
Trump Administration
• USTR has proposed to impose additional duties of up to 100 percent ad valorem on $21 billion of imports from EU member states as a result of a dispute concerning aircraft subsidies.
• The proposed duties would apply to...more
4/12/2019
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Comment Period ,
Duties ,
EU ,
Government Investigations ,
Importers ,
Imports ,
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Public Comment ,
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Section 301 ,
Tariff Classifications ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Act of 1974 ,
Trade Relations ,
USTR