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Department of Energy Issues Policy Memo on Clean Energy Grant Spending Reviews

In March 2025, the Department of Energy was rumored to be reviewing projects, which were awarded billions of dollars under the Biden Administration. This review reportedly targeted any program or project that had spent less...more

Trade Update: Navigating Trump Administration Tariffs - May 2025 Developments

Since the April 9, 2025 pause on the application of the Trump administration’s “reciprocal” tariffs, which we included in our most recent update, several additional developments have occurred which materially impact the...more

DoD Workforce Transformation and Strategic Implications for Defense Contractors

The Department of Defense has initiated a far-reaching transformation of its civilian workforce through the Workforce Acceleration and Recapitalization Initiative, formalized in the Deputy Secretary of Defense memorandum...more

Trade Update: Navigating Trump Administration Tariffs - Reciprocal Tariffs and Further Developments

Since early 2025, the Trump administration has imposed a series of broad sector- and country-specific tariffs. These measures were significantly expanded on April 2, 2025, with the announcement of a global tariff regime...more

Trade Update: Navigating Trump Administration Tariffs - March 2025 #2

The Trump Administration has implemented broad and sweeping sector - and country-based tariffs since the beginning of 2025, with an additional global tariff regime anticipated to be announced on April 2, 2025....more

Potential Rollback of Biden's Climate Policies Targets Billions in Clean Energy Projects

According to media reports, Energy Department officials are compiling a list of clean energy projects, awarded billions of dollars, that could be overturned by the Trump administration in what may become the most significant...more

Trade Update: Navigating Trump Administration Tariffs

On March 4, 2025, the Trump Administration commenced new broad and sweeping tariffs on products of Canada and Mexico, while doubling tariffs on China previously imposed in early February of this year....more

Expansion of Restrictions on Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Estate

On July 8, 2024, the Office of Investment Security (Department of the Treasury) published a proposed rule to expand CFIUS’s current restrictions on foreign investment in U.S. real estate to cover many additional government...more

Federal Trade Commission Strikes Against “Crafted in America” Language

As previously reported by Home Textiles Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a “record civil penalty” of $3.175 million against a retailer who failed to tell the truth about whether the products it sells...more

U.S. Commerce Department Incentivizes Disclosures of Export Control Violations

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) continues to send a strong and clear message to the exporting community – it wants businesses and universities to voluntarily disclose any significant...more

Examining the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and Department of Homeland Security Enforcement

Key Highlights - ..Review the UFLPA Strategy and CBP Operational Guidance for Importers; ..Conduct supply chain due diligence and instate reliable measures to prevent the use of forced labor; ..and Maintain recommended...more

Public Hearing Provides Insight into Possible Enforcement of Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) was signed into law by President Biden on December 23, 2021. The UFLPA creates a rebuttable presumption that “any goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or...more

Legal Guide to Starting a Business in the United States

Starting a business in the United States can open doors for massive opportunity and success. Along the way, however, businesses will encounter a number of legal and regulatory hurdles. This “Guide to Starting Business in...more

Key Developments in US Sanctions

Global supply chains have been greatly disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, sending companies scrambling to find both new sources of supplies and new customers for their products. But even as businesses struggle to find their...more

Successfully Navigating Export Controls in a Fast Changing Regulatory and Political Environment

I recently moderated a panel of legal experts on complying with multijurisdictional export and trade controls who provided an overview of the domestic and international regulatory environment to an audience of corporate...more

Commerce Department Blacklists Additional Huawei Affiliates but Grants More Time to U.S. Businesses to Disengage from Huawei,...

On August 19, 2019, the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) announced that it has added 46 additional Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (However, although these restrictions make it harder for U.S....more

The Section 301 and Section 232 Trade Actions: Managing the Impact of New Trade Restrictions

The first half of 2018 has seen the United States place sweeping import tariffs on steel and aluminum products, and on thousands of Chinese products. In response, China, the European Union, Canada and other countries have...more

Stage is set as Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to meet President Donald Trump: What can we expect?

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has secured the coveted first meeting between President Trump and a foreign head of government. Among the goals of each leader in this meeting will be setting a course for a future UK-US trade...more

The Partial Lifting of Iranian Sanctions – Not Quite Business As Usual

Implementation Day under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed by the P5+1 (United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany), the European Union, and Iran (“JCPOA”) came on January 16, 2016 and...more

Escrowed Payments May Leave Federal Subcontractors High and Dry

Companies providing products or services as subcontractors to prime federal contractors often struggle with how best to ensure prompt and full payments from primes. Prime contractors, particularly small business concerns,...more

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