On May 22, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) issued a Federal Register notice that provides additional information on the new or increased tariffs on select Chinese-origin products that USTR previously...more
5/23/2024
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On May 14, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) announced that it is proposing to add or increase tariffs on select Chinese-origin products in “strategic sectors,” pursuant to Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974....more
On May 16, the Regulation establishing an EU Carbon Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) was published in the Official Journal of the EU and entered into force the following day. Under the CBAM, importers into the EU of...more
On October 17, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) published a notice requesting public comments on Section 301 tariffs on products from China. This request is part of USTR’s statutory four-year review of the...more
On June 21, 2022, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) came into force after being signed into law on December 23, 2021, by President Biden. The legislation reflects the US government’s commitment to combating...more
7/7/2022
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On May 5, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) published a Federal Register notice initiating a statutorily-mandated “four-year review” of the Section 301 tariffs that USTR has imposed on a wide range of...more
Yesterday, the US Department of Homeland Security, on behalf of the interagency Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (Task Force), published a Notice in the Federal Register that seeks public comment on the implementation of...more
On November 19, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) announced that it would terminate the actions it had taken under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to digital services taxes (DSTs) adopted by...more
11/24/2021
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Yesterday the US Department of Commerce (Commerce) published the most comprehensive revisions to its regulations for enforcing trade remedy laws since the 1990s - the completion of a rulemaking process that started under the...more