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From the perspective of tariffs and trade policy, 2025 was a year that many companies would prefer to put in the rearview mirror. There was an explosion of tariffs, from those imposed by President Donald Trump under the...more
Key Takeaways: President Trump moved to restore U.S. semiconductor manufacturing leadership through a dual-track Section 232 strategy, imposing an immediate 25% ad valorem duty on a narrow set of advanced semiconductors...more
While we await the Supreme Court’s decision in the IEEPA tariff cases, the Trump Administration continues to charge forward with new tariffs to address issues of national security and foreign policy....more
On January 14, 2026, President Trump issued a Presidential Proclamation implementing Section 232 measures to address national security risks associated with imports of processed critical minerals and their derivative products...more
On December 23, 2025, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced new tariffs on Chinese semiconductors under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. Notably, the USTR set the initial rate of these tariffs at 0%. This will...more
On January 14, 2025, President Trump signed a proclamation entitled “Adjusting Imports of Semiconductors, Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment, and Their Derivative Products into the United States.” The proclamation imposes...more
With the start of the new year, we anxiously await the Supreme Court’s decision in the IEEPA tariff cases. The Court issued its first opinion of the term last Friday, but it was not the highly anticipated IEEPA tariff...more
The exit of a country, such as the U.S., from the USMCA, well, that’s just crazy, right? Afterall, it’s a powerhouse of a trade agreement between the three nations. According to the U.S. International Trade Administration,...more
The U.S. Trade Representative ("USTR") concluded its investigation under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which was launched during the Biden Administration, regarding China's targeting of the semiconductor industry for...more
On November 9, 2025, following the White House announcement on November 1, 2025, of a broad agreement on trade between the United States and the People’s Republic China, the United States Trade Representative (the “USTR”)...more
On December 23, 2025, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) determined that China’s policies and practices aimed at dominating the semiconductor industry are unfair and burdensome on U.S. commerce, making them...more
On December 16 and 17, in accordance with the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Implementation Act, U.S. Trade Representative Greer provided his report to the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee on...more
Foley & Lardner’s 2025 Auto Trends Series, Driving the Future: Innovations, Regulations, and Strategies, delivers actionable insights on critical topics, including regulatory changes, resilient supply chains, global...more
The United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) has invited public comment and scheduled a hearing to inform its annual Special 301 review “to identify countries that deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual...more
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on Dec. 3-5, 2025, held a hearing on the six-year review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that attracted a broad range of panelists representing...more
Interesting to see USTR pivoting – or at least considering pivoting – towards a legislative strategy to ensure the durability of the trade deals it has negotiated this year....more
The Trump Administration is pursuing a new style of trade management based on use of tariffs to rectify trade deficits and to set new “reciprocal” tariff rates to level the playing field for all of its trading partners. ...more
As previously reported, on September 25, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the U.S. Court of International Trade’s (CIT) decision upholding the Section 301 China tariffs imposed during President...more
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The U.S. government has announced that the tariff rate on imports from South Korea will drop to 15%, retroactive to November 1. Commerce Secretary Lutnick announced in a statement posted yesterday that the tariffs on a range...more
In the Chinese zodiac calendar, 2025 is the year of the snake. The snake is said to represent wisdom and strategy. As it occasionally sheds its skin, it is also said to represent a change or an inflection point. Whether...more
On November 20, 2025, the American Trailer Manufacturers Coalition ("Petitioner") filed antidumping duty ("ADD") and countervailing duty ("CVD") petitions on imports of van-type trailers and subassemblies thereof ("VTTS")...more
The reciprocal, country based tariffs, which the Trump Administration imposed as a blunt tool of trade policy, are becoming more nuanced in their application as the U.S. looks to add additional products to the list of imports...more
Update: On November 20, President Trump issued an additional EO exempting coffee and certain other agricultural imports from a separate 40% tariff on imports from Brazil. Together these two actions reduce IEEPA-based tariffs...more
On Nov. 14, President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) to exempt certain agricultural products from reciprocal tariffs, effective immediately. The new EO modifies “Annex II,” first issued alongside the April...more