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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Turbulence Ahead: Tariff and Trade Policy Shifts Are Expected Amid Looming Supreme Court Decision

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

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Trump Administration Adopts a Dual-Track Approach to Restore U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing Leadership

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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

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Trump Tariff Tracker – January 19

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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

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President Trump Orders Critical Minerals Trade Negotiations In Section 232 Action

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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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Blank Slate or Bargaining Chip?: Additional Section 301 Tariffs on Chinese Semiconductors Set for June 2027

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

Husch Blackwell LLP

President Trump Announces Section 232 Tariffs on Semiconductors and their Derivative Products

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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

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Trump Tariff Tracker – January 12

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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

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

The Upcoming USMCA/CUSMA/T-MEC Review - The Options are: A Renegotiation, A Few Revisions, or a Formal Exit - Hot Topics in...

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

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Trump Tariff Tracker – December 26

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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

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Port-Entry Fees on Pause: The USTR Suspends Section 301 Fees on China-Linked Vessels

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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

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The U.S. Imposes New Section 301 Tariffs on Chinese Semiconductors

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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

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Trump Tariff Tracker – December 18

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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 LLP

Foley Automotive Update - December 2025 - 3

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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

King & Spalding

USTR Requests Comments For Special 301 Intellectual Property Review

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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

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Industry Stakeholders Discuss State of USMCA at USTR Hearing

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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

Baker Botts L.L.P.

USTR considering a legislative strategy to preserve trade deals?

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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

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - Decembr 2025 - Critical Minerals Focus of White House Trade Agreements in 2025

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

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

CIT Outlines Next Steps for China Section 301 Litigation

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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Trump Tariff Tracker – December 1

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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

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - December 2025 - Taxing Imports: Tracing the Role of Tariffs in U.S. Economic Policy

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

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Key information regarding the antidumping and countervailing duty petitions on Van-Type Trailers and Subassemblies Thereof from...

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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

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Trump Tariff Tracker – November 23

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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

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UPDATED: White House Provides Tariff Relief for Consumer Agricultural Staples

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

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

White House Provides Tariff Relief for Consumer Agricultural Staples

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

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