Customs

Customs IEEPA Refund Portal – CAPE – To Go Live on Monday April 20, 2026Customs Issues Guidance on How to Report Revised Steel, Aluminum, and Copper at Time of EntryCustoms Reports Additional Progress on CAPE System and Further Defines Limitations for Phase 1 of IEEPA Tariff Refunds

Cybersecurity

BIS Issues New Guidance to Combat Russia Diversion Risks and Highlights Recent Enforcement ActionsOFAC Imposes More Russian Cyber Sanctions and Foreshadows Future Oligarch SanctionsOFAC Announces New Sanctions on Iran and Mexico

Energy & Environment

OFAC Sanctions Russian Oil Giants Lukoil and RosneftNew AD/CVD Petition Filed on Imports of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and VietnamCommerce Issues Final Determination on Circumvention of Solar Cells and Modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam

Export Controls & Economic Sanctions

OFAC Issues Guidance on Sham Transactions and Sanctions EvasionOFAC Issues General Licenses Authorizing Certain Activities Involving Venezuelan Oil and U.S.-Origin DiluentsInternational Trade & Supply Chain Law: Download Our 2025 Year in Review & 2026 Outlook

First 100 Days of Trade

CBP Issues Guidance on Technical Corrections to Section 232 Duties for Aluminum, Steel, and Copper ImportsCBP Issues Entry Filing and Reporting Guidance on Section 232 Duties for USMCA‑Qualifying Medium and Heavy‑Duty VehiclesNew Litigation Challenging Legality of Section 122 Duties

Food & Agribusiness

China Announces New Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S. GoodsOFAC Amends Iran Sanctions to Ease Humanitarian TradeU.S. Visit From Cuban Ag Minister Highlights Future Trade Opportunities Under Amended Sanctions

Husch Blackwell News

CBP Further Defines Customs Business in New RulingU.S. Imposes More Sanctions and Export Controls against Russia and BelarusRetaliatory Actions Against Trump's Tariffs: What Businesses Should Do When Allies Hit Back

Intellectual Property

Beau Jackson Joins World Trade Center – Kansas City for Webinar on Intellectual Property Enforcement and Trade RemediesInternational Trade Law: 2022 Year in Review & Outlook for 2023May Trade Law Update: Court Decisions

International Trade & Supply Chain

IEEPA Tariffs: What Importers Need to Know About Refunds and the Emerging Wave of Consumer Class ActionsSupreme Court Holds That State-Law Negligent Hiring Claims Against Transportation Brokers Are Not Preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization ActPetition Summary: SN-Cyclohexylbenzothiazole-2-Sulfenamide (CBS) from The People's Republic of China

International Trade Remedies

The Court of International Trade Rules Section 122 Tariffs Unlawful But Limits Relief to Exclusive ImportersCBP Issues Guidance on Technical Corrections to Section 232 Duties for Aluminum, Steel, and Copper ImportsCBP Issues Entry Filing and Reporting Guidance on Section 232 Duties for USMCA‑Qualifying Medium and Heavy‑Duty Vehicles

Legislative & Judicial Updates

IEEPA Tariffs: What Importers Need to Know About Refunds and the Emerging Wave of Consumer Class ActionsLegislation Introduced to Curtail Non-Resident Importers Ability to Import Goods Into U.S.Congress Restores AGOA and Haiti HELP Trade Preferences

Manufacturing

International Trade & Supply Chain Law: Download Our 2025 Year in Review & 2026 OutlookPetition Summary: Certain Freight Rail Couplers and Parts Thereof from the Czech Republic and the Republic of IndiaOFAC Issues Guidance Extending Statute of Limitations to 10 Years

Russia Sanctions

Podcast: The Latest on Russia SanctionsInternational Trade Law: 2022 Year in Review & Outlook for 2023BIS Adds 24 New Entities and Removes One from Entity List and Extends Deadline for Comments to New Semiconductor Rules

Section 337

Section 301 Exclusion UpdateInternational Trade Law: 2022 Year in Review & Outlook for 2023Download Report | International Trade Law: 2021 Year in Review & Outlook for 2022

Tariffs & Trade

IEEPA Tariffs: What Importers Need to Know About Refunds and the Emerging Wave of Consumer Class ActionsThe Court of International Trade Rules Section 122 Tariffs Unlawful But Limits Relief to Exclusive ImportersCBP Issues Guidance on Technical Corrections to Section 232 Duties for Aluminum, Steel, and Copper Imports

Technology

Federal Judge Issues Order on Use of Artificial Intelligence and Implications for Inadvertent Release of Proprietary InformationPresident Announces Actions against China for Intellectual Property PracticesSenate Passes Potential Russian Sanctions Bill

Trade Newsletter

April 2026 Trade Law UpdateMarch 2026 Trade Law UpdateFebruary 2026 Trade Law Update

Transportation & Supply Chain

IEEPA Tariffs: What Importers Need to Know About Refunds and the Emerging Wave of Consumer Class ActionsSupreme Court Holds That State-Law Negligent Hiring Claims Against Transportation Brokers Are Not Preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization ActCommerce Issues Rules for Certain Steel and Aluminum Producers to Obtain Tariff Adjustments if Used for Auto and MHDV Production

Uncategorized

Commerce Adds Over 400 New HTS Codes to the Section 232 Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Effective August 18Customs Clarifies That “In Transit” Exemption Only Applies to Ocean VesselsPetition Summary: Lattice-Boom Crawler Cranes, whether or not assembled, from Japan