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On September 15, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a Federal Register notice announcing that new tariff reductions on imports from Japan—including automobiles, auto parts, civil aircraft, and certain other goods—will take effect beginning September 16, 2025. These measures implement the U.S.-Japan trade agreement, which was finalized on July 22, 2025, and formalized by Executive Order 14345 signed on September 4, 2025. Please see our previous post here for more details on the U.S.-Japan deal.

Homeland Security

The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF) recently announced significant updates to the enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). FLETF, led by the Department of Homeland Security, has expanded its efforts to keep goods produced with forced labor—particularly from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region—out of the U.S. market. UFLPA was enacted in…

On July 30, 2025, President Trump issued a Presidential Proclamation announcing the imposition of a fifty percent (50%) tariff on “all imports of semi-finished copper products and intensive copper derivative products” as set forth in the Annex to the Proclamation. The tariff is effective “with respect to goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse…

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President Trump Announces Higher Tariff Rates Effective August 1st

After announcing an extension of the reciprocal tariff rates from July 9, 2025, to August 1,2025, President Trump published letters which were sent to various countries indicating the tariff rate the United States will impose on that country’s imports if the country does not enter…

This blog post covers the most important developments in the trade sphere for the week of March 17-21, 2025.

State Department Determines All Agency Actions on International Trade are “Foreign Affairs Functions” of the U.S. Government

On March 13, 2025, the State Department published a notice in the Federal Register designating all agency action with…

This blog post covers trade developments occurring during the sixth week of the new Trump Administration. It covers events occurring through 12:00 pm Eastern time on Friday, February 28. 

Import-Related Developments

Potential Retaliation for Global Digital Services Taxes

After we published our Week Five in Trade post last week concerning additional sector-specific import tariffs…