Customs

A Billion-Dollar Warning for Importers and Supply Chain CompaniesCBP Issues Guidance on Section 232 Copper Smelt and Cast Reporting RequirementsNew CPSC eFiling Requirement Signals Major Change for Consumer Product Imports

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

Husch Blackwell Secures Summary Judgment Ruling Which Reinforces Transportation Brokers’ General Lack of Standing to Sue Under the Carmack AmendmentCBP Further Defines Customs Business in New RulingU.S. Imposes More Sanctions and Export Controls against Russia and Belarus

Intellectual Property

USTR Initiates Section 301 Investigation on Vietnam’s Intellectual Property PracticesBeau Jackson Joins World Trade Center – Kansas City for Webinar on Intellectual Property Enforcement and Trade RemediesInternational Trade Law: 2022 Year in Review & Outlook for 2023

International Trade & Supply Chain

USTR Imposes New Section 301 Tariffs Targeting Forced Labor Concerns Across 60 EconomiesA Billion-Dollar Warning for Importers and Supply Chain CompaniesNew Section 232 Proclamation Creates Onshoring Incentives for U.S. Primary Aluminum Production

International Trade Remedies

USTR Imposes New Section 301 Tariffs Targeting Forced Labor Concerns Across 60 EconomiesCBP Issues New Forced Labor Enforcement Operational Guidance for ImportersUSTR Opens Comment Period on Proposed U.S.-China “Board of Trade”

Legislative & Judicial Updates

Senate Confirms Five New USITC Commissioners, Restoring Full BenchChief Engineer Admits to Criminal Violation in Relation to the Francis Scott Key Bridge CasualtyFederal Circuit Stays Section 122 Tariff Injunction, Signaling Skepticism of CIT’s Narrow Statutory Reading

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

USTR Imposes New Section 301 Tariffs Targeting Forced Labor Concerns Across 60 EconomiesA Billion-Dollar Warning for Importers and Supply Chain CompaniesNew Section 232 Proclamation Creates Onshoring Incentives for U.S. Primary Aluminum Production

Technology

USTR Initiates Section 301 Investigation on Vietnam’s Intellectual Property PracticesFederal Judge Issues Order on Use of Artificial Intelligence and Implications for Inadvertent Release of Proprietary InformationPresident Announces Actions against China for Intellectual Property Practices

Trade Newsletter

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Transportation & Supply Chain

Chief Engineer Admits to Criminal Violation in Relation to the Francis Scott Key Bridge CasualtyHusch Blackwell Secures Summary Judgment Ruling Which Reinforces Transportation Brokers’ General Lack of Standing to Sue Under the Carmack AmendmentWhat Supreme Court’s Recent Ruling On Last-Mile Driver Arbitration Means for Inter-State Logistics

Uncategorized

June 2026 Trade Law UpdatePetition Summary: Glyphosate from the People's Republic of ChinaImports of Taiwanese Aircraft Components Auto Parts and Wood Products Provided Relief from Section 232 Tariffs Under Taiwan Deal