China on April 4, 2025, announced a third and significantly escalated round of retaliatory measures in response to the United States' latest tariff action. This follows President Donald Trump's Executive Order (EO) 14257...more
4/9/2025
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President Donald Trump on Feb. 21, 2025, issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) titled "America First Investment Policy," outlining the administration's priorities regarding inbound and outbound...more
2/28/2025
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President Donald Trump issued a memorandum on reciprocal trade and tariffs on Feb. 13, 2025, citing the economic and national security threat posed by the trade deficit, as outlined in the Jan. 20, 2025, America First Trade...more
2/20/2025
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) pausing all future investigations and enforcement actions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for at least 180 days, along with directing the U.S. attorney...more
President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on Feb. 3, 2025, directing the Treasury and Commerce secretaries to submit a comprehensive plan within 90 days for the creation of the United States' first Sovereign...more
President Donald Trump on Feb. 1, 2025, issued three executive orders (Tariff EOs) imposing additional duties on Canada, Mexico and China pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (collectively, IEEPA...more
2/6/2025
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President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, 2025, issued various immigration-related Executive Orders (EOs) and presidential actions that could have an immediate and lasting impact on Latin American countries. President Trump's...more
2/3/2025
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Within hours after taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an omnibus executive order revoking 78 executive actions by the previous administration, dating back to 2021. Among them, President Trump...more
President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, 2025, signed an Executive Order (E.O.), Application of Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications to TikTok, halting the recently issued ban on the TikTok app (Act)...more
1/22/2025
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Final Rule on outbound investment screening went into effect on Jan. 2, 2025. The Final Rule establishes a much-awaited outbound investment screening regime, implementing Executive Order...more
1/13/2025
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President-Elect Donald Trump on Nov. 25, 2024, announced his intention to impose additional 10 percent tariffs on China, as well as additional 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada. He has not yet indicated which authority...more
12/5/2024
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Supply Chain ,
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Trade Retaliation ,
Trade Wars ,
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Undocumented Immigrants ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ,
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USTR
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Investment Security on June 21, 2024, issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Proposed Rule) implementing Executive Order (E.O.) 14105 that was announced on Aug. 9, 2023,...more
6/27/2024
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U.S. Treasury
The Biden Administration issued the long-anticipated Executive Order (E.O.) on Aug. 9, 2023, requiring notification of, and in some cases prohibiting, U.S. investments in companies engaged in the semiconductors and...more
8/14/2023
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Macau ,
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Semiconductors ,
Technology Sector ,
U.S. Treasury
The Biden Administration continues to place pressure on Russia, and on Feb. 24, 2023, marked the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine with additional sanctions, export controls and tariffs. These new policies...more
3/6/2023
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Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
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In recent months, the critical minerals sector has been at the top of government legislative and regulatory agendas and has been subject to substantial media attention. "Critical minerals" is a generic term that refers to a...more
1/6/2023
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Wind Power
Holland & Knight invites you to read our China Practice Newsletter, in which our authors discuss pertinent Sino-American topics. The firm provides legal assistance to Chinese investors and companies doing business or making...more
11/2/2022
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Infrastructure ,
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Stock Options
The U.S. government's efforts to secure sensitive personal data against foreign adversaries, primarily with an eye toward China, continue. On June 9, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on Protecting...more
6/14/2021
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Executive Orders ,
Foreign Adversaries ,
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ,
Mobile Apps ,
National Security ,
Personal Data ,
TikTok ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
WeChat
The U.S. government officially removed Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. from its blacklist, ending the Trump-era ban prohibiting Americans from investing in the company. In their joint filing in the U.S. District Court...more
President Donald Trump issued a new executive order – Executive Order Addressing the Threat Posed By Applications and Other Software Developed or Controlled By Chinese Companies – on Jan. 5, 2021, prohibiting any transaction...more
• President Donald Trump saying at the recent G20 Summit in Japan that American companies could keep selling products to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Huawei) was another installment in the drama surrounding the Chinese tech...more
7/17/2019
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National Security ,
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Trade Wars ,
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• The White House has issued a new Executive Order designed to promote the use of American-made products in all infrastructure projects receiving federal funding, another step in the Trump Administration's Buy American...more
2/7/2019
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Trade Agreements Act ,
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