On March 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) issued a final rule designed to “improve, strengthen and enhance” its antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) regulations. The final rule largely adopts...more
On March 7, 2024, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced a Request for Comments on Promoting Supply Chain Resilience, seeking public comment on policy initiatives that promote supply chain...more
WHAT: On January 11, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) published its National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS). In line with DOD’s continued emphasis on modernizing and strengthening the supply chain and...more
On May 8, 2023, federal agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assisted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in executing a search warrant at JinkoSolar’s solar panel manufacturing plant in Jacksonville,...more
5/11/2023
/ Anti-Dumping Duty ,
China ,
Countervailing Duties ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
FBI ,
Forced Labor ,
Popular ,
Search Warrant ,
Solar Panels ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariffs ,
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)
On February 24, 2023, the Biden Administration, in coordination with leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), announced a new round of economic measures primarily targeting the Russian Federation on the one-year mark of Russia’s...more
3/2/2023
/ Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Entity List ,
Export Administration Regulations (EAR) ,
Export Controls ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Russia ,
SDN List ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariffs ,
Ukraine
On February 28, 2023, the Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the first round of manufacturing incentives related to the CHIPS and Science Act. Passed by Congress in August 2022, the CHIPS Act provides $39 billion in...more
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law an omnibus government spending package, which includes explanatory statements regarding outbound investment initiatives. According to media reports and official statements...more
On December 15, 2022, Congress passed the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 (NDAA or Act), which President Biden is expected to sign into law soon. The NDAA contains numerous...more
On December 15, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced that it is adding 36 primarily Chinese entities, including Chinese memory chip maker Yangtze Memory Technologies and...more
WHAT: Congress is advancing the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY 2023). With provisions similar to Section 889 of the FY 2019 NDAA, Section 5949 of the FY 2023 NDAA...more
On September 15, 2022, President Biden signed an executive order (EO) that reaffirms longstanding U.S. open investment policy and elaborates and expands on the existing list of statutory factors that the Committee on Foreign...more
9/20/2022
/ CFIUS ,
Covered Transactions ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Threats ,
Executive Orders ,
Foreign Investment ,
Foreign Nationals ,
Manufacturers ,
National Security ,
Sensitive Business Information ,
Supply Chain ,
Technology
On September 14, 2022, the European Commission (EC) issued a proposal that would ban products made with forced labor across EU markets. The proposed ban would apply both to imports and exports and includes plans for removing...more
9/16/2022
/ China ,
Enforcement ,
European Commission ,
European Parliament ,
Export Bans ,
Exports ,
Forced Labor ,
Imports ,
Investigations ,
Member State ,
Supply Chain ,
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) ,
WTO
Please join us for an examination of several current and material trade, sanction, and competition matters between the United States and China. Topics to be discussed include:
- The Phase 1 Agreement (important...more
9/7/2022
/ China ,
Clean Energy ,
Competition ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Forced Labor ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Manufacturers ,
Semiconductors ,
Supply Chain ,
Taiwan ,
Trade Agreements ,
Trade Relations ,
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) ,
Webinars
Beijing has long claimed the country of Taiwan – one of the largest economies in Asia, and a key part of the world’s supply chains – as part of China. Chinese military drills following Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s early August trip...more
On June 17, 2022, the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF) released its enforcement strategy for the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), which goes into effect today, June 21, 2022. The strategy provides...more
On June 13, 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released highly anticipated guidance regarding the forthcoming implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), which will go into effect on June 21,...more
On June 6, 2022, the White House declared a national emergency and took the unprecedented step of providing duty-free treatment of solar cells and modules from Southeast Asia for two years, delaying potential tariffs on...more
6/14/2022
/ Anti-Dumping Duty ,
China ,
Countervailing Duties ,
Defense Production Act ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Duty Free ,
Imports ,
Joe Biden ,
Section 303 ,
Solar Panels ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariffs ,
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)
On May 2, 2022, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced $3.16 billion in funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to make more batteries and battery components in the United States and to bolster domestic...more
On February 24, 2022, seven cabinet agencies published reports in response to President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) 14017 with assessments of and recommendations for strengthening certain critical U.S. supply chains....more
3/2/2022
/ Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Transportation (DOT) ,
Economic Development ,
Electronic Communications ,
Energy Storage ,
Executive Orders ,
FOCI ,
Food Supply ,
Internet ,
Joe Biden ,
Personal Protective Equipment ,
Popular ,
Software ,
Supply Chain ,
Technology ,
USDA
On January 24, 2022, the federal Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (Task Force) published its notice of an opportunity to comment on the development of the U.S. Government’s strategy to enforce the Uyghur Forced Labor...more
Join us in a webinar discussion on the implications of the new federal law, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The Act is broad and has the potential to impact a wide range of industries with supply chain links to the...more
1/6/2022
/ China ,
Customs ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Forced Labor ,
Manufacturer Liability ,
Manufacturers ,
New Legislation ,
Sanctions ,
Supply Chain ,
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) ,
Webinars
After more than a year of debate in the U.S. Congress as to the scope and enforceability, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA or Act) passed Congress with strong bipartisan support. President Biden has publicly...more
12/28/2021
/ China ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Forced Labor ,
Goods or Services ,
Imports ,
Joe Biden ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Popular ,
PRC ,
Rebuttable Presumptions ,
SDN List ,
Secretary of Commerce ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariff Act of 1930 ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ,
US Department of State
It is hard to believe 2021 is in the back stretch. At the beginning of the year, we made predictions of what might come from the change in Administration in 2021. In this article, we take a look at what has happened in 2021...more
On September 20, 2021, the U.S. Department of Commerce's (DOC) Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a Notice of Request for Public Comments (RFC) on Risks in the Information Communications Technology (ICT) Supply...more
WHAT: On August 26, 2021, the Federal Acquisition Security Council (FASC) issued its final rule to implement the 2018 Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act. See 86 Fed. Reg. 47582 (Aug. 26, 2021). The FASC made minor...more