The week of June 12, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released two important guidance documents to prepare the public for the implementation of the Uyghur Forced...more
In a highly anticipated development, on May 3, 2022, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced the initiation of a statutory process whereby USTR is expected to conduct a reassessment of the existing Section 301...more
On January 25, 2022, Democratic leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled long-awaited legislation, the America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology, and Economic Strength...more
On January 4, 2022, a three-member dispute panel — established per the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) — announced a significant decision in the ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada, finding that...more
On October 4, 2021, United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai unveiled the contours of the Biden administration’s long-awaited trade policy with respect to China. As hoped for among many in the U.S. business...more
As the litigation in the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) challenging the validity of the Section 301 List 3 and List 4A duties marches forward (In Re Section 301 Cases, 1:21-cv-00052), affected importers are...more
Viewed by many as a crucial step in the Biden administration’s effort to “rebuild” the trade relationship with traditional U.S. allies in Europe, on March 4, 2021, the United States and the United Kingdom announced a...more
In the latest phase of the 16-year trans-Atlantic dispute over government subsidies to The Boeing Company and Airbus SE, on October 26, 2020, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) authorized the...more
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) published in the Federal Register on October 8, 2020 the initiation of two investigations into Vietnam’s acts, policies and practices related to currency valuation, and the...more
You may have asked yourself, “can I still file a court challenge against the Section 301 List 3 tariffs?” after learning that over 3,500 importers filed cases at the Court of International Trade (CIT) challenging the...more
As we discussed in a September 15 client alert, a lawsuit was filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) on September 10, 2020, challenging the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) authority to assess Section 301...more
On September 10, 2020, three importers filed a complaint at the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT), HMTX Industries LLC et al. v. United States, which challenges the procedural steps and authority of the U.S. Trade...more
On July 1, 2020, the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) entered into force, replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The change to USMCA was accompanied by the publication on June 30, 2020, of the...more
In response to an ongoing trade dispute between the United States and the European Union (EU), the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) is considering adding additional products to the existing list of EU imported...more
The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has initiated a Section 301 investigation into Digital Services Taxes (DSTs) proposed or enacted by the European Union (consisting of 27 member states), Austria, Brazil, the Czech...more
On May 27, 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that he has certified to Congress that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region no longer enjoys a high degree of autonomy from China. According to the legislative...more
On April 24, 2020, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) sent written notice to the Mexican and Canadian governments that the United States has completed the requisite internal procedures under the...more
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued Interim Implementing Instructions for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on April 20, 2020. The Interim Instructions, which CBP explains should be considered a...more
WLG's International Trade Law Group invites you to join us for a webinar: "US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement: Update, Key Priorities, and Implementation in a Post-Pandemic World."
Our panelists from around the globe will...more
On March 31, 2020, the Mexican Secretary of Health published an Order in the Diario Oficial de la Federación (DOF) (the Order) listing certain extraordinary actions the Mexican government will be enforcing to implement the...more
Leading Senate Finance Committee Republicans laid out a list of trade actions on March 25 that they believe the Trump administration should consider to help to ease the economic downturn tied to the coronavirus pandemic....more
The United States has reached an agreement with China that will reduce the tariff rate to 7.5 percent for approximately $120 billion of Chinese goods (a reference to merchandise on List 4A) currently subject to Section 301...more
President Trump, on December 2, 2019, announced via a Twitter post that the tariff exemptions granted to Argentina and Brazil from tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum imports would end “effective...more
12/3/2019
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The Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) has announced that it will accept public comments on the proposed renewal of certain product exclusions granted for the $34 billion in Chinese imports covered...more
10/30/2019
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On October 21, 2019, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced the commencement of the process for submitting tariff exclusion requests for imports from China that became subject to 15 percent...more
10/23/2019
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