In just under two months since President Donald J. Trump assumed office, multiple tariff measures have been implemented, with additional measures under consideration. These tariffs aim to regulate imports into the U.S. for...more
3/7/2025
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On Feb. 25, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the secretary of commerce to investigate the effects of copper imports on national security under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The...more
In March 2018, President Donald J. Trump invoked Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1862), to impose duties on imports of steel (25 percent ad valorem) and aluminum (10 percent ad valorem)...more
2/14/2025
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On Feb. 1, President Donald Trump signed executive orders imposing duties on imports: 25 percent on products from Canada (10 percent on energy products), 25 percent on products from Mexico and 10 percent on products from...more
2/4/2025
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On May 14, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) proposed increased Section 301 tariffs on electric vehicles, batteries, battery parts, steel and aluminum products, semiconductors, and several other products that...more
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..The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service are accepting public comments on the implementation of electric vehicle (EV) tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022...more
As reported in BakerHostetler’s alert of April 11, 2022, President Biden recently signed into law a bill revoking Russia’s most-favored nation, or MFN, trade status. The new law imposed non-MFN tariffs on Russia (and Belarus)...more
As reported in BakerHosteler’s Alert of March 14, 2022, last month President Biden announced that the United States intended to revoke Russia’s most-favored nation (MFN) trade status (also known as Permanent Normal Trade...more
On March 11, 2022, President Biden and the G7 (a group of countries that includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States) jointly announced their intention to take steps to revoke...more
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), at the request of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, is preparing a report under Section 332(g) of the Tariff Act on the impacts of foreign censorship on U.S. businesses. As part...more