Key Points - Last Tuesday, USTR announced the results of its Section 301 “necessity review.” Today, USTR followed up with a Federal Register notice providing details on the further proposed modifications to the Section 301...more
On December 1, 2023, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations (REG-118492-23) with additional guidance on the excluded entities provision in the section 30D clean...more
12/7/2023
/ Clean Energy ,
Compliance ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Electric Vehicles ,
Foreign Entities ,
IRS ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Planning ,
U.S. Treasury
Key Points -
On February 24, the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden announced, via Presidential Proclamation 10522, an additional 200% ad valorem tariff on Russian origin aluminum...more
On November 1, USTR released a comment form prescribing the submission format for public comments in the “necessity review” process for the Section 301 China tariffs. USTR first announced the public comment phase of the...more
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On January 1, 2022, Mexico eliminated its General Customs Administration (AGA, by its initials in Spanish), which had operated under the authority of Mexico’s central Tax Administration Service. In its place,...more
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On June 21, 2022, CBP began enforcing the UFLPA’s revisions to section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930—19 U.SC. § 1307—by applying a rebuttable presumption that the following goods are prohibited from...more
Key Points -
The United States and its allies are banning imports or increasing tariffs on Russia’s top products—crude oil, petroleum, petroleum fuels, oils, liquefied natural gas, coal, fish, seafood, alcohol,...more
Key Points -
On December 23, 2021, President Biden signed the UFLPA into law after it unanimously passed both chambers of Congress. The UFLPA aims to strengthen the forced labor statute by prohibiting the importation and...more
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The Department of Commerce initiated a Section 232 national security investigation into NdFeB permanent magnets, which are used in fighter aircraft, missile guidance systems, electric vehicles, wind...more
Yesterday, in the unprecedented “In re Section 301 Cases” litigation, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) entered a preliminary injunction that suspends the liquidation of plaintiffs’ unliquidated entries from China...more
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CBP recently ruled that the Jones Act applies to the transportation of merchandise from a U.S. port to locations on the OCS used for developing and producing wind energy, following Congressional amendments to...more
Key Points
- On December 14, 2020, Commerce promulgated a fourth interim final rule to revise certain aspects of the Section 232 steel and aluminum exclusions process.
- One notable change is the creation of GAEs,...more
CBP has issued a “region-wide” WRO on cotton and tomato products “grown or produced” by entities “operating in” the XUAR. In a press release, CBP states that the order covers “apparel, textiles, tomato seeds, canned tomatoes,...more
- In Presidential Proclamation 10060, announced on August 6, 2020, President Trump reinstated a 10 percent ad valorem tariff on imports of non-alloyed unwrought aluminum from Canada under the Section 232 of the Trade...more
8/17/2020
/ Aluminum Sales ,
Canada ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Imports ,
Presidential Proclamations ,
Section 232 ,
Steel Industry ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Expansion Act of 1962 ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US Trade Policies
- On August 10, 2020, FEMA extended the duration of its restrictions on the export of certain shipments of PPE through December 31, 2020.
- The August 10 notice narrowed the types of PPE covered by the restrictions to...more
- On July 1, the Departments of Commerce, Homeland Security, State, and the Treasury issued a joint advisory on the “Risks and Considerations for Businesses with Supply Chain Exposure to Entities Engaged in Forced Labor and...more
7/10/2020
/ China ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Exports ,
Federal Contractors ,
Financial Institutions ,
Forced Labor ,
Human Rights ,
Imports ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Supply Chain
ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS -
New Guilty Plea in College Admissions Scandal -
On April 21, 2020, Jorge Salcedo, a former tennis coach at a prominent California university, entered into a plea agreement related to his...more
5/14/2020
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
College Admissions ,
Corruption ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Export Controls ,
Exports ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
General Licenses ,
Guilty Pleas ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Proposed Rules ,
Red Notices ,
Sanction Violations ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Whistleblowers
- On April 18, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order authorizing temporary deferral of certain duty payments, which CBP implemented via a Temporary Final Rule on April 20, 2020
- Importers of record who have...more
- Effective April 17, 2020, FEMA expanded exemptions to its April 7, 2020, Temporary Rule that implemented export restrictions on certain shipments of personal protective equipment.
- FEMA issued the Temporary Rule to...more
IN THIS ISSUE -
• Anticorruption Developments
• Export Control Sanctions and Customs Enforcement
• Export Control and Sanctions Developments
• Global Investigations Resources
• Writing and Speaking...more
4/15/2020
/ Anti-Corruption ,
College Admissions ,
Corruption ,
Criminal Conspiracy ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Export Controls ,
Exports ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Guilty Pleas ,
Money Laundering ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Pay-To-Play ,
Racketeering ,
Red Notices ,
Restitution ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Tariffs ,
USTR ,
Whistleblowers
- Beginning April 7, 2020, CBP is authorized to temporarily detain all shipments of five categories of personal protective equipment used in the response to and treatment of COVID-19, pursuant to a Temporary Rule issued by...more
- Late on Friday, March 20, 2020, USTR announced that it has opened a new public comment period for businesses and government agencies to request additional product exclusions from Section 301 duties for certain...more
- Recent actions by the U.S. government and NGOs have intensified international focus on labor conditions in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and companies that allegedly source materials and labor from the...more
IN THIS ISSUE
• Anticorruption Developments
• Export Control Sanctions and Customs Enforcement
• Export Control and Sanctions Developments
• Global Investigations Resources
• Writing and Speaking...more
2/26/2020
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ,
CFIUS ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Criminal Conspiracy ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) ,
Due Process ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Orders ,
Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) ,
Export Controls ,
Exports ,
Fifth Amendment ,
Forced Labor ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Foreign Nationals ,
Guilty Pleas ,
Imports ,
Indictments ,
ITAR ,
Money Laundering ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Red Notices ,
Sanction Violations ,
Sanctions ,
SDN List ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Smuggling ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Treasury ,
Whistleblowers
IN THIS ISSUE
• Anticorruption Developments
• Export Control Sanctions and Customs Enforcement
• Export Control and Sanctions Developments
• Global Investigations Resources
• Writing and Speaking Engagements...more
2/26/2020
/ Anti-Corruption ,
College Admissions ,
Compliance ,
Cooperation ,
Corporate Executives ,
Corruption ,
Criminal Conspiracy ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR) ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Departments of Commerce ,
Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Encryption ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Export Administration Regulations (EAR) ,
Export Controls ,
Exports ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations (FNKSR) ,
General Licenses ,
Global Dealmaking ,
Huawei ,
Indictments ,
Iran Sanctions ,
ITAR ,
Money Laundering ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Proposed Rules ,
Red Notices ,
Sanction Violations ,
SDN List ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Violations ,
Self-Disclosure Requirements ,
Supply Chain ,
USTR