We have been expecting tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports to go into effect on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. Both steel and aluminum will be subject to 25% tariffs across the board. Unlike the tariffs that were...more
On Sunday, February 9, 2024, President Trump announced to a group of reporters aboard Air Force One that he intended to impose universal tariffs of 25 percent on all imports of steel and aluminum into the United States on...more
China announced overnight that it will impose its own tariffs in retaliation for the newly announced U.S. tariffs. China has indicated that, effective February 10, 2025, it will impose a 15% tax on certain types of coal and...more
EU’s 12th Sanctions Package - On 19 December 2023, the Council of the European Union (EU) together with the Commission published its 12th round of sanctions....more
Solar panels, wind turbines, heat pumps and batteries are all made of metal and—unlike a barrel of oil or ton of coal—metals can be recycled. Countries heavily dependent on imports of crucial decarbonisation minerals are...more
On February 24, 2023, the US government announced a new round of trade actions targeting goods and entities from Russia. The new actions, which coincide with the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine,...more
On Friday, February 24, the one-year anniversary of Russia’s further invasion into Ukraine, President Biden, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the US Department of State, and the US Department of Commerce, Bureau...more
Big Oil repeatedly remanded to state courts - will SCOTUS come to the rescue? "Oil companies facing suits by state and local governments that want them to bear a share of the cost of responding to the consequences of...more
A new U.S. antidumping (“AD”) and countervailing duty (“CVD”) petition was filed on July 9, 2020, by List Industries Inc., Lyon LLC, Penco Products, Inc., and Tennsco LLC against imports of certain metal lockers and parts...more
New U.S. antidumping (“AD”) and countervailing duty (“CVD”) petitions were filed on May 30, 2020, by Vallourec Star, LP against imports of steel standard, line, and pressure pipe from Czechia, the Republic of Korea, Russia,...more
A new U.S. antidumping (“AD”) petition was filed on June 30, 2020, by the American Copper Tube Coalition (“Coalition”) against imports of seamless refined copper pipe and tube from Vietnam....more
New U.S. antidumping (“AD”) and countervailing duty (“CVD”) petitions were filed on May 30, 2020, by Globe Specialty Metals, Inc. and Mississippi Silicon LLC against imports of silicon metal from Bosnia and Herzegovina,...more
- On May 14, 2020, OFAC, the Department of State and the U.S. Coast Guard jointly released guidance for persons involved in the maritime industry regarding common deceptive shipping practices used to subvert U.S. and United...more
Google parent company Alphabet [and a host of chipmakers] formally suspended all business with Huawei “that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except those publicly available via open source...more
Earlier this year, we posted our 2019 Corporate Compliance & Litigation Outlook. In the post, we said the following with respect to tariffs...more
The global mining & metals sector spent much of 2018 in the thrall of macro uncertainty and geopolitical tensions. Heading into 2019, what does the underlying picture look like?...more
The U.S. International Trade Commission recently heard testimony that global markets for aluminum and aluminum products are being distorted by Chinese subsidies. On September 29, 2016, the Commission held a public hearing in...more
Editor’s note: This article was updated on July 23, 2015, to Editor’s note: This article was updated on July 23, 2015, to reflect certain additional information in U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231. On July 14, 2015,...more