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On April 23, 2025, the Commerce Department announced a new investigation initiated pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. This is the fourth Section 232 investigation announced in April 2025, following...more
Seeks to optimize and target federal investments in workforce development to align with U.S. reindustrialization needs and equip American workers to fill demand for skilled trades and other occupations. The Order requires the...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security has issued the final rule that will determine how its Information and Communications Technology and Services regulations will work going forward....more
On April 24, 2025, Ferroglobe USA, Inc. (“Ferroglobe”) and Mississippi Silicon LLC (Mississippi Silicon”) (collectively, “Petitioners”), filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on U.S....more
On April 16, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published a report on the Chinese company DeepSeek’s AI model with findings from the committee’s investigation into DeepSeek. The report...more
The Fedtrade® podcast recently interviewed Adam Boltik, Program Manager for the Office of International Commerce of the State of New Hampshire Department of Business and Economic Affairs, as part of our SelectUSA Investment...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security has issued the final rule that will determine how its Information and Communications Technology and Services regulations will work going forward. Originally...more
The second Trump administration has come flying out of the starting blocks on international trade policy actions—imposing and rescinding, shaping and reshaping tariffs, sanctions, and export controls. The executive orders and...more
Section 232 investigations determine whether the targeted U.S. imports threaten to impair U.S. national security. At the conclusion of a Section 232 investigation (which can last for up to 270 days), the President must...more
Over the past few weeks, the Trump Administration has announced three new investigations under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 into whether imports of pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and critical minerals and...more
Repeals the “Management of the Marine National Monument” section of Proclamation 9173 (Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument Expansion), which appropriated the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument...more
Overview of Section 232 Actions - While President Trump has often utilized the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to levy tariffs during the recent onslaught of tariff action, Section 232 of the Trade...more
Effective April 5, the United States imposed a 10% baseline tariff on imports from nearly all countries, excluding products from Canada and Mexico, and those products contained in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United...more
On April 1, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) launched a Section 232 investigation into the national security of semiconductor imports. On April 16, Commerce published a Request for Information (RFI) seeking public...more
On April 1, the US Secretary of Commerce initiated a section 232 “national security” investigation, “to determine the effects on national security of imports of semiconductors, semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME), and...more
The Department of Commerce (Commerce) has launched three Section 232 investigations covering pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical ingredients, and their derivative products; semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment...more
The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) has initiated a Section 232 investigation of imports of semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. According to the Federal Register notice...more
I. Key Takeaways - - The Secretary of Commerce is investigating the effects of imports of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients (and their derivative products) on national security to support potential tariffs or...more
This article provides an overview of the most recent tariff updates affecting businesses operating within the semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and critical mineral industries. Below we outline recent tariff exclusions for...more
On April 15, 2025, President Trump directed the Secretary of Commerce to initiate an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 examining the threats to national security from imports of processed...more
Yesterday, April 16, 2025, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), a bureau within the U.S. Department of Commerce, published a “Notice of Request for Public Comments on Section 232 National Security Investigation of...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it has initiated a Trade Expansion Act of 1962 Section 232 investigation to determine whether imports of pharmaceutical products and ingredients pose a national security risk to...more
On April 14, 2025, the US Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced the initiation of investigations into the effects on US national security of imports of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical...more
On April 16, 2025, the Department of Commerce announced that it initiated an investigation on April 1, 2025, under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, into imports of semiconductors, semiconductor manufacturing equipment...more
On April 15, 2025, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order (EO) directing the Secretary of Commerce to initiate an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Section 232), to determine...more