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On October 17, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Proclamation 10984 announcing that, effective November 1, 2025, the United States will begin levying a 25% tariff on medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (“MHDVs”), a 25% tariff on medium- and heavy-duty vehicle parts (“MHDVPs”), and a 10% tariff on buses pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion…

Update: On November 7, 2025, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative issued a notice rescheduling the public hearing on the operation of the Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada (USMCA). Originally scheduled for November 17, the hearing will now take place from December 3 to 5…

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA) has published a Federal Register notice indicating that effective June 30, 2025, in consultation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. International Trade Commission, it has revised relevant provisions of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United State (HTSUS) to conform with changes specified…

President Donald Trump issued a Proclamation on June 3, 2025 increasing the previously imposed Section 232 tariffs on aluminum and steel products and their derivatives from 25% to 50%. These increased tariffs were effective June 4, 2025. The proclamation excluded products of the United Kingdom which stay at 25% until July 9, 2025.

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On April 29, 2025, President Trump signed a Proclamation amending the previously announced tariffs on automobile parts used in passenger vehicles and light trucks. This amendment follows Proclamation 10908, which announced 25% section 232 tariffs on imports of certain final, assembled passenger vehicles and light trucks (“automobiles”), effective April 3, 2025, and imports of…

On April 29, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) clarifying that each of the tariffs he has imposed pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, serve separate and distinct policy purposes, but should “not all have a cumulative effect (or ‘stack’…

UPDATE: On March 24, 2025, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a message noting the release of an updated list of impacted HTSUS codes covering “energy” and “energy resources” from Canada that are now subject to 10% tariffs since March 4, 2025. The list now specifically includes all crude and crude mixtures along with…

On March 3, 2025, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) delivered President Donald Trump’s 2025 Trade Policy Agenda, 2024 Annual Report, and World Trade Organization at Thirty report to Congress. This year’s trade agenda seeks to strengthen the middle class and national defense and to address trade deficits by focusing on a “Production…

President Donald Trump issued two executive orders (“EOs”) on March 6, 2025 delaying the 25% tariffs imposed against imports of products of Canada and Mexico (10% tariffs for imports of energy products of Canada) pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) until April 2, 2025.  The EOs specifically provide that goods qualifying and entered…

  • Directing the Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of the Treasury and the U.S. Trade Representative to “investigate the causes of our country’s large and persistent
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