Eli Lilly’s new collaboration with China’s InnoCare Pharma underscores the commercial stakes as the Trump administration considers whether to preserve most pharmaceutical licensing deals under forthcoming outbound investment rules.
The bipartisan Communications and Technology Transparency Act would broaden the FCC’s Covered List to expressly cover information and communications technology and services while limiting future additions to products and services supplied by entities controlled by foreign adversaries. The bill would strengthen Commerce’s role and congressional oversight while preserving existing listings.
The proposed tariffs expose a conflict in the administration’s technology policy: Duties may encourage domestic memory-chip production over time, but U.S. factories cannot meet current demand. In the interim, tariffs could raise costs for the imported chips needed to build data centers, train AI models and manufacture consumer electronics.
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed artificial intelligence at the White House on September 24, but their public statements revealed different approaches to oversight.
Despite its broad supply-chain ambitions, the announcement’s principal identified financing proposal centers on a single LNG export project led by Argentina’s YPF, Italy’s Eni and the UAE’s XRG. The announcements provide substantially less detail on financing for the corridor’s mining, transportation and digital components.
The transaction places Sokolov’s political giving, private investments and public role under scrutiny: a firm he manages received permission to acquire an asset from a sanctioned Russian bank while he was appointed to lead a U.S.-backed investment fund serving the same region.
The intervention request places the United States behind Musk and X in a dispute over how far EU regulators may extend liability beyond a digital platform to its owner and affiliated companies. The outcome could affect other U.S. technology companies operating in Europe.
The White House’s denial that it is preparing a diesel export ban leaves the proposal a political demand rather than an announced policy. An embargo could briefly lower prices near Gulf Coast refineries but offer limited relief at the pump: reduced refinery output could raise gasoline and jet-fuel costs, while import-dependent West Coast markets face higher international prices.
The Commerce Department has defined the specialty pharmaceuticals and related ingredients eligible for a zero tariff under President Trump’s Section 232 pharmaceutical proclamation. The agency also …
The Trump administration is holding back new tariff announcements until after President Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sept. 24, keeping tariff pressure available while negotiators pursue a narrower package of reciprocal duty relief.
House Democrats are moving to block the U.S.-Saudi civil nuclear agreement, arguing that it would give Riyadh a path to uranium enrichment without the inspection safeguards Washington required of the United Arab Emirates. The joint resolution of disapproval faces long odds in the Republican-controlled Congress, but it puts the agreement’s central proliferation risks—and the administration’s refusal to release two classified side letters—at the center of the statutory review.
The warning marks a shift in emphasis from the FARA prosecutions that often concern foreign lobbying and disclosure failures; DOJ’s latest announcement expressly extends its warning to public demonstrations undertaken as an agent of a foreign power.
The proposed FAR overhaul matters to export-control and supply chain resilience professionals because it could change how federal agencies obtain technical data, qualify alternative suppliers, and structure transportation contracts. Its data-rights provisions could support competitive sourcing and sustainment, but government rights to use or disclose technology would remain subject to export controls.
Nations gathered in Laos last week to assess progress on a convention banning cluster munitions, just as new figures show that 2025 counted one of the highest annual numbers of casualties on record. Campaigners are calling for renewed international condemnation of the weapons.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) on September 10 outlined export promotion and financing opportunities to expand U.S. agricultural sales to Venezuela as the country recovers from recent earthquakes.
The talks collapsed over more than tariff rates, according to Canadian trade lawyers: Washington sought concessions touching sovereignty, cultural policy and strategic industries while offering limited tariff relief. The rupture—and the White House’s September 9 escalation—leaves Canadian companies facing prolonged managed trade, requiring immediate reviews of product classification, origin, valuation, contractual risk and available customs relief.
Three U.S. agencies say six Chinese companies used large-scale efforts to copy key features from leading American artificial intelligence models.
The notice underscores the improvised character of the administration’s revival of Section 338. Only after the President used the nearly dormant statute to impose 50% duties on Canadian goods is the USITC asking how to define discriminatory conduct, gather evidence, protect confidential sources, investigate allegations, and advise the President.
The Financial Action Task Force has warned that underground banking, hawala, and similar service providers are becoming integral to sophisticated, cross-border money-laundering networks. Some schemes examined by the FATF moved more than EUR 500 million within a few months.
The July figures point to a renewed widening of the U.S. trade gap after its sharp contraction earlier this year, driven less by consumer imports than by a surge in capital goods, particularly computers and related equipment.