Rep. Claudia Tenney introduced a bill this week calling for a Section 301 unfair trade investigation into Canada and other countries that the lawmaker says have unfairly blocked US alcohol exports.

The US walked back a 60-day pause on sanctions programs covering Iranian oil on Tuesday afternoon, issuing an amended general license.

The White House has temporarily suspended duties on phosphate fertilizer from Morocco, giving the supplier an emergency carveout as fertilizer prices remain elevated and U.S. farmers face higher input costs.

Legislation introduced by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and John Curtis (R-Utah) would press U.S. allies and partners to strengthen foreign investment screening programs to protect critical infrastructure and supply chains from strategic investments by China and other adversarial actors.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is pressing Customs and Border Protection for answers on the pace of refunds for tariffs collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, accusing the Trump Administration of delaying payments after the Supreme Court found the duties illegal.

Commerce has announced a new Section 232 national security investigation into imports of anthracite and metallurgical bituminous coal, adding another raw material to the administration’s expanding use of trade-security reviews.

The Trump administration declined Wednesday to renew the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement in its current form, keeping the pact in force but opening a decade of annual reviews that could end with its expiration in 2036.

CBP’s de minimis rules close the duty-free low-value import channel, but the commercial impact may be less protective than intended. Chinese platforms and sellers have adapted by shifting inventory into U.S. warehouses, pushing customs-clearance duties onto merchants and expanding domestic logistics networks.

The Commerce Department’s denial of Polestar’s request to keep selling connected vehicles in the United States marks the clearest sign yet that Washington’s connected-vehicle rule is no longer only a supply-chain compliance framework. It is now a market-access screen for China-linked automotive technology, with consequences that may extend well beyond passenger cars.

The summit showed Pax Silica moving from concept to operating platform: Washington expanded the U.S.-led AI and supply-chain initiative to 24 signatories, aligned a wider group of nearly three dozen economies behind a separate pro-growth AI statement, and paired the diplomacy with practical projects in shipping and workforce development.

The SAFE LiDAR Act marks the latest congressional effort to extend U.S. technology restrictions beyond connected vehicles to the components that enable autonomous driving and smart infrastructure.

CBP’s notices are procedural, but they signal a broader operational shift in import enforcement: the agency is moving more low-value mail, cargo-release, sanctions and supply-chain identity data into ACE.

Polestar, the Sweden-based electric-vehicle maker controlled by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, said the Commerce Department has denied its request for authorization to continue selling connected vehicles in the United States under the U.S. connected-vehicle rule.

CBP’s interim rules convert the de minimis suspension from a temporary enforcement posture into a durable customs process: low-value shipments must now be classified, entered, bonded where required, and assessed for duties, taxes and fees like other imports.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s warning on Chinese robotics imports puts automation squarely in the U.S.-China trade fight, with a pending Section 232 probe giving the administration a ready vehicle for tariffs or other restrictions.

CBP’s decision to open CAPE to certain reconciliation-flagged entries on June 29 gives importers a narrow chance to recover IEEPA duties on entries that had been excluded from Phase 1, but only if no reconciliation entry has yet been filed and the entry still falls within CAPE’s 80-day liquidation window. The update turns filing order into the decisive compliance issue: once a reconciliation entry is on file, the underlying entry is out of CAPE for this phase, making immediate review of pending recon-flagged entries essential for importers trying to preserve refund eligibility.

BIS’s new General Authorization 3 gives certain automotive suppliers a direct route to seek approval for covered software and vehicle-connectivity hardware under the Connected Vehicles Rule, potentially easing compliance pressure on automakers and importers that must vet complex supply chains for China- and Russia-linked risks.

The Section 301 investigation turns a drug-pricing dispute into a trade fight, testing whether the Trump administration can use tariff law to pressure Germany and other wealthy markets to pay more for patented medicines. The case signals a broader effort to make foreign pharmaceutical reimbursement policy part of U.S. trade enforcement.

The CBP order blocks U.S. imports of copper and copper products made by Serbia Zijin Copper, marking a forced-labor enforcement action against a Chinese-owned mining operation in Europe and widening supply-chain scrutiny beyond Xinjiang.

The U.S. Supreme Court passed on a closely watched challenge to the legality of the Trump administration's expansion of Section 301 tariffs on Chinese imports, leaving intact a Federal Circuit ruling …