President Donald Trump kicked off an active day on social media with posts on two of his favorite themes: bashing ex-media allies and proclaiming the United States the "HOTTEST" country, before turning his attention to world affairs to announce Iran's reopening of the Strait of Hormuz after weeks of choking off a critical sea trade route.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is headed to Mexico this week to continue discussions in advance of the upcoming mandated review of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement. A key topic of …
The Trump administration currently is drafting a plurilateral agreement on critical minerals trade with key trading partners to lessen dependence on China, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Thursday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is hammering out the kinks ahead of the April 20 launch date for its new tariff refund portal, according to new FAQs and a court filing from the agency.
The global economy, already reeling from higher tariffs and greater uncertainty, now faces a major hurdle from the war in the Middle East that is likely to slow economic growth, the International Monetary Fund reported Tuesday.
On April 20 the U.S. Customs and Border Protection will open its much-anticipated refund portal for claiming back duties paid before the Supreme Court upended the President Trump's sweeping "reciprocal" and "fentanyl" tariff programs, the agency announced Friday afternoon.
The U.S. Department of Labor on April 8 unveiled a new set of voluntary tools aimed at helping American companies identify labor abuses in global supply chains and better comply with U.S. restrictions on imports tied to forced labor.
The order closing the duty loophole for packages valued less than $800 may have based its rates on now-vacated tariffs, but the de minimis party is still canceled, the White House confirmed.
In a social media post Wednesday, President Donald Trump heralded 50% duties on "any and all goods sold to the United States of America" from "a Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran." The new levies, he said, would be "effective immediately." While nothing has materialized 24 hours later, trade watchers have theories.
US Trade Representative Jamison Greer says he returned from the World Trade Organization's 14th ministerial conference convinced that the WTO "isn't a serious forum."
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Thursday imposing tariffs of up to 100% on imported patented pharmaceutical products, framing the order as a move to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign drug supply chains and lower prices.
The White House is clarifying national security tariffs on steel, aluminum and copper, effectively eliminating the circuitous conversations about value that have kept importers of derivative products up at night over the past year, but likely raising the duties they will pay, starting Monday.
If one thing unites the commentators weighing in on the tempestuous year that followed President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference and sweeping tariff announcements on April 2, 2025, it’s a sense of disappointment. The tariffs neither galvanized a boom economy nor wrought the vicious cycles of economic doom talking heads on either side of the political spectrum presaged.
Cryptocurrency is playing a growing role in financing the procurement of low-cost military drones and components linked to conflicts involving Russia and Iran, according to a new report by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. The findings highlight emerging compliance risks at the intersection of digital finance and modern warfare, as well as potential avenues for monitoring adversaries' acquisitions.
Customs and Border Protection on March 27 updated its guidance implementing the March 17 Jones Act waiver, publishing a revised list of potentially covered products and clarifying that cargo qualifies only if it is loaded aboard the vessel before 11:59 p.m. EDT on Sunday, May 17, 2026.
The Federal Communications Commission on March 23 added “routers produced in a foreign country” to its Covered List, a move that blocks new models from obtaining FCC equipment authorization and therefore from being newly imported, marketed, or sold in the United States.
A USMCA rapid-response labor panel has found a “severe” denial of freedom of association and collective bargaining rights at a gold and silver mine in Zacatecas, Mexico, concluding that management interfered in union affairs, favored a rival union, and acquiesced in threats and coercion against workers.
Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, on March 26 urged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to open a Section 232 investigation into imports of heavy construction and agricultural …
The Energy Department has opened a new $500 million funding round for U.S. critical-minerals processing, battery-materials manufacturing and recycling, as the Trump administration used the Indo-Pacific Energy Security Ministerial and Business Forum in Tokyo to showcase a broader allied financing and supply-chain campaign spanning critical minerals, LNG, nuclear energy and related infrastructure.
President Trump has granted a 60-day waiver of the Jones Act, temporarily allowing foreign-flagged vessels to carry fuel and other covered cargoes between U.S. ports as the administration seeks to ease domestic supply strains and blunt higher energy costs.