President Trump signed an executive order directing the Federal Trade Commission to step up enforcement against false “Made in America” claims and to consider new rules requiring online marketplaces to verify country-of-origin representations by third-party sellers. 

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Thursday opened a second sweeping set of Section 301 investigations, this time targeting 60 economies over what it said was a failure to impose and effectively enforce bans on imports of goods made with forced labor.

The Trump administration is weighing a temporary suspension of the Jones Act to ease domestic fuel and commodity shipments after a new oil shock pushed Brent crude above $100 a barrel.   

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) on Thursday announced the start of two Congress-ordered investigations related to China: a factfinding probe on the economic effects of revoking China’s permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status, and a separate investigation examining Chinese state support and pricing practices in the biotechnology sector and their impacts on U.S. competitiveness. 

The Commerce Department on Feb. 24 announced preliminary affirmative countervailing duty (CVD) determinations in investigations of crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) cells—whether or not assembled into modules—from India, Indonesia, and Laos. 

The Office of the United States Trade Representative is soliciting public comment on the design of a legally binding plurilateral agreement on trade in critical minerals and related policy actions intended to strengthen supply-chain resilience for minerals and downstream industries viewed as strategically essential.  The notice is notable less for its diagnosis—U.S. dependence on foreign sources and vulnerability to non-market distortions—than for the remedy it puts on the table: minimum prices or other price mechanisms, paired with border measures, to create “secure and fairly-priced markets” among participating countries and thereby induce market-based investment in mining, processing, and refining. 

President Donald Trump issued a  memorandum waiving statutory prerequisites that ordinarily apply before the government can use Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III, Section 303 authorities to expand domestic production capacity for national defense needs. The memorandum targets “critical” defense-industrial supply chains and sectors.

President Trump signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA) to protect and expand supplies of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides, arguing the inputs are essential both to military readiness and to U.S. food-system security. 

The Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council has proposed a rule to bar federal agencies from procuring products or services that use “covered” semiconductors linked to three Chinese firms

Indonesia is seeking additional tariff carve-outs from the United States after President Donald Trump and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto announced a new “Agreement on Reciprocal Trade” on Feb. 19 in Washington. 

In this article Ashlyn Koenig Smith, of Schulz Trade Law discusses recent changes to automation concerning U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) new electronic refund process, and Voluntary Self-Disclosures (VSDs). It highlights what you need to know about these changes and who needs to take action to keep your business up to date.

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled 6–3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not authorize the President to impose tariffs. The decision invalidates the Administration’s “reciprocal” tariffs imposed under IEEPA on most U.S. trading partners.

The statute President Donald Trump used to craft punitive tariffs on dozens of U.S. trade partners does not authorize the White House to impose tariffs, the Supreme Court held in a 6-3 decision Friday.

U.S. industry groups have amplified calls to overhaul the process for Section 232 tariffs, citing compressed deadlines, opaque criteria, and ballooning compliance costs, while Friday's ruling on the President’s IEEPA‐based tariffs may lead to a broad expansion of 232 actions.

The Trump administration is preparing to scale back portions of its steel and aluminum tariff regime—particularly the “derivative” duties applied to downstream goods—as it confronts …

The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded  Davie Defense a contract for five Arctic Security Cutters (ASCs), completing the framework established in the October memorandum of understanding between the …

U.S. cattle producers are raising objections to the Administration’s decision to expand import access for Argentine beef, warning the move could undermine domestic ranchers even as officials frame it as a consumer-price relief measure linked to the recently announced U.S.–Argentina trade framework.

The Trump administration is preparing to exempt major U.S. technology companies from forthcoming semiconductor tariffs as they expand artificial-intelligence data-center capacity, according to reporting by the Financial Times.

Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a Federal Register notice preparing for the potential use of emergency powers under the Defense Priorities and Allocations System (DPAS) to regulate copper supply chains deemed essential to national defense.

The White House on February 6 issued an executive order removing a 25 percent additional ad valorem duty previously imposed on imports from India in response to New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil, formally modifying U.S. tariff treatment as part of the emerging U.S.–India trade understanding.