President Donald J. Trump on Friday issued an Executive Order reversing the Biden administration’s prior prohibition of Nippon Steel Corporation’s proposed acquisition of United States Steel Corporation. The order clears the way for the $14.9 billion deal to proceed, contingent upon the execution and enforcement of a binding national security agreement.
United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced that the United States has formally requested that Mexico review alleged violations of labor rights at Tubos de Acero de Mexico, S.A. (TAMSA), a steel pipe manufacturer in Veracruz.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has launched its biennial review of country eligibility under the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) and is soliciting public comments to inform its report to Congress.
Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA) has opened the application process for automobile manufacturers to request tariff relief under the Import Adjustment Offset Program established by Presidential Proclamation 10925. The program aims to subsidize U.S. automobile assembly operations and reduce reliance on imported parts that the administration has deemed a national security risk.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent repeatedly denied that tariffs are taxes in an appearance before the Senate Finance Committee Thursday, saying there is no “empirical evidence” that prices are rising because of President Trump’s tariffs.
Following high-level U.S.–China trade talks in London, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that the United States will reverse recently imposed export controls on ethane shipments to China. The decision ends a short-lived but disruptive policy that, according to observers, revealed deep flaws in U.S. economic statecraft.
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed a $215,988,868 civil penalty on GVA Capital Ltd., a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, for egregious violations of U.S. sanctions targeting Russia and Ukraine, and for failing to comply with a federal subpoena.
Counsel representing Chinese aluminum foil companies cited Tina Turner during oral arguments at the U.S. Court of International Trade on Thursday, as attorneys faced off over the U.S. Department of Commerce’s approach to surrogate value data selection post-Loper Bright.
Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Jeffrey Kessler faced pointed questions over the Bureau of …
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is requesting public input on the renewal of its information collection program supporting national security and critical technology …
A federal appeals court has extended a stay on a lower court ruling that blocked President Donald Trump’s controversial use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs, allowing the levies to remain in place pending further litigation.
Justice has reached a settlement with Epik Solutions, doing business as Epikso, after determining the company unlawfully excluded U.S. citizens and other work-authorized individuals from job …
With this week's indictment of Crypto Bro Iurii Gugnin on half-billion-dollar money laundering, sanctions and export control charges, along with the release of revised and greatly loosened enforcement guidelines for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, we wanted to check in on the progress Congressional sponsors have made with the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act (S. 1582), which aims to establish the first federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins.
Head of the Criminal Division Matthew Galeotti discussed his newly released Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Enforcement Guidelines at the American Conference Institute (ACI) FCPA & Global Anti‑Corruption Conference in New York June 10. The guidelines, outlined in a June 9, 2025 memorandum from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, direct prosecutors to pursue FCPA cases only when U.S. interests are demonstrably implicated.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has issued new enforcement guidelines governing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), consistent with the President's mandate to give US firms more latitude to compete overseas. The new rules restore what the Administration has called the “proper bounds” of FCPA enforcement and reorient prosecutorial discretion toward conduct that demonstrably undermines American strategic and economic interests.
At the June 10 session of the Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee (RPTAC), Microsoft’s Global Trade legal team urged the Department of Commerce to adopt a more flexible and …
In his presentation to the June 10 RPTAC, Omari Wooden, Assistant Division Chief, Trade Outreach and Regulations at US Census Bureau discussed the upcoming release of a final rule, clarifications on Automated Export System (AES) filing requirements, and modernization of the Census Bureau’s trade data tools.
As Independence Day approaches and planning intensifies for the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026, the American Pyrotechnics Association (APA) is urging the Trump administration to reduce or exempt fireworks from the current 30% tariff on imports.
The Trump administration has offered to scale back key export controls on advanced technologies as part of a renewed push to secure a comprehensive trade agreement with China, marking a significant shift in the use of national security tools as leverage in trade negotiations.
Amid rising cross-Strait tensions and unprecedented arms sales with the United States, the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan has called for urgent reforms to its defense procurement policies, warning that recent regulatory changes may deter foreign contractors and undermine the island’s security objectives.
