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 measure would sanction Russian officials, financial institutions, energy projects, and vessels associated with sanctions evasion. It also would direct the president to impose additional tariffs of up to 100 percent on goods from countries that continue qualifying purchases of Russian crude oil or natural gas and rank among the five largest importers by volume during the 12 months preceding enactment.
The White House escalated its trade dispute with Canada on September 9, announcing import bans on specified Canadian alcohol, dairy products and large motorcycles and revising the products subject to 50% ad valorem duties. The tariff changes take effect September 15; the import bans begin September 29.
The federal agency charged with helping protect civilian networks and critical infrastructure is reducing services and operating with a depleted workforce as adversaries increasingly use artificial intelligence to find weaknesses in essential systems.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has published its fiscal year 2025 annual report to Congress after apparently skipping a public report for fiscal 2024—returning with a markedly shorter, more political and less statistically coherent account of its performance.
When faculty disclosures, conflict-of-interest records, sponsored-research systems and export-control processes remain siloed, undisclosed foreign ties can create exposure under grant rules, agency-specific restrictions and the False Claims Act—even when the relevant information already exists somewhere within the university.
The action creates both immediate compliance duties and broader prospective risk. Companies must rescreen counterparties and vessels, identify entities covered by OFAC’s 50% Rule, and wind down transactions relying on suspended remittance, educational and exchange authorizations by Sept. 8. At the same time, the addition of aviation, digital assets, gold, shipping and technology under Executive Order 13902 gives Treasury wider authority to sanction non-U.S. businesses supporting those sectors of Iran’s economy.
The White House’s “Great Transshipment Scam” report casts lawful sourcing shifts and trade involving Chinese inputs as potential customs fraud. Deborah Elms argues that this expansive definition could criminalize legitimate commerce, raise costs and drive further supply-chain disruption—much of it prompted by Washington’s own uneven tariffs.
The settlement is one of the State Department’s larger recent civil export-enforcement actions, with regulators describing BAE’s violations as systemic and requiring three years of independent oversight and compliance reforms.
The Trump administration’s 2026 regulatory agenda signals a targeted expansion of U.S. trade and economic-security controls, led by the suspension of duty-free de minimis treatment, a replacement framework for artificial-intelligence export controls, new restrictions on critical technologies and military end users, statutory outbound-investment screening, and significant ITAR revisions.
The licensing delays deepen questions about whether BIS has the capacity to administer Washington’s expanding export-control system.
The Senate vote marks the most significant expansion of U.S. statutory sanctions against Russia since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has empowered its courts to cancel certain foreign investors’ rights to buy back businesses and other assets sold after the invasion of Ukraine.
The measures amount to one of the EU’s broadest efforts yet to restrict the financial and logistical networks sustaining Russia’s war. The final agreement is nevertheless narrower than the European Commission’s original proposal, with planned fisheries restrictions omitted and an immediate ban on Russian combatants entering the EU deferred.
A revised Russia sanctions bill negotiated with the White House has secured more than 60 Senate cosponsors, giving supporters the votes needed to overcome a filibuster but leaving the timing of a floor vote—and the legislation’s path through the House—unresolved.
The White House wants federal funding to follow scientists, not institutions, while putting artificial intelligence and national security at the center of research. The approach could accelerate discovery—but weaken safeguards now supplied by universities and national laboratories.
President Donald Trump has invoked a dormant provision of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff law to impose additional 50 percent duties on a broad range of Canadian products, reviving an authority that …
The US tariff regime changes again this week as the Trump administration replaces temporary global duties with tariffs imposed under other trade laws.
Wyden and Neal say proposed legislation would give the President sweeping unilateral tariff powers beyond its Russia sanctions purpose.
From the start of Tuesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, it was clear that the lawmakers and their sole witness, Under Secretary of Commerce Jeffrey Kessler, were having two very …
