The dismembering of the National Security Council has sunk the newly-established national office of shipbuilding, with Ian Bennitt, the NSC's senior director for maritime and industrial capacity announcing his departure in a LinkedIn post.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer laid out his three-point priorities list during an appearance in Detroit on Wednesday, distancing himself from predecessors who he said centered their goals on reaching specific trade agreements.
Joe Manchin, speaking from the witness side of the diais, urged lawmakers to deploy National Defense Authorization to speed up permitting for domestic critical minerals mining and refining in his testimony at a hearing on Breaking China's Chokehold on Critical Mineral Supply Chains.
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) is undergoing sweeping organizational and technological changes that signal a recalibrated approach to personnel vetting and security services under the Trump administration. Now the agency is losing its chief.
The U.S. Department of Commerce is accepting public input on its national security investigations into unmanned aircraft systems and polysilicon imports between July 16 and August 6, 2025.
The bipartisian Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025 is expected to reach the Senate Floor in the coming weeks, as President Trump continues to push to water down key enforcement provisions of the bill.
At a WITA-hosted panel Friday, former senior U.S. trade officials described an increasingly chaotic and opaque landscape for global trading partners navigating the Trump administration’s tariff policy. Former Assistant USTRs Wendy Cutler, Mark Linscott, Daniel Mullaney, and policy advisor Michael Smart outlined a central and unresolved problem: the uncertain role and treatment of Section 232 tariffs in current negotiations.
The White House pressed 14 trade partners to come to the table or face slightly adjusted versions of the "reciprocal tariff" rates announced back in April through a flurry of letters posted to President Donald Trump’s social media account Monday afternoon.
Sanctions published last week by OFAC effectively weaponize access to cloud platforms, identity systems, and communication tools, highlighting the vulnerability of global institutions reliant on U.S.-based digital infrastructure.
Compliance professionals would do well to take their summer holidays early this year, before the Bureau of Industry and Security drops its anticipated “50% Rule,” a move set to multiply the roughly 3,000 entities currently subject to export licensing requirements with the stroke of a pen.
The US - China trade understanding, reached in Geneva in May and "finalized" June 24 appears to have defused the tit-for-tat escalation of restrictions on rare earths exports from China and countermeasures from Washington restricting exports of US technology and commodities.
Fresh off a win against Canada over its digital services tax, President Trump is now putting the pressure on Japan to make concessions in order to avoid hefty tariffs after the July 9 deadline for making trade deals. The Japanese aren't buying the bluster.
Auxin Solar pressed a U.S. Court of International Trade judge to impose duties topping 250% on products that entered the U.S. during a Biden-era tariff reprieve, telling the court during oral arguments Thursday that more than a year later the threat posed by the imports remained “existential.”
The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued new sanctions last week targeting five “sham” charities and associated individuals across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East for alleged support to Palestinian terrorist organizations, a move one former official said should remind donors to stay vigilant.
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.
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.
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 White House is pressing Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to significantly revise the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025 , which currently commands broad bipartisan support in the Senate. Congressional aides warned that such changes would “render Graham’s bill toothless.”
On June 4, 2025, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, addressing the Department of Commerce’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget request. “We are absolutely seeking reciprocity with respect to things that can be reciprocal,” the Secretary said.
Federal counterterrorism and financial intelligence enforcement activities face markedly lower funding in the "Big Beautiful Bill" budget under consideration in the Senate. While Commerce is asking for an increase in BIS funding, other areas, including export promotion, are being gutted.
