5/14/2025 8:51:47 PM Trump Tariff Tracker -- May 14 By Matthew West Bilateral negotiations around the Trump Administration’s tariffs have begun to bear fruit as we see tariff relief for China and the U.K. ...
5/9/2025 1:38:14 PM President Trump Pulls the Plug on Controversial AI Diffusion Rule By Jason Wilcox In a highly anticipated move, the Trump administration has announced that it will rescind and replace the AI Diffusion Rule issued by the...
5/1/2025 12:36:47 AM Trump Tariff Tracker -- April 30 By Matthew West We have passed the 100-day mark in the second Trump Administration and tariffs remain the talk of the town, with President Trump taking...
4/14/2025 2:33:17 PM Trump Tariff Tracker -- April 14 By Matthew West After a whirlwind of a week in U.S. trade policy, the dust has finally settled and we can see where we have landed with the reciprocal...
4/8/2025 4:52:50 AM Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Claw Back Congressional Authority over Tariffs By Alexander Reinert In response to President Trump's imposition of wide-ranging reciprocal tariffs last week, on Thursday, April 3, Senators Chuck Grassley...
4/3/2025 12:11:37 AM Trump Tariff Tracker -- April 2 By Matthew West Dubbing it America’s “Declaration of Economic Independence,” President Trump signed an Executive Order implementing discounted reciprocal...
1/2/2025 9:20:21 PM Treasury Department's Outbound Investment Regulations Effective January 2, 2025 By Baker Botts On January 2, 2025, the US Department of the Treasury's regulations implementing Executive Order 14105 “Addressing United States...
12/24/2024 4:21:59 PM Biden Administration Launches Section 301 Investigation into Chinese Semiconductor Industry By Alexander Reinert On December 23, 2024, the Biden administration announced that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative ("USTR") is launching a new...
12/11/2024 5:08:09 AM China Bans Exports to U.S. of Critical Minerals Used in High Tech “Dual-Use” Materials By Rebecca Seidl Alexander Reinert On December 3, 2024, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced strict export restrictions on “dual-use” technologies. Dual-use...
10/31/2024 4:45:23 PM Enhancing Compliance in the Maritime Shipping Industry By Baker Botts Today, the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") issued an OFAC Compliance Communiqué: Sanctions...
10/1/2024 12:53:10 AM House of Representatives Passes BIOSECURE Act By Baker Botts On September 9, 2024, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 8333, the BIOSECURE Act (the “House Bill”). The text of the passed House...
9/19/2024 2:50:05 PM OFAC Extends Recordkeeping Requirements for All Sanctions Programs By Matthew West In an era of active U.S. sanctions policy, it is not uncommon to see the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issue a notice...