Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
Commerce Department Announces New Section 232 Investigations on Polysilicon and its Derivative Products and Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Parts and Components Thereof
On July 14, 2025, the Commerce Department announced new investigations initiated by the Secretary of Commerce on July 1, 2025, pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The pre-publication Federal…
Trump Issues Reciprocal Tariff Letters to 8 Additional Trade Partners
An UPDATE to yesterday's blog post : On Wednesday, July 9,President Trump issued letters to eight additional trade partners notifyingthem of their country-specific reciprocal tariff rates that will go into effecton…
President Trump Announces New Country-Specific Reciprocal Tariffs
On Monday, President Trump announced new country-specific reciprocal tariff rates for a number of trading partners in a series of letters posted to Truth Social. President Trump also signed an executive order that…
White House Terminates Most Syria Sanctions
On June 30, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) implemented the President’s Executive Order “Providing for the Revocation of Syria Sanctions,” (Syria EO) which removes U.S.…
Supreme Court Denies Request to Fast-Track Reciprocal Tariffs Case
On Friday June 20, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a motion in an IEEPA / reciprocal tariff litigation case that sought to bypass the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and have the Supreme Court hear the case early. So, for…