Antidumping (“AD”) and countervailing duty (“CVD”) petitions filed on October 28, 2026 cover shopping carts and cart parts from China. The petitions allege dumping margins of 165 percent to 343 percent, along with a range of Chinese subsidies, and Commerce
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Client Alert: The UK Defence Footprint 2026 and the Warsaw Defence Plan: Investment, Innovation and Opportunities
By Nate Young
On 27 October 2026, the UK Ministry of Defence (“MOD”) published UK Defence Footprint 2026 (the “Footprint”), bringing together defence spending and industrial initiatives, including previously announced investments, and setting out planned defence spending of £298 billion over the next…
New AD/CVD Petitions Filed on Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe from Georgia and India
By Pierce Lee
On October 14, 2026, Tenaris USA, Vallourec Star LP, and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC (the “USW”) filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) and…
EU Adds Nearly 1,600 Russia Sanctions Listings, Targeting Defense Supply Chains
On October 12, 2026, the EU adopted its largest-ever single round of Russia sanctions listings, adding 826 companies associated with Russia’s military-industrial complex and 743 executives of these companies to Annex I of Regulation (EU) No 269/2014. The 1,569 additions…
Importers of Chassis Made Outside China With Chinese Parts May Recover AD/CVD Deposits as CIT Again Rejects Commerce’s Scope Ruling
The U.S. Court of International Trade (“CIT”) has again rejected the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (“Commerce”) determination that chassis manufactured in Vietnam with Chinese-origin parts are covered by the antidumping (“AD”) and countervailing duty (“CVD”) orders on chassis from China.…
Client Alert: DOJ Fraud Division Issues Corporate Enforcement Directive
On October 1, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) National Fraud Enforcement Division issued Directive 26-12: Corporate Enforcement in the Fight Against Fraud. Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald’s October directive follows his August 2026 memorandum setting the…
U.S.-China Trade Truce Extended Two Months: BIS Affiliates Rule Suspension Follows
State Department Issues Two New Rules Amending the ITAR
On Friday, September 18, 2026, the U.S. Department of State issued two rules amending the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). The first, an interim final rule effective October 19, narrows U.S. Munitions List (USML) Category XX(a) controls on certain…
OFAC Creates Unified Sanctions Penalties Regulations
By Carlton Greene & Nate Young
Key Takeaways:
- Key Takeaway #1: The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) published a final rule (the “Rule”), effective September 25, 2026, creating the “Sanctions Penalties Regulations” under 31 CFR Part 505: the agency’s first-ever single,
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The Lindsey Graham Sanctions Act: What Businesses Need to Know About the New Tariffs
President Trump signed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act into law on September 18, 2026, following bipartisan passage in both chambers. Among its most commercially significant provisions is a sweeping new tariff framework targeting Russia and countries…