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Comment and analysis by Reed Smith lawyers on the latest developments in trade, sanctions and export controls

Update: On February 1, 2025, President Trump signed three executive orders imposing U.S. tariffs on imports from Canada, China, and Mexico. These new tariffs are in addition to any already-existing duties and tariffs, including antidumping and countervailing

Update: After a February 3 call with Mexico’s president, President Trump announced on Truth Social that the tariffs on Mexican goods will be paused for one month. He is also scheduled to speak with Prime Minister Trudeau, which could result

With U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent return to the White House, major regulatory changes are on the horizon for 2025. On Thursday, January 23rd, we gathered a group of regulatory attorneys from across Reed Smith to provide a one-hour CLE

On December 23, 2024, President Biden signed The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025 (P.L. 118-159) into law. The legislation authorizes $895.2 billion in funding for Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Energy (DOE) national security

On January 13, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released an interim final rule to revise U.S. export controls on advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs) and add a new control on artificial intelligence (AI) model weights for certain advanced,

On January 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a sweeping set of actions to further reduce Russian revenues from energy, including blocking two major Russian oil producers, Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegas,

On December 9, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas (the Court) issued a preliminary injunction enjoining Arkansas’s enforcement of Acts 636 and 174 (the Acts), which impose certain restrictions on foreign ownership of land and

On November 5, 2024, the United States elected former President Donald Trump to become its 47th president. Following Trump’s re-election, and with Republicans gaining control Congress, U.S. trade policy is expected to undergo several significant changes based on Trump’s previous