With a new administration comes the regulatory freeze announcement and its potential impact on organizations and their strategic planning.

On July 30, President Trump issued a Fact Sheet and Presidential Proclamation imposing 50% tariffs on imports of semi-finished copper and intensive copper derivative products pursuant to Section 232 of the Trace Expansion Act of 1962 due to national security concerns.

In February 2024, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began taking a new approach to Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) enforcement—questionnaires.

After challenging negotiations and rising tariff tensions, the U.S. and Japan have reached a trade deal.

On November 14, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order exempting certain agricultural products from the reciprocal tariffs.

On November 15, 2020, leaders of fifteen Asia-Pacific countries signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) via a virtual signing ceremony.

On March 18, 2021, the Vice President, Kamala Harris, appointed Katherine Tai as the United States Trade Representative (USTR). This came after the Senate confirmed Tai by an overwhelming 98-0 vote.

All modesty aside for just a moment (then it's back to our very modest selves). In times like these, modesty is a little overrated anyway and these two international trade boutique shops in Dallas, Texas, Braumiller Law Group and Braumiller Consulting Group, have something to brag about.

The union and management teams reached a settlement agreement that was announced on October 4, 2024 to end the port strike. The settlement does not resolve the issues, but extends the master contract

On November 19, 2025, the official decree that reforms the Mexican Customs Law was published on the DOF (Mexican official gazette).

On September 27, 2024, Commerce announced its affirmative final determination in the ongoing AD / CVD aluminum extrusions investigation.

On June 3, 2026, President Trump signed the new Executive Order “Strengthening Customs Enforcement.” This new order from the administration tackles different administrative priorities related to customs: Customs Reform and Combatting Customs Fraud.

Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a 6-3 majority, held that IEEPA justified neither the President's drug trafficking tariffs nor his reciprocal tariffs.

For over fifteen years, importers of regulated consumer products operated under a reactive compliance model: certificates of compliance were required at the time of import under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, but importers only had to produce them on CPSC’s request.

On July 30, the White House released a Fact Sheet and Executive Order (EO) announcing the elimination of de minimis for all countries, effective August 29, due to a national emergency with respect to threats to national security, foreign policy and the economy of the U.S.

On July 7, 2025, President Trump extended the baseline additional 10% "reciprocal" tariff on all countries except Canada, China, and Mexico to August 1, 2025.

On October 7, 2025, after a nearly 9-hour debate, with 338 votes in favor, 129 against and zero abstention, Mexico Congress approved Sheinbaum´s draft bill to amend the MX Customs law.

Following the February 20 Executive Order, "Ending Certain Tariff Actions," Customs and Border Protection released guidance regarding its termination of IEEPA tariff collection, effective 12:00 a.m. ET on February 24.

February 1st, 2025, a day in international trade that could/will live forever as the day "the pin was pulled" and the landscape of trade relations with some of our top allies was dramatically changed.

On June 2, 2026, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released its report on Section 301 investigations into the practices of sixty trade partners’ economies with regard to forced labor prohibitions. The report came after extensive consultations, testimony, and comments, and the sixty economies investigated account for over 99% of imports into the U.S.