On May 14, 2024, the United States Trade Representative ("USTR") announced the publication of its long-awaited report on the Four-Year Review of Actions Taken in the Section 301...

Aside from one last mid-January initiative by the Obama Administration to begin rolling back sanctions targeting Sudan, the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control...

What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a defendant has acted willfully in violation of the Arms Export Control Act ("AECA")?

On August 14, 2019, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a notice of proposed rulemaking requiring customs brokers to verify the identity of their importer clients, in particular non-resident importers.

After gradually easing sanctions on Burma since 2012 through the use of general licenses, the United States has formally lifted the economic and financial sanctions on Burma...

On July 1, 2026, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced that the United States, Mexico, and Canada failed to reach an agreement to renew the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”) in its current form following recent negotiations. Greer stated that “the United States did not agree to renew the USMCA in its current form.”

On July 26, 2023, the Department of Justice ("DOJ"), the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security ("BIS"), and the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control...

For many contractors within the Defense Industrial Base, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) assessments are becoming far more than cybersecurity hygiene exercises.

The table below presents a structured timeline of executive actions, policy directives, and trade-related decisions issued by President Trump's administration from January 2025 to the present.

On April 2, 2026, the one-year anniversary of President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcement1, the administration published two new presidential actions related to tariffs under Section 232...

On April 17, 2024, the United States Trade Representative ("USTR") initiated an investigation pursuant to Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 ("Section 301") regarding China's acts, policies...

On February 24, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 ("TFTEA") was signed into law by President Obama.

On April 29, the Trump administration published two actions, an Executive Order (EO) and a Proclamation, announcing amendments to the current convoluted tariff situation.

Yesterday the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls published an update to its operations as follows:

On April 24, 2018, FLIR Systems, Inc. entered into a consent agreement with the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls for alleged violations of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.

On March 8, 2018, President Trump announced his final decision on the implementation of steel and aluminum tariffs, citing national security concerns.

On December 31, 2017 the Generalized System of Preferences ("GSP") trade program expired after Congress failed to reauthorize the program.

On July 6, 2021, the U.S. Government published a notice of proposed rulemaking and request for comments on an amendment to the Code of Federal Regulations ("CFR")...

March 2024 was a busy month for U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP" or "Customs") with respect to the Enforce and Protect Act ("EAPA")...

On September 29, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security ("BIS") unveiled the "Affiliates Rule,"...