This week's episode (below) covers the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), which lays out the cybersecurity standards required of government contractors.

From time to time, companies may discover that they've violated export, economic sanctions, anti-corruption, or customs laws and must decide whether to self-disclose to the U.S. government agency that enforces the regulation in question.

From time to time, companies may discover that they've violated export, economic sanctions, anti-corruption, or customs laws and must decide whether to self-disclose to the U.S. government...

The Foreign Agents Registration Act, FARA, has been making headlines recently, as Washington seeks to crack down on foreign influence in the United States.

In the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. Government created the Department of Homeland Security to carry out a broad range of national security functions.

The debate between free trade and protectionism is alive and well, and perhaps fiercer than ever, in the United States and abroad.

This comprehensive tracker documents the Trump administration's extensive trade policy actions from January 2025 to August 2026, including tariff implementations under Section 232 and IEEPA, reciprocal trade agreements with multiple nations, export control modifications, economic sanctions targeting various countries, and enforcement priorities spanning customs compliance, forced labor prevention, and national security protections across maritime, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and critical mineral sectors.

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. It focuses on critical areas such as tariffs, economic sanctions (OFAC), the priorities of the Department of Justice, customs regulations, and broader trade and economic policies

In this week's episode, Host Donna Wedgeworth speaks with Anthony Saranchak, former U.S. Customs Assistant Field Director in Regulatory Audit, to discuss identity theft in U.S. importing and global supply chains ...

This week's episode covers the latest issues in cross-border trade between Texas and Mexico. Texas-based Customs Broker Adrian Gonzalez of Global Alliance Solutions helps break down the current state of supply chain disruptions, ...

In this week's episode, host Derrick Kyle is joined by Eric Hinton, the founding Director of the Robert B. Rowling Center for Business Law and Leadership at SMU Dedman School of Law...

This week's episode (below) looks at the U.S. government's enforcement of laws that combat forced labor in supply chains, including the newly passed Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act...

This week's episode looks at the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and trade relations between the United States, Mexico, and China. Emilio Arteaga, a partner at Mexican trade law firm Vazquez Tercero & Zepeda based out of Mexico City ...

Join Torres Law and NCBFAA for a webinar on Country of Origin & Foreign Trade Agreements on Wednesday, December 15, 2021, at 1-2pm ET.

In this week's episode, host Donald Pearce is joined by Dan Cohen, Founder and CEO of Flite Material Sciences, to discuss the discovery of innovative technologies, the field of technology transfer...

In this week's episode, the first of a two-part series, host Olga Torres sits down with Jim Fuller, former special agent, with the Office of Export Enforcement ("OEE") within the Bureau of Industry...

Developing and maintaining effective trade compliance training is an essential element to support a successful internal compliance program.

If your company has been negatively impacted by the Section 232 and Section 301 duties, you may now have another opportunity to voice your concerns in Washington.

During the podcast trade lawyers and subject matter expert guests discuss timely topics on trade and national security in an informal and informative setting.

On January 19, 2021, the U.S. Department of Commerce published an interim final rule, "Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain," which became effective on March 22, 2021.