Jordan Mallory

3 weeks ago | jdsupra.com | Julien Blanquart |J. Scott Maberry |Jordan Mallory

[co-author: Josephine Vacarie*]The second Trump administration has come flying out of the starting blocks on international trade policy actions—imposing and rescinding, shaping and reshaping tariffs, sanctions, and export controls. The executive orders and directives have come so thick and fast that it is not always simple for businesses to chart a consistent policy direction and develop their plans to account for what might be coming next.

1 month ago | mondaq.com | Jordan Mallory |Reid Whitten |Lisa C. Mays |Curtis M. Dombek

On April 2, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) imposing globalreciprocal tariffs (White House Fact Sheet). The EO drew enoughparallels to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act that Trump mentioned it in his Rose Garden announcement. The EO imposes a 10% baseline tariff on all imports to the UnitedStates beginning April 3, 2025. On top of that baseline, the EO also imposes country-by-countrytariffs reciprocal tariffs represented in the chart below.

Feb 4, 2025 | mondaq.com | Townsend L. Bourne |Jonathan Meyer |Jordan Mallory

On January 8, 2025, the Department of Justice ("DOJ") published its final rule addressing Executive Order (E.O.) 14117, "Preventing Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern." With the final rule, the DOJ National Security Division's Foreign Investment Review Section ("FIRS") defines prohibited and restricted data transactions, and outlines trusted data flows for companies with overseas operations involving countries of...

Jan 7, 2025 | openlegalblogarchive.org | Townsend L. Bourne |Nikole Snyder |Daniel Alvarado |Jordan Mallory |Daniel Alvarado

To kick off the New Year (and as is now tradition, since we put out a similar Recap & Forecast last year), Sheppard Mullin’s Governmental Practice Cybersecurity & Data Protection Team has prepared a cybersecurity-focused 2024 Recap (highlighting major updates and including links to the resources we put out over the past year) and a 2025 Forecast (previewing what we expect to see in 2025).

Nov 7, 2024 | mondaq.com | Townsend L. Bourne |Jordan Mallory

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