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Sep 23, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Stephan Becker |Nancy Fischer |Moushami P. Joshi
On September 13, 2024 USTR announced modifications to the tariffs originally imposed under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to pressure China to eliminate unreasonable policies and practices related to technology transfer and intellectual property protection. The changes reflect a comprehensive review of the duties required by statute. USTR’s announcement follows its May 14, 2024 report on the four-year anniversary review of the Section 301 tariffs.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
globaltradeandsanctionslaw.com | Nancy Fischer |Stephan Becker |Moushami P. Joshi
On September 13, 2024 USTR announced modifications to the tariffs originally imposed under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to pressure China to eliminate unreasonable policies and practices related to technology transfer and intellectual property protection. The changes reflect a comprehensive review of the duties required by statute. USTR’s announcement follows its May 14, 2024 report on the four-year anniversary review of the Section 301 tariffs.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Stephan Becker |Samantha Franks |Moushami P. Joshi
On September 12, 2024, the Biden Administration announced a number of new trade-related measures related to imports of Chinese-manufactured goods. This announcement comes as the latest action in the Biden Administration’s efforts to reinforce American manufacturing and supply chains.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
globaltradeandsanctionslaw.com | Stephan Becker |Moushami P. Joshi |Samantha Franks
On September 12, 2024, the Biden Administration announced a number of new trade-related measures related to imports of Chinese-manufactured goods. This announcement comes as the latest action in the Biden Administration’s efforts to reinforce American manufacturing and supply chains.
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May 28, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Stephan Becker |Benjamin Cote |Moushami P. Joshi
TAKEAWAYS On May 22, USTR followed up the recommendations in its March 14 report with specific proposals for increases in Section 301 tariffs. There will be an exclusion process allowing interested parties to request temporary exclusions for certain categories of machinery used in domestic manufacturing, but no more general exclusion request procedure was announced. USTR has requested comments from interested stakeholders by June 28, 2024.
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May 24, 2024 | 
globaltradeandsanctionslaw.com | Stephan Becker |Benjamin Cote |Moushami P. Joshi |Erin Kwiatkowski
On May 14, 2024, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) published the Four-Year Review of Actions Taken in the Section 301 Investigation (“Report”), which addresses the four-year review of China-related tariffs under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (“Trade Act”) (19 U.S.C. 2411). Our previous alert on this report is available here.
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May 15, 2024 | 
globaltradeandsanctionslaw.com | Stephan Becker |Aaron Hutman |Benjamin Cote |Moushami P. Joshi
On May 14, 2024, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) published the Four-Year Review of Actions Taken in the Section 301 Investigation (“Report”), which addresses the four-year review of China-related tariffs under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (“Trade Act”) (19 U.S.C. 2411). Our previous alert on the 2018 Section 301 Investigation findings is available here.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Nancy Fischer |Samantha Franks |Moushami P. Joshi
This past year saw a continued trend in building supply chain resiliency, as this topic has grown increasingly important following Covid-19, the conflict in Ukraine, shifting landscape on tariffs, forced labor concerns and a number of other factors. Increasingly, supply chains are having to respond to policy concerns requiring shifting production away from China, either through onshoring or friend shoring as a means of strengthening US national and economic security interests.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
globaltradeandsanctionslaw.com | Nancy Fischer |Matthew Rabinowitz |Moushami P. Joshi |Samantha Franks
This past year saw a continued trend in building supply chain resiliency, as this topic has grown increasingly important following Covid-19, the conflict in Ukraine, shifting landscape on tariffs, forced labor concerns and a number of other factors. Increasingly, supply chains are having to respond to policy concerns requiring shifting production away from China, either through onshoring or friend shoring as a means of strengthening US national and economic security interests.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Nancy Fischer |Aimee Ghosh |Moushami P. Joshi
The CHIPS R&D Office is advancing innovation and creating opportunities across industry. TAKEAWAYS $11 billion has been appropriated to the CHIPS Research and Development Office to advance research and development of semiconductor technologies by addressing major challenges facing the industry in collaboration with fabless semiconductor companies, among others.
