On September 4, President Trump issued an executive order to implement a trade agreement recently reached between the United States and Japan. The executive order memorializes a trade agreement announced by President Trump in July and provides some additional details on the terms of the agreement. The agreement introduces a general tariff framework where a baseline 15% tariff will apply to nearly all Japanese imports. If a product’s existing tariff is less than 15%, it…
On July 22, President Trump announced that the U.S. had struck a trade agreement with Japan. The announcement calls for a 15% tariff on Japanese goods imported into the U.S. In return, Japan will “open their Country to Trade including Cars and Trucks, Rice and certain other Agricultural Products, and other things.” Under President Trump’s reciprocal tariff package announced in April, Japanese goods would be subject to a 24% duty. The imposition of this tariff…
For the second week of our Annual Compliance Conference, we discussed key trade compliance issues impacting our clients globally. Specifically, we discussed the trade policy response of the US, EU and UK to ever increasing geopolitical disruption, global strategies for handling sanctions regulators and enforcement, and key global sanctions and export controls developments. Trade policy response to geopolitical disruption – China and beyond – Tuesday 7 May Speakers: Tristan Grimmer (Partner, London), Sylwia Lis (Partner,…