On August 21, 2025, the European Union and United States unveiled their Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade (“Framework”). The Framework follows, and provides further detail to, the July announcement that the European Union and United States had agreed on broad terms of a trade deal. The Framework outlines the key terms of the trade deal that will be negotiated between the parties, and is a first step in a process…
The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced the formation of the Market, Government, and Consumer Fraud Unit (MGCF Unit). The MGCF will reportedly sit within the DOJ’s Fraud Section. Although the details of the MGCF Unit’s precise remit are still forthcoming, we expect the MGCF Unit will be empowered to pursue criminal investigations and prosecutions of tariff evasion techniques such as misclassifying or undervaluing goods, as well as transshipping goods to a different country and…
On June 17, the plaintiff-appellees in Learning Resources, Inc., et al v. Donald Trump, et al petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States for certiorari, asking the Court to consider the lawfulness of tariffs President Trump imposed under the putative authority of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). With the appeal currently pending before the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit), the petition takes the uncommon step of…
On May 12, 2025, the White House issued a wide-reaching Executive Order (“EO“) titled “Delivering Most Favored Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients” for the stated purpose of ensuring that American patients will have access to the most-favored-nation (“MFN“) price for prescription drugs and biologics.1 This EO came out about one month after the release of EO No. 14273 titled “Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First” (April 15, 2025) which outlined…
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