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July 7, 2025

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The Trump administration will begin sending trading partners "letters" setting new tariff rates -- and giving them until Aug. 1 to negotiate deals and avoid the highest possible tariffs.

By Brett Fortnam

President Trump on Monday issued notices to the leaders of South Africa, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar and Kazakhstan, laying out new tariffs rates for goods from each of those countries beginning Aug. 1. 

By David LaRoss

The Court of International Trade is accelerating a challenge to President Trump’s termination of de minimis duty-free entry for low-value Chinese packages, with oral argument now set for July 10 after the Michigan-based auto parts importer behind the case warned that it faces an imminent shutdown without a swift decision.

By Margaret Spiegelman

Mexican tomato growers have made a confidential proposal to the Commerce Department asking the agency to address U.S. producer concerns by establishing a tariff-rate quota system instead of moving ahead on its plan to end a 2019 deal that suspended antidumping duties, according to a description of the proposal by a representative for a Mexican producer.

By Brett Fortnam

Domestic producers are urging the Commerce Department to take an expansive view of the range of products that could face Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum, while some business groups are warning that the process in place could subject goods that do not contain the primary metals to unnecessary compliance burdens.

By David LaRoss

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit will hear argument on the legality of President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs at the end of September -- nearly two months after another court will hold its own hearing in the parallel appeal of a Court of International Trade decision that declared the duties unlawful.

By Dan Dupont

The U.S. is developing a “template” for trade with Sub-Saharan African countries, prompting several to ask the Trump administration to extend a pause on steep new tariffs, according to the South African government.

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