The President has posted on Truth Social that Trade Talks with Mexico will be extended for 90 days.

The President stated that because of the complexities of a deal with Mexico, “We have agreed to extend, for a 90 day period, the exact same deal as we had for the last short period of time, namely that Mexico will continue to pay a 25% fentanyl tariff, 25% tariff on cars, and 50% tariff on steel, aluminum, and copper.”

For the next 90 days, trade with Mexico will continue as it has been.

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The President has issued an executive order “Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for All Countries” on July 30, 2025. This executive action falls under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

This order modifies previous orders from February and April and removes the provision for all counties effective August 29. This means that the low value $800 de minimis provision will no longer be available. Low value shipments will still be allowed; however, all shipments will be subject to duties either through formal consumption entry (type 01) or informal entry (type 11-for values less than $2500). The order also notes that CBP may require a bond on informal entries.

The orders also address goods shipped in the international postal system. These goods will have to pay either the applicable IEEPA reciprocal duty rate, or a per package fee based on a country’s IEEP reciprocal tariff. If the IEEPA reciprocal tariff is less than 16%, then the per package rate will be $80. If it is between 16-25%, the per package rate will be $160. If greater than 25%, then the rate will be $200. Note that the per package fee will only be available for the first 6 months. After that, the applicable IEEPA rate will be applied.

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The President has issued an executive order “Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Brazil” on July 30, 2025. This executive action falls under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

The order imposes an additional ad valorem duty rate of 40 percent. Note that the existing IEEPA reciprocal tariff will also apply to goods subject to the new rate bringing the total rate to 50%. This action shall be in addition to any other duties, fees, taxes, etc. applicable to such imports, unless subject to existing or future actions under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, in which case the duty imposed in this order shall not apply.

The ad valorem rate imposed in the order shall not apply to items listed in Annex I (includes a wide variety of goods such as silicon metal, pig iron, civil aircraft, Brazil nuts, orange juice, some energy products, wood pulps, certain paper, etc.) of the order or items excepted by 50 U.S.C. 1702 (b) – (i.e. postal, telegraphic, telephonic, or other personal communication, donations of food, clothing and medicine intended to relieve human suffering; merely informational materials; transactions ordinarily incident to travel to or from any country, including importation of accompanied baggage for personal use)).

The order provides an in-transit exception. Goods in transit that were loaded on to a vessel at the port of loading and in transit on the final mode of transit prior to 12:01 am EDT August 6, 2025, and were entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption before 12:01 am EDT on October 5, 2025, the tariff will not apply.

Products admitted to an FTZ after 12:01 am EDT on August 6, must be admitted as privileged foreign status. Retaliation to this order could result in increased or expanded scope. There is no express prohibition to claiming duty drawback on these tariffs.

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The President has issued a Proclamation “Adjusting Imports of Copper into the United States” on July 30, 2025. This proclamation falls under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.

This proclamation imposes 50% tariffs on imports of semi-finished copper and intensive copper derivative products. The proclamation includes an Annex that helps define the full scope.

The rate of 50% will be applied in addition to other duties, fees, etc. applicable to imported goods. The 50% tariff will be assessed on the value of the copper content in a product and the non-copper content will be subject to the IEEPA reciprocal tariff or other duties such as IEEPA drug/border tariffs or section 301 tariffs on China etc.

The 50% tariff shall not apply to products subject to the auto/auto parts section 232 tariffs.

These tariffs will be effective for goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 am EDT August 1, 2025.

Products admitted to an FTZ after 12:01 am EDT on August 1, must be admitted in Privileged Foreign Status. Duty drawback is prohibited on goods subject to this provision.

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Customs and Border Protection has announced an increase to the Merchandise Processing Fee assessed on imported goods. The increase is effective on October 1, 2025.

CSMS message 65741993 gives the details of the adjustments. For standard entry types, MPF is assessed at 0.3464% ad valorem with minimums and maximums. The minimum will be adjusted from the current $32.71 to $33.58. The maximum will be adjusted from $634.62 to $651.50.

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The President has announced a trade deal with the European Union.

Some of the terms of the deal are that the EU will purchase $750 billion worth of US energy, invest 600 billion in the US, and buy more US military equipment.

Additionally, the EU will lower the tariff on US origin goods to 0% and the US will impose 15% instead of the original 30% that was expected.

Steel and aluminum will remain at 50% for EU origin products under Section 232.

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In a White House Fact Sheet, the Indonesia deal is outlined. Under this deal with Indonesia, the reciprocal tariff will be 19%. Other key terms include eliminating tariff barriers, breaking down non-tariff barriers for US industrial exports, US agricultural exports, and more. Additional details are in the fact sheet linked below.

In a Truth Social Post, the President has indicated that a deal has been made with Japan. According to the post, the deal includes Japan investing in the US, Japan opening their country to trade including cars and trucks, rice and other ag products etc. The reciprocal rate under this deal will be 15%. The full Truth Social post is linked below.

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Dear Valued Client,

The President has announced on Truth Social with a letter to Canada that effective August 1, 2025, Canada will face a 35% tariff. The letter also advises that goods transshipped to avoid the higher tariff will be subject to a higher tariff.

So far, the Administration has sent letters to 25 countries all effective August 1.  Here are the countries:

Japan (25%)

Korea (25%)

South Africa (30%)

Kazakhstan (25%)

Laos (40%)

Malaysia (25%)

Myanmar (40%)

Tunisia (25%)

Bosnia and Herzegovina (30%)

Indonesia (32%)

Bangladesh (35%)

Serbia (35%)

Cambodia (36%)

Thailand (36%)

Brazil (50%)

Algeria (30%)

Iraq (30%)

Libya (30%)

Sri Lanka (30%)

Brunei (25%)

Moldova (25%)

South Korea (25%)

Philippines (20%)

Canada (35%)

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Dear Valued Client,

The President has announced on Truth Social that effective August 1, 2025, there will be a 50% tariff assessed on copper imports. The President states that copper is the second most used material by the Department of Defense.

The Administration ordered a Section 232 investigation on copper back in February. The President notes in his post that he has received robust National Security Assessment which results in the copper tariff announcement.

At this time, there is no official Executive Order addressing the copper tariffs.

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Dear Valued Client,

On July 7, the administration has notified several different countries including Japan and South Korea of their new reciprocal tariffs that are expected to be applicable as of August 1. These letters are related to the reciprocal tariffs from the April 2 Executive Order 14257 that were paused starting on April 9.  

Additionally, the President has signed an executive order extending the 10% reciprocal tariff to continue until at least August 1.

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Dear Valued Client,

The President has posted on Truth Social that a deal has been made with Vietnam. The preliminary details indicate that Vietnam will be subject to 20% tariff on goods sent directly to the US and 40% on goods transshipping. The President’s post indicates that Vietnam will open their markets to the United States.

Currently this has only been posted on social media. It is not an official announcement.

Additional updates will follow once they are available.

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On June 4, the Court of International Trade determined that IEEPA does not give the President authority to impose reciprocal or drug/border tariffs. The administration immediately filed an appeal and requested a stay.

On June 10, the Court of Appeals Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued the stay which means that for the time being, the IEEPA tariffs will remain while the courts litigate on this matter.

Oral arguments are scheduled for July 31 and a final decision from CAFC is not expected until at least August.  

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Items falling under Section 232 have had some updates in June. In a Federal Register Notice dated June 23, the Commerce Department added a variety of home appliances with steel content. These items will now be subject to 50% on the steel content effective June 23.

Additionally, CBP issued instructions in CSMS message 65340246 on reporting of unknown country of smelt and cast for aluminum. Effective June 28, 2025, for imports of derivative aluminum subject to Section 232, if the importer does not know the country of smelt and/or cast, then “unknown” will be reported. Note that when “unknown” is reported, importers will be assessed the 200% Section 232 duties.

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