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Law360, London: The International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not give the president the ‘unbounded authority’ to impose tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world, the US Court of International Trade ruled on 29 May 2025, handing a win to small businesses and states challenging some of President Donald Trump's steep tariffs.

This week's edition of International Trade weekly highlights includes: Chinese biodiesel facing EU preliminary anti-dumping duties of up to 36.4%, TRA publishing Annual Report and Accounts 2023–24, WTO publishing 2024 Annual Report, and a weekly roundup of HMRC import, export and customs guidance.

This week's edition of International Trade weekly highlights includes: the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) announcing that legislation will be introduced on digital labelling of products, the European Commission adopting new EU-UK joint solution under Windsor Framework on tariff-rate quotas (TRQs), the UK Parliament holding the third reading of Trans-Pacific Trade Bill, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) urging for extension of the World Trade Organization (WTO) e-commerce moratorium ahead of expiry and a weekly roundup of HMRC import, export and customs guidance.

This week's edition of International Trade weekly highlights includes: the World Trade Organization (WTO) Chief Economist forecasting global trade decline amid rising tariffs, the WTO Dispute Settlement Body reviewing EU duties on Chinese battery electric vehicles, the EU initiating an appeal arbitration in Intellectual Property dispute case against China, Egypt initiating a safeguard investigation on hot rolled steel imports, MedTech Europe warning the European Commission about risks of medical import tariffs, the Trade Remedies Authority imposing provisional duties on Lithuanian and United Arab Emirates engine oil imports, the European Commission imposing definitive countervailing duties on Chinese imports of mobile access equipment, and weekly roundups of HMRC import, export and customs guidance.

This week's edition of International Trade weekly highlights includes: the European Commission imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on pea protein imports from China, the Commission initiating an anti-dumping proceeding concerning PVC imports, Pekin duck imports from China made subject to registration in an anti-dumping investigation, an EU anti-dumping proceeding concerning cellulose ethers from China and Korea published in the Official Journal, a notice of an impending expiry of anti-dumping measures on Indian ductile cast iron tubes and pipes published in the Official Journal, the World Trade Organization establishing a panel to review the EU carbon border mechanism and emissions scheme and New EU customs rules kicking in amid an e-commerce boom.

This week's edition of International Trade weekly highlights includes: Canada initiating dispute proceedings against the US over the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade violations, China requesting consultations over US trade measures, China launching a barrage of retaliatory measures against President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs, the Department for Business and Trade launching a consultation on US tariff response, the Council of the EU agreeing on cross-border enforcement of agrifood trading rules, the EU pharma bodies warning the US Commission of exodus risk and tariff impact, and a weekly roundup of HMRC import, export and customs guidance.

This week's edition of International Trade weekly highlights includes: the Home Office publishing updated EU-UK judicial co-operation notifications under the Trade and Co-operation Agreement.

This week's edition of International Trade weekly highlights includes: analysis on EU brandy exports facing China’s provisional dumping duties from 11 October 2024, the Trade Remedies Authority accepting recommendations to retain protections on ceramic tiles, UK commencing poultry exports to South Africa after a seven-year ban, UK Export Finance and Indonesia Eximbank signing a Memorandum of Understanding, the European Commission gaining EU support for tariffs on battery electric vehicles from China, and a weekly roundup of HMRC import, export and customs guidance.

This week's edition of International Trade weekly highlights includes: the European Commission welcoming Cambodia to the WTO appeal arrangement, the WTO reporting Madagascar’s initiation of a safeguard investigation into certain rice imports, the Council of the EU backing temporary trade-liberalisation measures for Armenian exports, EU tariffs on Chinese PSC wires and strands facing expiry review, EU trade measures on Chinese silicon subject to interim review, the Council of the EU approving a reform customs framework and the launch of the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2027.

This week's edition of International Trade weekly highlights includes the European Commission publishing the Regulation on imposing anti-dumping duty on imports of sweetcorn originating in Thailand in the Official Journal, the Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) publishing its 2024–2027 strategy to combat unfair trading practices and a weekly roundup of HMRC import, export and customs guidance.

This week's edition of International Trade weekly highlights includes: details of how to subscribe to our news alerts and this week’s new Practice Note titled ‘Temporary entry of business persons under the CPTPP’, which provides practical guidance on the temporary entry of business persons under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).