China’s recently issued rare earth export controls were likely a response to the Commerce Department’s 50% rule for the Entity List and highlighted the ongoing communication issues between the two sides, said David Sacks, the White House’s AI policy adviser.

The increase in U.S. tariffs enacted by the Trump administration is likely to persist "for several more administrations," according to former White House Trade Adviser Kelly Ann Shaw.

The Drug Enforcement Administration is temporarily adding seven synthetic benzimidazole-opioid substances -- ethyleneoxynitazene, methylenedioxynitazene, 5-methyl etodesnitazene, N -desethyl etonitazene, N -desethyl protonitazene, N,N -dimethylamino etonitazene, and N -pyrrolidino isotonitazene etonitazene -- to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, it said in a notice. The listing takes effect Oct. 15, and will be in effect for up to three years.

President Donald Trump is suspicious of continuing a free-trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, according to a person who was a top trade official during the president's first term.

The addition of caustic soda as a high priority sector for forced labor enforcement through the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act represents an entirely new compliance challenge for importers because of its ubiquity and difficulty to trace, according to an Oct. 6 report by risk intelligence firm Kharon.

A new report from Rethink Trade, an anti-corporate trade nonprofit, says that while the USMCA's Rapid Response mechanism has helped tens of thousands of workers in Mexico, unions and Rethink Trade will push for changes to the mechanism in the USMCA review.

After China fought the U.S. to a draw, by throttling exports of rare earth magnets so that the U.S. dropped tariff levels and some export controls, former government officials, researchers and a businessman talked about what might come next.

The Department of Energy has issued a final rule rescinding and amending certification provisions, labeling requirements and enforcement provisions for specific types of consumer products and commercial and industrial equipment that were part of a final rule published Oct. 9, 2024, it said in a Federal Register notice.

Small shippers will "get hosed" by the end of the de minimis policy, while larger companies will find ways to manage, trade experts said on a podcast hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The U.S. Geological Survey is proposing to update its critical minerals list to include another six minerals.