There are probably five justices who will find that the reciprocal tariffs were not permissible under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act that the president used to impose them, according to Georgetown University Law Center Professor Marty Lederman. Lederman, a senior fellow in the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown, was one of two guests on the weekly Washington International Trade Association podcast that aired Nov. 7.
The U.S. is likely to commit to a full renegotiation of USMCA during the trade pact's upcoming sunset review and could even abandon the trilateral agreement in favor of individual ones, according to Miguel Messmacher, former chief economist at the Ministry of Finance of Mexico.
The U.S. Geological Survey will publish its 2025 list of critical minerals Nov. 7, according to a Federal Register notice.
The American Sheep Industry Association formally asked that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative initiate a safeguard investigation on lamb imports, the group announced last week. The trade group's request follows a request by two Utah members of the House in July for the same action (see 2507240058).
Although China agreed to temporarily suspend its sweeping rare earth export restrictions, the threat of those controls returning appears likely, said Jude Blanchette, director of the Rand China Research Center.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has rescheduled a public hearing on how USMCA has been working to Dec. 3 through Dec. 5. Each day will begin at 9 a.m. at the International Trade Commission's main hearing room. The hearing was originally scheduled for Nov. 17.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is soliciting comments on the one-year suspension of ship docking fees and logistics-related tariffs, such as on chassis from China. The fees and tariffs are in abeyance until Nov. 10, 2026.
Sens. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, introduced a bill to create an interagency working group to monitor imports of seasonal and perishable fruits and vegetables.
Bipartisan bills were introduced in both chambers of Congress to grant permanent normal trade relations to Central Asian countries covered by the Jackson-Vanik Act, a law that removes permanent normal trade relations for certain countries. The bill was introduced one day before presidents of the Central Asian countries visited the White House Nov. 6.
President Donald Trump continues to argue that the Supreme Court will rule that his emergency tariffs are constitutional, and that the promises of investments from South Korea, Japan and the EU would evaporate without the 15% tariffs he imposed on their exports.