Trade Tariffs

The U.S. government has launched a comprehensive investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, resulting in sweeping new tariffs, minimum import prices, and anti-surge restrictions on polysilicon and its derivative products. These measures, which take effect in phases between September 2026 and December 2026, establish different requirements for various trading partners and impose significant compliance obligations on manufacturers and importers in the renewable energy sector.

The LNG sector has emerged as a critical battleground for force majeure disputes, shaped by COVID-19, sanctions against Russia, and the Ukraine energy crisis.

In April 2024, we wrote about Turkey's newly introduced regulatory framework for electric vehicle ("EV") imports and questioned whether a regime requiring certain importers to establish their own (not through any third parties) service networks, operate a forty-person call centre and comply with additional certification and representation requirements could be reconciled with Turkey's international trade obligations1.

State attorneys general across the nation took significant enforcement actions during September 10-17, 2026, targeting deceptive business practices, consumer fraud schemes, and environmental policy violations. From multistate coalitions challenging federal rollbacks of endangered species protections to individual state actions against companies engaged in unlawful debt collection and false advertising...