In the face of a fast-changing and often unpredictable tariffs and trade environment, S&C’s multidisciplinary tariffs response team helps clients stay informed and plan their responses. With our deep experience in Foreign Investment and Trade Regulation, National Security, Litigation and Consumer & Retail, our tariffs response team provides integrated advice to industrial, consumer, manufacturing and financial industry clients. We advise on the full range of tariff- and trade-related issues, including supply chain risk and compliance, tariff strategy, cost mitigation, civil litigation and disputes. We also advise companies on tariff refunds, including by helping financial sector and other clients explore and navigate potential purchases, sales, lending, or borrowing related to tariff refund proceeds and associated rights and contracts. Our team has unique experience and insights on these issues, having served in judicial clerkships and other government roles at the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of International Trade, Department of Homeland Security, Department of State and Department of Justice.
Our team spearheaded and regularly updates S&C’s Tariffs Tracker, which has become a valuable resource for clients seeking to keep abreast of tariff and trade developments.
Our team includes lawyers adept at navigating the volatile legal environment surrounding U.S. tariffs and trade laws.
- Eric Kadel Jr., Co-Head of S&C’s Foreign Investment and Trade Regulation and Economic Sanctions and Financial Crime Groups
- Sharon Cohen Levin, Co-Head of S&C’s National Security Practice and a former head of the Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York
- Thomas White, Co-Head of S&C’s International Arbitration and Global Dispute Resolution Practice
- Andrew DeFilippis, a partner in S&C’s Litigation Group and a former senior member of the National Security and International Narcotics Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and former Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security
Representative Matters
- A domestic company in analyzing and mitigating the effects of the Trump administration’s tariffs, and in self-disclosing a potential historical compliance failure to U.S. agencies.
- A major international financial institution in analyzing the potential effects of U.S. tariffs on imported gold bars.
- A foreign shipping company in considering the effects of recently-imposed U.S. customs fees on Chinese-owned vessels and operators.
- A mining company in considering and responding to new U.S. tariffs on copper imports.
- An energy company in analyzing U.S. tariffs’ potential applicability to uranium imports.
- A foreign maritime company in considering SEC disclosure obligations arising from increased U.S. tariffs.
- Several investment firms and hedge funds in assessing opportunities and risks associated with the purchase and sale of rights to proceeds from potential tariff refunds, and related lending, borrowing, and other contracts.