Tariff Resource Center

President Donald Trump announced new comprehensive tariffs in March and April 2025, which apply both geographically (via the International Emergency Economic Powers Act – IEEPA) and specific sectors (via Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act ). The measures affect transatlantic trade in numerous sectors, including automotive, energy products, and steel/aluminum.

This overview provides manufacturers and businesses with a compact basis for assessing developments, potential impacts on existing supply chains, and devising a strategy.

President Donald J. Trump Further Modifies the Reciprocal Tariff Rates

RESTRUCTURING GLOBAL TRADE TO BENEFIT AMERICAN WORKERS: July 31, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order modifying the reciprocal tariff rates for certain countries to further address our exploding, annual U.S. goods trade deficits. This decisive action reflects the President’s continued efforts to protect the United States against foreign threats to the national security and economy of the United States by securing fair, balanced, and reciprocal trade relationships to benefit American workers, farmers, and manufacturers and to strengthen the United States’ defense industrial base.

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Governor Pritzker Issues Executive Order Responding to Trump’s Tariffs on Illinois Economy

Monday, July 14 Governor JB Pritzker signed Executive Order 2025-03, directing state agencies to evaluate the scale and impact of how Trump’s tariffs will affect key economic sectors in and the increased costs that will be passed onto working families. The order comes as the Trump Administration continues to push a disastrous trade policy that exacerbates economic uncertainty for businesses, disrupts supply chains, and raises costs on everyday goods. 

President Donald Trump sent letters to 14 countries July 7, 2025 outlining higher tariffs they’ll face if they don’t make trade deals with the U.S. by Aug. 1.

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Executive Order Issued July 7, 2025

EXTENDING THE MODIFICATION OF THE RECIPROCAL TARIFF RATES

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2483), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code.

Read the Full Executive Order Here

United States Court of International Trade Decision May 28, 2025 (Paused)

On May 29, 2025 A federal appeals court has paused the May 28, 2025 ruling from the Court of International Trade that blocked President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

On May 28, 2025, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued a unanimous decision vacating and permanently enjoining enforcement of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The CIT found that the IEEPA Fentanyl and Reciprocal tariff actions are unlawful and exceeded IEEPA’s authority. First, the Court found that IEEPA does not provide for unlimited tariff authority and the Reciprocal tariffs lack any identifiable limits.  Indeed, the Court noted that the Constitution explicitly grants to Congress the power to impose tariffs and to regulate trade, and found that Congress did not (and could not under the Constitution) grant the President “unbounded …  authority to impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world.”  Second, the Court held, in particular,   that the Fentanyl actions do not “deal with” the stated objectives (a failure to thwart trafficking and other crime).  The text of IEEPA states that the President’s actions must “deal with an unusual and extraordinary threat with respect to which a national emergency has been declared . . . and may not be exercised for any other purpose.”  The Court found that President may not use IEEPA “to take whatever actions he chooses simply by declaring them ‘pressure’ or ‘leverage’ tactics that will elicit a third party’s response to an unconnected ‘threat.’”

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Executive Order Issued April 2, 2025

Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA), section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2483), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

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