Webcast: U.S. Tariff Policy: Navigating Uncharted Waters

Client Alert  |  August 8, 2025

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The current flurry of tariff bulletins from the Trump Administration has additional roiled the already unsure commerce surroundings dealing with international locations and firms all over the world. These new tariffs are set towards the backdrop of more and more sophisticated relationships between Washington and different states and continued doubts of the legality of most of the President’s tariffs. Join Gibson Dunn consultants — together with former senior commerce officers — to debate the most recent bulletins, what we all know and don’t know, what we would anticipate going ahead, and the way world corporates can finest navigate the uncertainties.

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PANELISTS:

Ron Kirk is Senior Of Counsel in Gibson Dunn’s Dallas and Washington, D.C. places of work. He is Leader of the International Trade Advisory and Enforcement Practice Group and a member of the Sports Law, Public Policy, Crisis Management and Private Equity Practice Groups. Ambassador Kirk has had an intensive profession in Public Service. Prior to becoming a member of Gibson Dunn in April 2013, Ambassador Kirk served as United States Trade Representative (USTR) and was a member of President Obama’s Cabinet, serving because the President’s principal commerce advisor, negotiator and spokesperson on commerce points. He additionally served as Mayor of Dallas from 1995 – 2001, and as Texas Secretary of State in 1994 appointed by Gov. Ann W. Richards.

Adam M. Smith is a associate within the Washington, D.C. workplace of Gibson Dunn and serves as co-chair of the agency’s International Trade Advisory and Enforcement and Sanctions and Export Enforcement Practice Groups. He is an skilled worldwide lawyer with a give attention to worldwide commerce compliance and white collar investigations, together with federal and state financial sanctions enforcement, tariffs, CFIUS, embargoes, export and import controls, and anti-bribery/anti-corruption laws. Clients profit from Adam’s expertise within the Obama Administration, the place he was Senior Advisor to the Director of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Director for Multilateral Affairs on the National Security Council. At OFAC, he was instrumental in shaping and implementing sanctions insurance policies, briefing congressional and personal sector leaders, conducting in depth worldwide outreach, and negotiating advanced agreements. On the National Security Council, he suggested the President on worldwide sanctions, coordinated inter-agency efforts, and developed methods to counter corruption and promote asset restoration.

Samantha Sewall is of counsel within the Washington, D.C. workplace of Gibson Dunn and a member of the agency’s International Trade Advisory and Enforcement and Sanctions and Export Enforcement Practice Groups. She advises purchasers on compliance with U.S. authorized obligations on the intersection of world commerce, international coverage, and nationwide safety, focusing her apply on compliance with U.S. financial sanctions, export controls, nationwide safety evaluations of international direct funding (CFIUS), customs, and anti-boycott legal guidelines. Samantha has expertise advising firms throughout a variety of sectors together with aerospace, banking and monetary establishments, protection, vitality, medical units and prescribed drugs, transport, retail, telecommunications, and journey.

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