Trade and Tariffs in the Trump Administration: Policies, Impacts, and Future Outlook
Join us for an insightful webinar exploring the trade policies and tariff strategies envisioned by the Trump administration.
Thursday, January 9th, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET
This session will provide an in-depth analysis of the administration's approach to reshaping global trade dynamics, including its use of tariffs to address trade imbalances, protect domestic industries, and challenge unfair practices.
Key topics will include:
- The impact of tariffs on U.S. industries, consumers, and global supply chains;
- Key trade agreements, renegotiations, and disputes during the Trump era; and
- The long-term implications for U.S. trade relations and the global economy.
Our experts will offer diverse perspectives on these issues and discuss lessons for policymakers and businesses moving forward.
Speakers will include:
- Patricia Paoletta, Partner, HWG
- Kent Bressie, Partner, HWG
Who Should Attend: This webinar is important for all members who import and/or export; source raw materials, parts and components, or finished goods from international markets; and those with global supply chains. It is also valuable for anyone interested in understanding how trade and tariffs shape the global economy.
Cost: Free
Featured Speakers:
Patricia (Tricia) Paoletta
Partner, HWG
Patricia (Tricia) Paoletta focuses her practice on digital infrastructure, trade and technology policy. Recognized in Best Lawyers, Tricia provides advice on regulatory, trade and legislative policy to clients before the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC), Congress and the Administration. Her clients include providers of digital infrastructure, including mobile broadband, satellite, cloud, submarine cable and drones. She advises providers of broadband services on regulatory compliance and policy
issues facing emerging technology, like Artificial Intelligence or A.I.
Tricia has accrued considerable experience with digital infrastructure trade and policy in the public sector. She was senior advisor to the FCC’s International
Bureau Chief and Office Director. Patricia subsequently served as Director of Telecommunications Trade Policy in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President, where she worked on both multilateral and bilateral agreements
impacting digital trade. After USTR, Patricia served as Majority Counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. She then moved to a leading digital infrastructure provider, as Vice President, Government Relations.
Tricia served as
chair of the FCC’s Advisory Committee for the 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-23). She has served as a delegate to numerous meetings at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU); including WRC-23 and CITEL (the Committee
on International Telecommunications at the Organization of American States) PCC-II. Tricia has secured licenses for several international providers, negotiating with the various security agencies to obtain mutually-agreeable entry conditions, and
provides regulatory and compliance advice to those licensees.
Tricia is on the Pacific Telecommunications Council’s Advisory Council. She is also a member of the USTR Alumni Association, Washington International Trade Association,
the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA), Women’s Foreign Policy Group, and Women in Technology. Tricia has been on the Board of Advisors for the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Telecom Advisor, Co-Chair of the American
Bar Association International Communications Committee, and served as a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Technology Policy Committee. She was also on the Steering Committee of the Transatlantic Roundtable on Telecommunications and Information
Technology of the European Institute.
Tricia has served as the Chair of the FCC’s National Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC) Steering Committee and as a Board Member for the Voice on the Net Coalition. She has had multiple
leadership roles in the Federal Communications Bar Association, including as Co-Chair of the FCBA’s Annual Seminar Committee; as a member of the FCBA’s Ad Hoc Speakers Committee; as Co-Chair for the FCBA International Practice Committee;
and as a Co-Chair of the FCBA Legislative Practice Committee and serves as a panelist occasionally for FCBA’s Committees.
Kent Bressie
Partner, HWG
Kent Bressie is chair of HWG’s international practice and a recognized leader in telecommunications, international trade and investment, and national security regulation law. Kent represents communications and technology companies and investors
in a wide variety of cross-border and domestic regulatory and commercial matters.
Undersea Cables. Kent works extensively in the undersea cable sector and represents operators, suppliers, and investors to address the critical
issues they face, including: national security and foreign investment; telecoms licensing; corporate and commercial agreements for construction and maintenance, capacity sales, system supply, landings, and financing; environmental permit ting; market
access; and the law of the sea.
Foreign Investment, National Security, and Cybersecurity. Kent represents investors and business owners in a wide range of defense and critical infrastructure businesses to obtain foreign investment approvals
from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) under the Defense Production Act and, with respect to FCC-regulated business, the Team Telecom agencies. He has negotiated dozens of security mitigation arrangements
with CFIUS and Team Telecom. He advises network and data center operators on cybersecurity, wiretapping, surveillance, and related policy issues under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (“CALEA”), the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (“FISA”), and the USA PATRIOT Act. He represents companies to obtain and maintain security clearances for work on classified contracts and negotiates agreements with the Defense Security Service to mitigate foreign ownership,
control, or influence (“FOCI”).
Supply Chain Security, Data Security and Internet of Things (“IoT”). Kent advises equipment manufacturers, technology companies, and service providers to address supply chain security
requirements imposed through the FCC’s Covered List, statutory government procurement restrictions, IoT cybersecurity, and restrictions on exports of personal data from the United States.
Communications Regulation, Licensing, and
Transactions. Kent represents network operators, service providers, and software and equipment manufacturers in policy, licensing, and environmental matters before a variety of regulators and policymakers—including the FCC; the Departments of
State, Commerce, and Defense; state and territorial regulators; the International Telecommunication Union; and numerous foreign regulators (particularly in the Pacific and Caribbean regions)—to enable new network infrastructure, emerging technologies,
mergers and acquisitions, and financing arrangements.
Export Controls and Economic Sanctions. Kent counsels companies regarding compliance with U.S. and multilateral economic sanctions and export controls, and represents them before the
Departments of the Treasury (OFAC), Commerce (BIS), State (DDTC), and Defense to obtain licenses necessary to consummate investment, financial, and export transactions.
Trade Policy and Market Access. Kent represents companies before the
U.S. Trade Representative and foreign governments in World Trade Organization (“WTO”) matters, market access disputes (including disputes over goods, services, investment, and government procurement), and bilateral and regional trade negotiations.
Public International Law, Law of the Sea, and Maritime Law. Kent represents ICPC and companies in a variety of public international law and treaty matters, particularly those involving jurisdictional disputes among sovereign states and the
law of the sea. He has long represented undersea cable operators regarding treaty protections, environmental regulation, and cable damage disputes, and mobile carriers regarding the provision of international roaming and cruise ship-based services.
Kent is a member of the District of Columbia and New York Bars, the International Law Association (Member of the Committee on Submarine Cables and Pipelines), the American Society of International Law (Assistant Treasurer, 2003-2006), and
the Federal Communications Bar Association (Co-Chair, International Communications Committee, 2017-2018, and Co-Chair, Global Telecommunications Development Committee, 2000-2003).
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