Trump signs five more proclamations on Canadian imports.
Today's events
Canada trade proclamations.
Five proclamations bar Canadian cars, dairy and alcohol from importation and modify the product scope of July's duties; the alcohol order cites Saskatchewan's new 50 percent levy on U.S. drinks, effective September 8.1Sep 14 · Fed. Reg.Hydraulic cylinder case.
Commerce opened dumping investigations into linear hydraulic cylinders from Canada, China, India, South Korea and Mexico, with parallel subsidy petitions against China, India and Mexico, filed by the Hydraulic Cylinders Fair Trade Coalition.2Sep 14 · CommerceBiosafety rewrite.
The National Institutes of Health proposed a policy replacing its nearly 50-year-old recombinant-DNA guidelines, extending oversight to all biohazards while cutting requirements for low-risk work. Comments close October 19.3Sep 14 · NIHJet engine directive.
The Federal Aviation Administration proposed repeat borescope inspections and seal replacement on CFM International CFM56-5B, -5C and -7B engines after multiple reports of honeycomb separation from high-pressure-turbine seals.4Sep 14 · FAANepal floods.
State approved $1 million for forensic support to Nepal Police, taking total U.S. flood assistance past $5 million; FBI specialists are identifying victims and the U.S. military has delivered 5,000 recovery supplies.5Sep 12 · StateGaza force commander.
Maj. Gen. Jasper Jeffers handed U.S. Special Operations Command Central to Rear Adm. Thomas Donovan in Tampa on August 14 and is slated to command the International Stabilization Force supporting the Gaza peace plan.6Sep 14 · CENTCOMLead paint settlement.
Justice lodged a settlement requiring the estate of Harry D. Silverstein to pay a $4 million penalty for failing to disclose lead-based paint to tenants across fourteen New York residential buildings.7Sep 14 · DOJPipeline spill decree.
Belle Fourche Pipeline Company must carry out a remediation plan for the 2016 Ash Coulee Creek oil spill under a supplemental consent decree lodged in North Dakota federal court.8Sep 14 · DOJDuty review batch.
Commerce issued nine antidumping and subsidy determinations in one day, finding sales below normal value of honey from Argentina and Vietnam, brass rod from South Korea, quartz from India and glycine from Japan.9Sep 14 · Commerce
This week
Five Iranian tankers destroyed.
Central Command destroyed five Iranian crude carriers on September 8, four in the Gulf of Oman and one near Kharg Island, after Revolutionary Guard missiles twice missed a U.S. warship. Crews were ordered to abandon ship first. CENTCOM called the vessels part of a multibillion-dollar shadow network funding the Revolutionary Guard and its regional proxies, and said Iran had no means to defend them. Carried in the September 9 brief.1Sep 8 · CENTCOMIran's airlines and proxies designated.
State sanctioned 36 entities and individuals on September 8, covering the remainder of Iran’s active airlines and the third-country firms that procured aircraft and cargo services for Mahan Air. Treasury then suspended three Iran general licenses indefinitely on September 10, and State and Treasury sanctioned Hizballah and Kata’ib Hizballah the same week. Firms have until 12:01 a.m. on September 19 to wind down barred transactions.2Sep 8–11 · StateCanada moves from tariffs to bans.
Trump signed proclamations under Section 338 of the 1930 Tariff Act barring certain Canadian motor vehicles, dairy and alcoholic beverages from importation, effective September 29, and stripped $50 billion of Canadian goods from federal purchasing schedules. Five more proclamations followed on September 14, one citing Saskatchewan’s new 50 percent levy on U.S. drinks. The administration says Canada stopped negotiating in good faith on August 21.3Sep 9–14 · USTRChinese model distillation named.
The National Security Agency, CISA and the FBI said on September 8 that DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI extracted billions of tokens from U.S. frontier models including Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok, likely with Chinese government awareness. The advisory landed the same day Commerce finalized CHIPS research awards of up to $375 million to GlobalFoundries for a domestic quantum foundry and up to $100 million to PsiQuantum.4Sep 8 · CISAColombia minerals framework.
The secretary of state and Colombia’s foreign minister signed a critical-minerals and rare-earths supply framework plus a civil nuclear memorandum in Barranquilla on September 8, committing both governments to finance projects within six months. It was one of three resource-authority moves in four days: Trump signed a Defense Production Act determination on recoverable critical minerals on September 9, and Executive Order 14427 gave the Interior Secretary Defense Production Act authority over energy alongside the Energy Secretary.5Sep 8 · StateTerrorism removal court used.
The Justice Department removed an Afghan national who backed her son’s ISIS-inspired Election Day shooting plot on September 11, the first case ever heard by the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, which Congress created decades ago and no administration had invoked. The same week, the department filed its final four in-state tuition complaints, against Hawaii, the District of Columbia, Arkansas and Utah, closing a 25-suit campaign.6Sep 11 · DOJ
Allied Governments
Fusion partnership.
The United Kingdom and United States are signing two fusion agreements in London — a supercomputing partnership between the UK Atomic Energy Authority and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and a joint statement on fusion regulation.aSep 13 · UK FCDOJapan in Singapore.
Parliamentary Vice-Minister Onishi Yohei met Singapore's Minister of State Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim and closed the 19th Japan–Singapore Symposium, marking 60 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.bSep 14 · Japan MoFARemembrance rail travel.
Britain extended free National Rail travel to one next of kin of each service member who died in service, for Remembrance weekend on November 7 and 8; applications close October 16.cSep 12 · UK MoD
Voices
“Canada reneged on its commitment, ceased negotiating in good faith, and did not remove the discrimination or unreasonable and unequal imposition at issue in Proclamation 11046.”
Proclamation excluding Canadian alcoholic beverages · Sep 141
“As the world's largest public funder of biomedical research, the National Institutes of Health is committed to ensuring that gold-standard science is conducted under gold-standard biosafety conditions.”
Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards · Sep 143
“[I]t is not clear from the Petitions whether the industry support criteria have been met.”
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, initiation notice · Sep 142
“This proposed AD was prompted by multiple reports of honeycomb separation from the surface of HPT inner stationary seals.”
Federal Aviation Administration, proposed airworthiness directive · Sep 144
“This is a rapidly evolving operation, and we are working closely with our local partners on the ground to adapt to conditions as they change.”
U.S. Dept. of State, Office of the Spokesperson · Sep 125
“If I have to use an emotion to describe what I feel today, it is gratitude. These ceremonies aren't about the command; they are about the people.”
Maj. Gen. Jasper Jeffers, outgoing commander, U.S. Special Operations Command Central · Sep 146
Sources
- Federal Register, “Excluding Certain Canadian Products From Importation Into the United States in Response to Continued Discrimination Against the Commerce of the United States With Respect to Alcoholic Beverages” (one of five Canada proclamations published the same day), Sept. 14, 2026. federalregister.gov/documents/…/excluding-certain-canadian-products-alcoholic-beverages
- U.S. Dept. of Commerce, “Certain Linear Hydraulic Cylinders and Parts Thereof From Canada, the People's Republic of China, India, the Republic of Korea, and Mexico: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations,” Sept. 14, 2026. federalregister.gov/documents/…/linear-hydraulic-cylinders-initiation
- National Institutes of Health, “Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards,” Sept. 14, 2026. federalregister.gov/documents/…/draft-nih-biosafety-policy
- Federal Aviation Administration, proposed airworthiness directive for CFM International, S.A. Model CFM56-5B, CFM56-5C and CFM56-7B engines (RIN 2120-AA64), Sept. 14, 2026. federalregister.gov/documents/…/rin-2120-aa64
- U.S. Dept. of State, “United States Approves Additional Funding for the Nepal Floods Response,” Sept. 12, 2026. state.gov/releases/…/additional-funding-nepal-floods-response
- U.S. Central Command, “U.S. Special Operations Command Central Celebrates Transfer of Leadership,” Sept. 2026. centcom.mil/MEDIA/…/soccent-transfer-of-leadership
- U.S. Dept. of Justice, “Notice of Lodging of Proposed Stipulation and Order of Settlement Under the Toxic Substances Control Act” (United States v. Estate of Harry D. Silverstein), Sept. 14, 2026. federalregister.gov/documents/…/stipulation-and-order-of-settlement-tsca
- U.S. Dept. of Justice, “Notice of Lodging of Proposed Final Supplemental Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act” (United States and North Dakota v. Belle Fourche Pipeline Company), Sept. 14, 2026. federalregister.gov/documents/…/final-supplemental-consent-decree-clean-water-act
- U.S. Dept. of Commerce, “Raw Honey From Argentina: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025” (one of nine duty determinations published the same day), Sept. 14, 2026. federalregister.gov/documents/…/raw-honey-from-argentina-preliminary-results
- UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, “UK and US fusion strike partnership to accelerate clean energy,” Sept. 13, 2026. gov.uk/government/news/…/uk-and-us-fusion-strike-partnership
- Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs ONISHI's Visit to the Republic of Singapore,” Sept. 2026. mofa.go.jp/press/release/…/onishi-visit-to-singapore
- UK Ministry of Defence, “Free rail travel expanded to bereaved veteran families this Remembrance weekend,” Sept. 12, 2026. gov.uk/government/news/…/free-rail-travel-bereaved-veteran-families