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The Biden Administration Announces New U.S. Tariffs on Chinese Imports and Solar Products

Import and Trade Remedies

Another potential change is an increase to the tariff-rate quota threshold. 25% 2026 Natural graphite 0% 25% 2026 Certain critical minerals 0% 25% 2024 Permanent magnets 0% 25% 2024 Electric vehicles 25% 100% 2024 Facemasks 0-7.5% 25% 2024 Lithium-ion electrical vehicle batteries 7.5% 25% 2024 Medical gloves 7.5%

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Pentagon IG not impressed by effectiveness of DoD vendors’ award fees

Federal News Network

This month, CISA extended the charter through 2026 for the Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force. One change in the guidance reflects the April 2023 executive order that raises the monetary impact threshold to $200 million from $100 million. Survey responses are due by March 1. (

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DoD’s New Year Resolution: A Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Program (CMMC) Proposed Rule

Government Contracts Legal Forum

These requirements are expected to be included in all DoD solicitations valued above the micro-purchase threshold, except for procurements that are exclusively for commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items. DoD plans to include CMMC requirements in all applicable solicitations beginning October 1, 2026.

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Friday Flash 01/12/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

These requirements are expected to be included in all DoD solicitations valued above the micro-purchase threshold, except for procurements that are exclusively for commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items. DoD plans to include CMMC requirements in all applicable solicitations beginning October 1, 2026.

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Key Domestic Sourcing Provisions of the House and Senate Versions of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

Inside Government Contracts

Beginning in January 2026, an article, material, or supply is “manufactured substantially” in the United States if at least 65% of the cost of a shipbuilding component is attributed to materials mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States.

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Friday Flash 08/16/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

The new prices will be effective Jan 1, 2026. The proposed changes to the DFARS are primarily to: Add references to the CMMC 2.0 According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), “[t]hese selected drugs accounted for $56.2

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Navy’s journey to new procurement system remains in peril

Federal News Network

30, 2026, according to a 2020 memo from Kim Herring, the then-acting principal director of the Office of Defense Contract and Pricing. The Navy — along with the Army, the Air Force and the Fourth Estate agencies — is trying move off of the Standard Procurement System, developed in the 1990s.