Executive orders, proclamations, memoranda, determinations, and other instruments — filter by administration, type, and theme.
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This executive order increases the additional ad valorem tariff rate on certain Canadian goods from 25% to 35%, effective August 1, 2025, citing Canadian retaliation and inadequate cooperation on fentanyl interdiction. It also establishes a 40% penalty rate for transshipped goods evading duties and mandates semi-annual publication of circumvention facility lists.
Executive Order 14326 modifies reciprocal tariff rates imposed under EO 14257, replacing country-specific additional ad valorem duties with new rates in Annex I effective August 7, 2025. The order creates a 15% combined duty floor for EU goods, maintains a 10% default rate for unlisted partners, imposes a 40% transshipment penalty, and requires biannual publication of circumvention facility lists.
This executive order revokes EO 13824 (2018) and amends EO 13265 (2002) to reestablish the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition and the Presidential Fitness Test. It creates a 30-member advisory council to recommend strategies for youth fitness testing, school-based programs, and addressing health trends linked to military readiness, with HHS providing administrative support and the Secretary of HHS administering the fitness test alongside the Secretary of Education.
This proclamation imposes a 50 percent tariff on semi-finished copper products and intensive copper derivative products effective August 1, 2025, following a Section 232 national security investigation. It also establishes processes for expanding tariffs to additional copper derivatives, mandates strict CBP compliance for copper content declarations, and delegates authority for potential future domestic sales requirements under the Defense Production Act.
Executive Order 14323 declares a national emergency over actions by the Brazilian government, citing interference with U.S. companies, censorship demands on U.S. social media platforms, and political persecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro. The order imposes a 40 percent additional ad valorem tariff on Brazilian imports effective August 6, 2025, with certain exceptions and a transit grace period through October 5, 2025. The Secretary of State is delegated broad IEEPA authorities and directed to monitor the situation and coordinate with other senior officials on potential modifications or additional actions.
This executive order globally suspends the $800 duty-free de minimis exemption for all countries, effective August 29, 2025. All non-postal shipments must now enter through formal customs channels with applicable duties; international postal shipments face new per-package flat duties ($80-$200) or ad valorem IEEPA tariff rates, with the flat-rate option expiring after 6 months.
President continues for one year the national emergency with respect to Lebanon originally declared in 2007 under Executive Order 13441, citing ongoing Iranian arms transfers to Hezbollah and threats to Lebanese sovereignty as continued justification. The continuation extends sanctions and emergency authorities beyond their August 1, 2025 expiration date.
This executive order redirects federal homelessness policy toward civil commitment, institutional treatment, and enforcement-based approaches. It directs multiple agencies to prioritize grants to jurisdictions that ban urban camping and drug use, reverses "housing first" and harm reduction policies, and seeks to roll back judicial precedents and consent decrees that limit civil commitment of mentally ill homeless individuals.
This executive order seeks to preserve college sports by directing federal agencies to curb third-party pay-for-play payments to athletes, protect non-revenue and women's sports through scholarship and roster requirements, and shield collegiate athletics from antitrust litigation. It mandates plans from the Education Secretary, Attorney General, and FTC within 30-60 days to advance these goals using regulatory, enforcement, and litigation mechanisms.
This executive order accelerates federal permitting for large-scale AI data center infrastructure by streamlining environmental reviews, expanding FAST-41 coverage, making federal lands available, and creating financial support mechanisms for qualifying projects exceeding $500 million or 100 MW of load. It revokes the prior administration's EO 14141 on AI infrastructure and directs multiple agencies to establish new categorical exclusions, programmatic consultations, and expedited permitting pathways.
This executive order directs federal agencies to procure large language models (LLMs) only from vendors that adhere to two "Unbiased AI Principles": truth-seeking and ideological neutrality, specifically prohibiting DEI-related content manipulation. The order requires OMB to issue implementation guidance within 120 days, after which agencies must revise procurement contracts and adopt compliance procedures within 90 days.
This executive order establishes the American AI Exports Program to promote global deployment of U.S.-origin AI technologies through industry-led consortia offering full-stack packages (hardware, cloud, models, applications). It mobilizes federal financing tools including loans, equity investments, and diplomatic coordination to counter adversary AI influence and extend American technological leadership.
This notice continues for one year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13882 regarding the situation in Mali, citing ongoing threats including coups, terrorist expansion, drug and human trafficking, foreign mercenaries, and attacks on civilians and international forces. The continuation extends the emergency authority beyond its scheduled July 26, 2025 expiration date.
This notice continues for one year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13581 (July 24, 2011) regarding significant transnational criminal organizations, as amended by Executive Order 13863 (March 15, 2019). The continuation extends emergency authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act beyond their scheduled expiration of July 24, 2025.
This proclamation grants a two-year exemption (July 8, 2027 to July 8, 2029) from stricter EPA mercury and air toxics standards for certain coal-fired power plants, keeping them under pre-2024 MATS rules instead. The President determined the required emissions-control technology is not commercially viable and that compliance would threaten grid reliability, jobs, and national security.
This proclamation grants a 2-year exemption from certain EPA emissions-control requirements (the HON Rule) for specific chemical manufacturing facilities, citing national security interests and lack of commercially viable compliance technology. The exemption extends all HON Rule compliance deadlines by 2 years for stationary sources listed in Annex I, returning them to pre-HON Rule obligations during that period.
This Proclamation grants a 2-year exemption from EPA emissions-control requirements for taconite iron ore processing facilities subject to the March 2024 Taconite Rule. The exemption extends all compliance deadlines by 2 years, preserving existing pre-rule standards during that period, based on findings that required technology is not commercially available and that strict deadlines would threaten national security by risking facility shutdowns.
This proclamation grants a 2-year exemption from EPA ethylene oxide (EtO) emissions-control requirements for certain commercial sterilization facilities, extending all compliance deadlines under the April 2024 EtO Rule. The President determines that required emissions-control technology is not commercially viable and that the existing compliance timeline threatens national security by risking closure of facilities that sterilize roughly half of all U.S. medical devices.
This executive order creates a new Schedule G in the federal excepted service for noncareer policy-making or policy-advocating positions that normally change with presidential transitions. It amends Civil Service Rule VI to add Schedule G alongside existing schedules (A, B, C, D, E, and Policy/Career), and specifically directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to consider whether appointees would be suitable exponents of the President's policies while prohibiting consideration of political affiliation.
This notice continues for one year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14078 regarding hostage-taking and wrongful detention of U.S. nationals abroad, extending authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act beyond their July 19, 2025 expiration date.
This memorandum revokes Presidential Policy Directive-6 (PPD-6), the 2010 Obama-era policy on U.S. Global Development Policy, on grounds that it conflicts with the current administration's executive orders on America First foreign policy, WHO withdrawal, international environmental agreements, and foreign aid realignment. The revocation directs a broad set of cabinet officials and agency heads but imposes no new affirmative mandates or deadlines.
This notice extends an existing national emergency declaration at the southern border by invoking 10 U.S.C. 12302 for the Secretary of Homeland Security, specifically authorizing recall of Coast Guard Ready Reserve members to support maritime border security. The action builds on Proclamation 10886 from January 20, 2025, which originally invoked the same statute for military department secretaries.
The President continues for one year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13936 regarding Hong Kong, citing ongoing threats to U.S. national security, foreign policy, and economy from actions by the People's Republic of China that undermine Hong Kong's autonomy. The continuation extends the emergency authority beyond its July 14, 2025 expiration date.
This presidential order, issued under the Defense Production Act's CFIUS authority, prohibits the 2020 acquisition of Jupiter Systems by Chinese-owned Suirui International and mandates complete divestment within 120 days. The order requires destruction or transfer of intellectual property and source code, imposes strict access controls during the divestment period, and subjects the transaction to ongoing CFIUS oversight and verification.
This executive order directs the Treasury and Interior Departments to terminate clean-energy tax credits for wind and solar projects and to eliminate regulatory preferences for those sources over dispatchable energy. It builds on the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' by imposing strict enforcement of Foreign Entity of Concern restrictions and tightening 'beginning of construction' rules to prevent eligibility gaming.
This executive order extends for 22 days the temporary suspension of higher reciprocal tariff rates on most trading partners, maintaining a reduced 10% ad valorem duty rate from July 9 to August 1, 2025. The order leaves unchanged the separate tariff arrangements with China established under a prior order.
This executive order establishes the President's Make America Beautiful Again Commission, chaired by the Secretary of the Interior, to advise on conservation policy, expand public lands access for recreation and hunting, reduce regulatory barriers, and address deferred maintenance in national parks and forests. The Commission includes Cabinet secretaries and senior White House officials but has no independent enforcement authority and is subject to appropriations.
This executive order directs the Interior Secretary to increase national park entrance fees for foreign tourists while improving affordability and access for U.S. residents, revokes a 2017 Obama-era diversity and inclusion memorandum for public lands, and mandates review of recreational access rules with preferential treatment for American residents. It also requires full implementation of the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund and scrutiny of prior administration restrictions.