Situation Reports

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to partially lift sanctions on Syria, the White House announced on June 30.

Indonesia announced it will ease import restrictions on over 300 goods categories -- including plastics, chemicals, fertilizers and forestry products -- rolled out under 2023 trade protection rules in a partial reversal of its protectionist measures, Reuters reported on June 30.

Cameroon's long-serving Tourism Minister and former Prime Minister Bello Bouba Maigari, president of the National Union for Democracy and Progress, entered the country's 2025 presidential race without resigning from his Cabinet position, becoming the second senior northern ally of President Paul Biya to do so in recent days, Reuters reported on June 30.

U.S. Republican senators agreed on June 29 to reduce the attempted moratorium on state artificial intelligence regulations from 10 years to five years, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said in a statement.

Philippine military leaders, in tandem with the United States and Japan, are operationalizing a "one-theater" concept to unify defense planning across the East and South China seas, which Japan and the Philippines, respectively, dispute with China, Reuters reported on June 30.

The spending and tax bill drafted by Senate Republicans, which may be passed as early as July 2, added several provisions, including a new 30% or 50% tax on solar and wind projects coming online after 2027 that include any material assistance from a foreign prohibited entity.

Key provisions of the May U.S.-UK Economic Prosperity Deal -- covering tariff reductions on cars, aircraft engines and aerospace parts -- officially took effect on June 30, the United Kingdom confirmed in a press release the same day.

Canada will not collect its digital services tax on June 30 and will introduce legislation to formally rescind the Digital Services Tax Act to advance trade talks with the United States, Canada's Department of Finance said in a June 29 press release.

Ukraine's government announced on June 29 that overnight, Russia had launched what Kyiv described as its biggest air attack since the beginning of the war in February 2022, The Kyiv Independent reported the same day.

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a June 27 Truth Social post that the United States would immediately terminate all trade talks with Canada and impose new tariffs on Canadian goods within the next seven days due to Canada's digital services tax going into effect.