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On April 14, 2025, the Trump Administration issued two federal register notices scheduled to be published on April 16, 2025. The notices seek public comments following the April 1, 2025 initiation of investigations targeting...more
UPDATE (as of Feb. 3, 2025, at 5:00 PM ET): President Trump announced on TruthSocial an agreement with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada to “pause[] for a 30 day period” the announced tariffs while the U.S. government...more
On September 13, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released a Federal Register notice detailing final modifications to Section 301 tariffs on Chinese imports following its statutorily mandated four-year review. Key...more
The importing community received long-awaited clarity in plans for new Section 301 customs duties on Chinese goods this last Friday, September 13. The Office of the US Trade Representative ("USTR") released the final text of...more
Welcome to the August 2024 issue of “As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns,” our monthly newsletter where we compile essential updates from the customs and trade world over the past month. We bring you the most recent and...more
Importers must act swiftly to prepare for new Section 301 tariffs which can apply as soon as August 1, 2024, and for exclusions that expire as soon as June 14, 2024. As predicted in our recent alert USTR May Triple the...more
On May 14, 2024, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced expansions to tariffs under § 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 (§ 301) on imports from China, including tariff increases on currently covered...more
On May 22, 2024, the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced the publication of a Federal Register Notice (“the FRN”) setting forth additional and increased Section 301 tariffs for specific Harmonized Tariff...more
On May 22, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) issued a Federal Register notice that provides additional information on the new or increased tariffs on select Chinese-origin products that USTR previously...more
On January 3, 2023, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) announced in the Federal Register the opportunity to request an annual administrative review for products that are currently subject to antidumping and...more
On December 8, 2022, the Department of Commerce published its anti-circumvention preliminary determination with respect to the four Southeast Asian countries named above....more
On November 1, 2022, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) announced in the Federal Register the opportunity to request an annual administrative review for products that are currently subject to antidumping and...more
On August 2, 2022, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) announced in the Federal Register the opportunity to request an annual administrative review for products that are currently subject to antidumping and countervailing...more
On May 5, 2022, the U.S. International Trade Commission (the ITC) issued a draft Federal Register notice detailing the schedule for a new general fact-finding investigation into the economic impact of Section 232 and Section...more
On May 3, 2022, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced a process for considering the extension of the Section 301 tariffs against Chinese goods, pursuant to a provision of Section 301 of the Trade Act of...more
July 6, 2022, will mark the four-year anniversary of the institution of Section 301 tariffs against approximately $370 Billion in imports from China into the United States. In light of this anniversary, the Office of the...more
On March 23, 2022, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) published a Federal Register notice reinstating tariff exclusions for 352 categories of products covered by the United States’ Section 301 tariffs on...more
On February 10, 2022, the Department of Commerce published a Federal Register notice requesting public comments on the Section 232 exclusions process. The notice follows the agreement reached between the U.S. and the EU...more
On January 3, 2022, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) announced in the Federal Register the opportunity to request an annual administrative review for products that are currently subject to antidumping and...more
On July 2, 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a Federal Register Notice announcing that additional plant and plant products (including certain wood-based...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued final rules amending the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) by implementing new export controls on Burma (Myanmar), and adding four...more
As previously reported, on July 14, 2020, the President signed Executive Order 13936 on Hong Kong Normalization. As a result, CBP has issued a new marking requirement for goods that are produced in Hong Kong which enter...more
Because of the time needed to mark, pack, and ship goods from Hong Kong to the US, it is imperative that importers act quickly to ensure compliance with this new requirement. As reported previously and as a result of the...more
The Commerce Department announced on June 2, 2020, that it is starting another Section 232 investigation that could result in the imposition of tariffs or potentially other restrictions on imports of vanadium. The agency...more
On December 2, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced that in response to a digital services tax law passed in France, it would be retaliating with stringent tariffs on luxury products coming from France. The...more