Roll and Harris, a law firm specializing in customs law, put out a newsletter alerting clients that they should not assume that they can amend an entry to say that Canadian or Mexican goods qualify for USMCA if their initial entry summary didn't.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick asked a top executive at Norsk Hydro a few weeks ago when the company would open a primary aluminum smelter.
Two Democrats and two Republicans in the Senate asked the administration to press Canada on changing how it administers tariff rate quotas for U.S. dairy exports as it approaches a renegotiation.
Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., introduced a bill that would direct the International Trade Commission to do an investigation on the effects of the 25% and 10% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, including on consumer prices, and the impact on small businesses and farmers, including due to retaliation from those countries, within a year of enactment. The bill lays out the sectors to be covered, and also asks the ITC economists to estimate the impact on domestic jobs and investment.
Rep. Rudy Yakym, R-Ind., introduced a private bill to allow a company that imported golf cart tires to reliquidate the entries years later, so that they can recoup nearly $2 million.
Nicholas Lamp, academic director of international law programs at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, told an audience of lawyers at Georgetown Law School that he questioned the premise of the panel he was speaking on -- that Canada and Mexico's approaches to trade with China would influence the future of USMCA.
President Donald Trump said the U.S. will "shortly" respond to EU retaliatory tariffs on U.S. whiskey with a 200% tariff on EU alcoholic beverages, including wine and champagne, if the EU whiskey tariff -- set to take effect April 1 -- isn't removed.
During a visit by Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin, President Donald Trump brushed away Martin's comments about Irish companies buying Boeing planes and hiring in the U.S. "There's a massive deficit. I don't mean by a little bit," he said, referring to the trade in goods between Ireland and the U.S. "We want to sort of even that out as nicely as we can. We don't want to do anything to hurt Ireland, but we want fairness," he said.
A bill that aims to create a true single window for importers, as well as reduce redundancies in advance export manifest data submissions, was introduced in the Senate by Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev.
Republicans voted in the House to say that there will be no more calendar days in the rest of this session of Congress, through the end of 2025, in a procedural gambit directly blocking the ability of critics of President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico to challenge that policy.