The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of silicon metal from Angola and Laos, it said in a fact sheet issued Sept. 26.
The U.S. government will try to make it very difficult for tariffs enacted through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to be refunded should the Supreme Court vacate them, according to trade lawyer Michael Roll.
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of silicon metal from Australia, Laos, Norway and Thailand, it said in a Sept. 23 fact sheet. Commerce will set the CVD rate at 41.31% for all Australian exporters, at 240% for all Laotian exporters, at 16.87% for all Norwegian exporters, and at 31.27% for all Thai exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Commerce is conducting concurrent antidumping duty investigations on the same product from Australia and Norway, with a preliminary determination expected by Nov. 20.
Responding to our question on Whirlpool's claims that U.S. import data shows its competitors are evading tariffs (see 2509150067), a CBP spokesperson told us that import data has recently been skewed by accidental overreporting of the quantity of goods imported, causing an erroneous spike in import volumes for affected goods.
The Treasury Department will refund tariffs imposed through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act if the government loses its case at the Supreme Court, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
Small shippers will "get hosed" by the end of the de minimis policy, while larger companies will find ways to manage, trade experts said on a podcast hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The EU Parliament is debating a proposal to lower its own tariffs, operating as though the U.S. is upholding its end of the U.S.-EU agreement, despite apparent U.S. failure to enact promised tariff reductions on EU goods. On Sept 1, the EU Parliament held an extraordinary meeting of the Committee on International Trade to discuss the legislation and the deal as a whole.
President Donald Trump claimed that India offered to "cut their Tariffs to nothing," as India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, stood firm against U.S. tariff pressure and promised deeper trade ties with Russia.
The U.S. invoked the rapid response labor mechanism under USMCA to investigate a Mexican meat processing facility. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said that it had received a petition alleging that workers at the Alimentos Grole facility in Mexico are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining. The U.S. has therefore suspended liquidation of unliquidated entries of goods from the facility.
The Trump administration may begin to use withhold release orders to punish enemies and reward allies, pushing nongovernmental organizations to pursue litigation against companies using forced labor, according to a human rights lawyer and nonprofit director.