Goods from the United Kingdom, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Austria and India will face new 25% Section 301 tariffs in response to digital services taxes if negotiations don't produce a resolution, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said in a June 2 news release. The tariffs are suspended for up to 180 days, as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development continues to negotiate international tax agreements.

President Donald Trump's addition of Section 232 tariffs on finished products of steel and aluminum was “invalid,” Court of International Trade Judges Timothy Stanceu and Jennifer Choe-Groves said in an April 5 ruling. The ruling is the result of a challenge from PrimeSource Building Products, which said the presidential proclamation that imposed the tariffs on steel and aluminum “derivatives” was improper because it was issued after the statutory deadline.

The Commerce Department is delaying a requirement for aluminum import licenses that had been set to take effect March 29, it said in a message on its website. The agency will soon publish a Federal Register notice again pushing back the effective date its agency’s Aluminum Import Monitoring System, which requires importers of aluminum or their customs brokers to submit information in an online portal to obtain an automatically issued license, then to submit the license number with entry summary documentation.

The Senate approved House Ways and Means Chief Trade Counsel Katherine Tai to be the U.S. Trade Representative with no opposition. The Senate voted 98-0 in favor of the confirmation.

Brenda Smith, CBP executive assistant commissioner-trade, will retire at the end of the month, Acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller said March 17 at the start of a Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee meeting.

The 15% tariffs on civil aircraft and 25% tariffs on about 150 tariff lines of products including liquor, Italian food and beverages, lenses, Greek yogurt, Spanish pork and more were lifted at 12:01 a.m. March 11, and will remain suspended until midnight July 10.

The European Union will drop its tariffs on U.S. exports on the Boeing retaliation list, and the U.S. will drop its Section 301 tariffs on EU products under the Airbus dispute, including food, wine and liquor, for four months, the EU announced March 5.

The U.S. announced that it is suspending tariffs on U.K. goods levied as part of the Airbus dispute, beginning immediately, and for four months. The U.K. already suspended its tariffs on American goods over Boeing subsidies on Jan. 1. It, too, said it will keep tariffs off for four months.

The Court of International Trade on March 1 issued a decision calling into question the ability to use first sale valuation on transactions involving non-market economies, including China. In a case on cookware imported by Meyer from a Chinese affiliate, CIT Senior Judge Thomas Aquilino held Meyer did not adequately prove that the sales were free of “any distortive nonmarket influences,” as required by a 1992 Federal Circuit decision on first sale involving Nissho Iwai.

CBP posted answers to set of frequently asked questions Feb. 12 about the withhold release order aimed at goods produced using forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The Jan. 13 WRO applies to cotton and tomato products produced in China’s Xinjiang province.