Kharon has signed a contract with the DHS office that oversees the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List to provide it with access to Kharon’s ClearView risk analytics platform, Kharon said in a news release Aug. 21. Kharon said the deal will provide access to the platform for the DHS analysts who support the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force. Kharon signed a similar deal with CBP in 2023 (see 2310190049).
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which tried and failed to coordinate restraints on steel overproduction, reported that the World Trade Organization hasn't been able to discipline support for and from state-owned enterprises, and that free trade agreements are likely the best route to curtail their trade distorting effects.
Share Logistics, a company headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands, has acquired New Jersey-based customs broker Export-Import Services, the buyer announced in a June 13 news release.
Trade groups representing steel pipe and tube producers, along with Optimus Steel, Zekelman Industries, Atkore and the Coalition for a Prosperous America are asking the president to either reimpose tariffs on Mexican steel under Section 232, or impose quotas that reduce the import of products that are now imported in greater quantities than before 2017.
The Aluminum Association, in its weekly newsletter emailed May 24, said it had expected aluminum products that aren't subject to any Section 301 tariffs to be included in a new 25% tariff, but only 31 HTS codes will be covered (see 2405220072).
Manufacturing trade groups from the U.S. and Mexico told President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that government actions to respond to mass migration across the U.S. border "risk making critical supply chains between the United States and Mexico less resilient and dependable."
The Aluminum Association cheered the Mexican decision to apply tariffs to 544 tariff lines in aluminum and aluminum products. The tariffs are as low as 5% or 10% on some products, but are 25% and 35% on most.
The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America told President Joe Biden that removing tariffs on shoes doesn't require public policy reviews but "just the stroke of your pen to help lower shoe prices."
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group representing car manufacturers, recently wrote the White House to say that if Cleveland-Cliffs purchases U.S. Steel, more than two-thirds of steel used in vehicles would be produced by the resulting company. Cleveland-Cliffs has been agitating against Nippon Steel, which made a higher bid for U.S. Steel.
Descartes Systems Group is buying export compliance solutions and content provider OCR Services, it said March 28. Descartes acquired OCR for about $90 million.