South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican who earlier served for eight years in the U.S. House, will be President Donald Trump's pick for homeland security secretary, multiple news outlets reported.
President Joe Biden is imposing Section 201 safeguard remedies on imports of fine denier polyester staple fiber (PSF), he said in a Nov. 8 proclamation. The action creates an absolute quota of fine denier PSF that can enter the country under temporary importation under bond (TIB). The safeguard takes effect Nov. 23, and the quota starts at zero.
Donald Trump, at a campaign rally in North Carolina, said that he'll tell the Mexican president that, if her administration doesn't "stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country," he will "immediately impose a 25% tariff on everything they send in to the United States of America."
If a reelected President Donald Trump uses the existing Section 301 tariffs program to hike tariffs on all Chinese goods by at least 60%, that's likely to survive a court challenge, said two law professors who spoke during a Washington International Trade Association webinar on the executive branch's ability to make deals and impose trade restrictions without congressional say-so.
Predictions of inflation and lost exports if Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump re-wins the White House and imposes global tariffs are well-trod ground.
Five Republican governors asked the Biden administration to collaborate with the FDA to identify foreign manufacturers that produce sterile IV solutions and the containers for those solutions.
Donald Trump, in a lengthy interview with Bloomberg's editor-in-chief, tripled down on his tariff policy, calling the word tariff "the most beautiful word in the dictionary," and saying that his plan of a 10% tariff on all non-Chinese imports is not nearly enough to reverse factory closures.
The White House announced Oct. 2 that the president signed the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Pilot Program Act of 2023, which extends CTPAT membership to 20 third-party logistics providers, half of which should not own warehouses. Both warehousing companies and non-asset-based 3PLs currently aren't allowed to join CTPAT.
Former President Donald Trump, speaking at campaign rallies around the country in recent days in his quest to return to the White House, has threatened to impose a 200% tariff on John Deere imports if it keeps expanding manufacturing in Mexico, and that he would do the same to anyone else that moved manufacturing to another country.
Vice President Kamala Harris called the former president's idea of imposing tariffs on imports from all countries "the Trump sales tax" during the Sept. 10 presidential debate, saying it would increase the cost of everyday goods by 20%.