NEW YORK -- Geodis Vice President Ed Fitzgerald and Maytee Pereira, Customs and International Trade co-leader at PwC, told trade compliance professionals that CBP scrutiny is getting stricter.

NEW YORK -- Although the president's obsession with domestic manufacturing doesn't extend to apparel, there are no signs the administration will adjust tariff policy to make clothing imports more affordable, or even adjust rules of origin to privilege nearshoring, an old Washington hand told the U.S. Fashion Industry Association annual conference audience.

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NEW YORK -- Apparel import compliance professionals more used to thinking about bills of lading and purchase orders than the major questions doctrine had their hopes raised -- and dashed -- at the annual U.S. Fashion Industry Association conference.

The first class-action lawsuit against the president’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs was filed Nov. 4 at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Smirk & Dagger Games v. Donald J. Trump, D.D.C. # 1:25-03857).

Two Trump appointees, along with the three liberal justices, had sharp questions for the Trump administration's advocate as the Supreme Court held a nearly three-hour hearing on the constitutionality of tariffs imposed around the world under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Nov. 4 implementing a cut in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act fentanyl tariffs on China to 10%. The tariff cut takes effect Nov. 10, as expected (see 2511030005).

As the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative considers whether the U.S. wants to continue the USMCA, it will evaluate more than 1,500 comments from farmers, manufacturers, retailers, civic society and broad business interests that operate in all three countries.

While importers may explore tariff mitigation strategies such as duty drawback, bonded warehouses, foreign-trade zones and free trade agreement eligibility, ensuring proper tariff classification should be the first and top priority, because potentially thousands of dollars in the underpayment -- or overpayment -- of duties is at stake if a good is classified incorrectly, speakers said during a panel at last week's International Compliance Professionals Association conference in Texas.

NEWPORT, R.I. -- The Trump administration appears to be ditching the standard of reasonable care by importers in favor of strict compliance when enforcing customs violations, trade lawyer David Murphy said at the Coalition of New England Companies for Trade's (CONECT) Northeast Trade and Transportation Conference on Oct. 29.