Mexican media reported that President Claudia Sheinbaum said in her daily press conference that Mexico will try to get an exemption from the announced 25% tariff on medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
The addition of caustic soda as a high priority sector for forced labor enforcement through the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act represents an entirely new compliance challenge for importers because of its ubiquity and difficulty to trace, according to an Oct. 6 report by risk intelligence firm Kharon.
On Oct. 6, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Southern Shrimp Alliance has criticized the FDA for failing to address an "unprecedented amount" of banned antibiotics in imported Indonesian shrimp, according to an Oct. 7 statement by the group.
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, in trying to elaborate on the "significant tariff relief" he said was coming for domestic car production, said that the administration is considering how to "open the aperture" of how you use the 3.75% offset of tariffs available for autos assembled between April 3 and May 1, 2026.
Judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit pressed counsel for importer Blue Sky the Color of Imagination and the government during oral argument on Oct. 7 in the importer's customs classification suit on its notebooks with calendars. During the argument, Judges Alan Lourie, Raymond Chen and William Bryson grappled with whether the court is bound by its 2010 ruling in Mead v. U.S. and whether the goods are properly classified as calendars or diaries (Blue Sky The Color of Imagination v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 24-1710).
CBP is committing to using HAP International's TRACE ID program, following a "successful" technical assessment of the "shipment-level traceability data" it provides, the company announced Oct. 7. CBP is "taking steps towards" a formal Memorandum of Agreement with the company to use the program that provides "detailed product-level traceability information" before shipments arrive in the U.S., the company said.
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The Bureau of Industry and Security posted more requests for new products to be included as derivatives subject to Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum products. The release of the requests starts a two-week comment period for the potential inclusions, with comments on each due Oct. 21.
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security posted 95 requests for inclusions of new tariff subheadings under 50% Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum derivatives. Comments on the inclusion requests are due in 14 days, on Oct. 21, and the postings also kick off a 60-day period for BIS to consider the requests.