Effective April 21, transportation and logistics firm DHL expects to temporarily suspend the collection and shipping of business-to-consumer shipments to private individuals in the U.S. where the declared customs value exceeds $800, according to an online notice.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is planning a phased-in approach to assessing fees on foreign-built vessels calling at U.S. ports, according to an April 17 announcement unveiling the results of its year-long Section 301 investigation.
The Commerce Department announced April 14 it will be withdrawing from an agreement suspending an antidumping duty investigation on Mexican-origin fresh tomatoes and issuing an antidumping duty order on the produce.
On April 14, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
CBP expects to start enforcing regulations requiring retail pharmacies to disclose the country of origin on the bottles of prescription medication meant for private individuals, according to comments made during the agency’s April 15 webinar on marking prescription medications.
China is raising tariff levels to 125% for U.S. origin goods in response to President Donald Trump's April 9 decision to raise tariffs to the same rate for Chinese goods (see 2504090043).
The International Trade Commission has ended a Section 337 investigation on imported disposable vaporizer devices (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1381), it said in a Federal Register notice to be published April 14. R.J. Reynolds, along with RAI Strategic Holdings, initially alleged in 2024 that 42 respondents (mostly in the U.S. and China) imported disposable vaporizer devices that infringe their patents (see 2407220025).
Tariff policy has been changing so rapidly that CBP hasn't been able to dot all the i's and cross the t's before entries are subject to the new rules, and that's putting brokers in limbo at times, the customs committee chair for the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America told an audience of brokers at NCBFAA's national conference this week.
China raised the tariff rate on U.S.-origin goods, from 34% to 84%, in response to President Donald Trump's April 8 executive order raising reciprocal rates by 50% (see 2504080079), the Office of the Tariff Commission of the State Council announced April 9. The new tariffs will take effect at 12:01 a.m. April 10, the commission said, according to an unofficial translation.
The decline of U.S. commercial shipbuilding -- and the fact that it's not cost-competitive with Japanese and South Korean shipbuilding -- must be rectified, the administration said, but the precise details of how that can be accomplished are yet to be determined.