The National Council of Textile Organizations, joined by its Canadian and Mexican counterparts, urged President Donald Trump not to impose 25% tariffs on imports in the region.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
WilmerHale International Trade Practice leader David Ross told panelists on a discussion of reciprocal trade that, "contrary to some earlier expectations, there are indications that the president is not planning to do a line-by-line" tariff adjustment to match tariff levels of trading partners, but, rather, to seek to quantify the costs of higher tariffs and other policies he sees as trade barriers, and to put a single tariff rate on the country's products.
Mexico should remain an attractive option for importers despite volatility from U.S. tariff threats, Mexico-based trade lawyer Alejandro Gomez argued during a Feb. 26 webinar hosted by In-House Connect, with lawyers from Foley & Lardner.
The Commerce Department is suspending liquidation and setting new antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on all imports of monosodium glutamate from Malaysia made from Chinese-origin glutamic acid, after preliminarily finding that the imports are circumventing AD on MSG from China (A-570-992), the agency said.
A dairy exporters trade group and a former USMCA negotiator say the state-to-state dispute panels under the NAFTA replacement are only a partial success.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on certain corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from South Korea (C-580-879), originally published Jan. 19, 2022, to align the results with the final decision, published Jan. 17, 2025, in a court case that challenged a rate in those results.
The Commerce Department is increasing countervailing duty cash deposit rates for some exporters of low speed personal transportation vehicles from China (C-570-177), after amending its original preliminary CVD determination to fix calculation errors.
The Commerce Department is amending the June 25, 2021, final determination of an antidumping duty investigation on utility scale wind towers from Spain (A-469-823) based on the final decision, issued Jan. 28, 2025, in a court case challenging those final results. The AD order, published Aug. 16, 2021, also is being amended to reflect the new final results. Commerce calculated a revised AD rate for the collapsed entity made up of the following exporters: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE); Windar Renovables S.A. (Windar); and five of Windar’s affiliates (i.e., Tadarsa Eolica SL; Windar Offshore SL; Windar Wind Services SL; Aemsa Santana SA; and Apoyos Metalicos SA) -- collectively known as SGRE/Windar. That change also affects the rate for all other exporters in the subject review.
The Commerce Department is amending the April 14, 2022, final determination in an antidumping duty investigation on raw honey from Brazil (A-351-857) based on the final decision, issued Jan. 24, 2025, in a court case challenging those final results. The AD order, published June 10, 2022, also is being amended to reflect the new final results. Commerce calculated a revised AD rate for Apiário Diamante Comercial Exportadora Ltda/Apiário Diamante Produção e Comercial de Mel Ltda (known as Supermel) -- a reduction from the original rate of 83.72%. That change also affects the rate for all other exporters in the subject review.