Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, has reintroduced a bill to impose a blanket 10% additional tariff on all imports, in line with President-elect Donald Trump's campaign promises.
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) said comparability findings are coming by Sept. 1, 2025, for "all harvesting nations that did not submit an application for a comparability finding" and all harvesting nations the NMFS has already preliminarily said will be denied a comparability finding. The announcement came as part of a settlement of a lawsuit from three wildlife advocacy groups against the NMFS's failure to ban fish or fish products exported from fisheries that don't meet U.S. bycatch standards under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (Natural Resources Defense Council v. Gina Raimondo, CIT # 24-00148).
No goods subject to special trade remedies -- 99.9% of which are subject to Section 301 tariffs -- would be able to enter as de minimis shipments under a proposed rule released by CBP Jan. 17.
No goods subject to special trade remedies would be able to enter de minimis -- which primarily affects goods subject to Section 301 tariffs -- under a proposed rule released by CBP Jan. 17.
Reps. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., and Don Beyer, D-Va., reintroduced a bill that would remove the possibility of a president using the International Economic Emergency Powers Act to impose quotas or tariffs. Most lawyers think Trump would use IEEPA for a global tariff. The statute is currently used to impose sanctions on parties in Iran, Belarus, Burma, Ethiopia and dozens of other countries.
CBP created Harmonized System Update 2501 on Jan. 13, containing 228 Automated Broker Interface (ABI) records and 47 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2501 includes several PGA HTS flag updates as well as adjustments required by the verification of the 2025 Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
CBP will be requiring producers of automotive parts and vehicles to supply more data elements to prove that these goods are eligible for preferential tariff treatment under the trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, according to an interim final rule released Jan. 16.
Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for treasury secretary, told the Senate Finance Committee that they should think about how tariffs will be deployed by thinking of three categories.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, in a Jan. 15 speech at the Detroit Auto Show, criticized President-elect Donald Trump's proposal to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian exports as one that would damage Michigan's auto sector, which employs, or leads to indirect employment of, more than a million people in the state -- a fifth of the workforce.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said that senators are starting to have conversations about what incoming President Donald Trump might do on tariffs, and said, "We'll work through that."