Among more than 700 submissions to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative -- as the administration seeks to quantify the cost to American exporters and producers of trade barriers and unfair subsidies -- were just over a dozen from trade groups representing foreign companies, American chambers of commerce specific to foreign markets, and foreign governments.
The Border Trade Alliance asked the Commerce Department to refund duties paid by importers during the brief imposition of tariffs on Mexico and Canada last week.
CBP has released its March 12 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 11), which includes a ruling notice involving the revocation of one ruling letter and revocation of treatment relating to the tariff classification of certain wheels and hubs for trucks and trailers. Also included are four Court of International Trade slip opinions and one U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision.
Roll and Harris, a law firm specializing in customs law, put out a newsletter alerting clients that they should not assume that they can amend an entry to say that Canadian or Mexican goods qualify for USMCA if their initial entry summary didn't.
A State Department notice declaring that all agency efforts to control international trade now constitute a "foreign affairs function" of the U.S. under the Administrative Procedure Act will ultimately be subject to the discretion of the courts, trade lawyers told us.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick asked a top executive at Norsk Hydro a few weeks ago when the company would open a primary aluminum smelter.
Customs brokers and importers are still grappling with how to comply with the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum derivatives that went into effect just after midnight on March 12 (see 2503120054).
Reps. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., and Lizzie Fletcher, D-Texas, re-introduced a bill that would require the Treasury Department to study to what degree the tariff system is regressive, or hurts lower-income consumers more than more well-off consumers, and to what extent women's apparel faces higher tariffs than men's apparel.
Two Democrats and two Republicans in the Senate asked the administration to press Canada on changing how it administers tariff rate quotas for U.S. dairy exports as it approaches a renegotiation.
Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., introduced a bill that would direct the International Trade Commission to do an investigation on the effects of the 25% and 10% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, including on consumer prices, and the impact on small businesses and farmers, including due to retaliation from those countries, within a year of enactment. The bill lays out the sectors to be covered, and also asks the ITC economists to estimate the impact on domestic jobs and investment.