The Department of Energy has issued a final rule rescinding and amending certification provisions, labeling requirements and enforcement provisions for specific types of consumer products and commercial and industrial equipment that were part of a final rule published Oct. 9, 2024, it said in a Federal Register notice.
The executive order implementing the U.S.-Japan tariff deal is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on Sept. 9, starting a seven-day clock for publication of a subsequent notice reducing tariffs on Japanese autos and auto parts currently subject to 25% Section 232 tariffs.
CBP provided guidance on the latest changes announced Sept. 5 to reciprocal tariff exemptions under the "Annex II" list, addressing specifically goods that have been added or removed from Annex II. For entries pre-filed with subheading 9903.01.32 for consumption on or after Sept. 8, "importers should take action as necessary to correct entries to reflect the correct reciprocal tariff applicability as soon as possible no later than within ten days of the cargo’s release from CBP custody," according to a Sept. 6 cargo systems message.
Nearly 40 minerals -- including gold bullion -- as well as sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnets and LEDs are no longer subject to reciprocal tariffs.
The Treasury Department will refund tariffs imposed through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act if the government loses its case at the Supreme Court, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that her government is considering imposing tariffs on countries with which Mexico doesn't have a trade agreement, including China.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Bloomberg Television that he would be meeting with Switzerland's vice president later on Sept. 5, but he wasn't hopeful that the country would get a reprieve from 39% tariffs.
House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., who has led the charge to terminate the underlying emergencies for the president's tariffs, said he doesn't know if Republicans will change course and allow a vote on his latest resolution, which would end the 40% tariffs on about 39% of Brazilian imports.
President Donald Trump threatened to impose new tariffs on goods from the EU after the bloc fined Google more than $3 billion this week for violating antitrust laws. "We cannot let this happen to brilliant and unprecedented American Ingenuity and, if it does, I will be forced to start a Section 301 proceeding to nullify the unfair penalties being charged to these Taxpaying American Companies," Trump wrote Sept. 5 on Truth Social.
President Donald Trump, before a dinner with tech company CEOs Sept. 4, took a few questions from reporters, including one on planned tariffs on semiconductors and, possibly, goods made with chips.