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A Sandler Travis lawyer, looking forward to trade developments in 2022, said CBP is scheduled to issue a final rule in February for USMCA implementation, including applying the part 102 rules for nonpreferential purposes to goods produced in Canada and Mexico (see 2107010045). "This would avoid situations where goods could qualify under the USMCA as a product of Mexico, but still be hit with Section 301 tariffs," Mark Tallo said on the firm's "Two Minutes on Trade" podcast.
No conference committee members for the Senate China package have been appointed, even though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said a month ago the package would go to conference "immediately" with House bills (see 2111180009).
The leader of the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee focused on making it easier for domestic industry to win antidumping and countervailing duty cases and said that the de minimis statute needs to be altered, in a hearing designed to talk about how Chinese practices damage workers, businesses and the environment.
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The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will extend most of the exclusions from Section 301 China tariffs on goods used to treat COVID-19 for six months, it said in a notice posted on the agency's website. For the 81 exclusions being extended, the new expiration date is May 31, 2022. All the exclusions were slated to expire Nov. 14, but USTR is allowing a "transition period" and that expiration date will be Nov. 30, it said.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Oct. 25-31:
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