Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the lead Republican on a bill that would prevent future executive tariffs from lasting more than 60 days without an approval in Congress, said on a phone call with reporters that it was a deliberate choice not to have the bill roll back Section 232 tariffs on autos, steel and aluminum, Section 301 tariffs on China, or tariffs on nearly all countries under the guise of national emergencies.
The potentially competing objectives of President Donald Trump's April 2 tariffs could mean that they won't go away anytime soon, experts suggested during an event hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center.
The Court of International Trade on April 8 rejected Georgia woman Skeeter-Jo Stoute-Francois' challenge to four questions on the October 2021 customs broker license exam. Judge Lisa Wang held that for three of the questions, Stoute-Francois formulated her own "factual scenarios" in arguing that there wasn't enough information to select the correct answer. For the remaining question, Wang said CBP's correct answer choice was backed by substantial evidence.
CBP created Harmonized System Update 2513 on April 4, containing 27 Automated Broker Interface (ABI) records and 11 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2513 includes the Reciprocal Tariff updates, effective April 5, and PGA updates. For additional information on the tariff updates, CSMS # 64649265 is available to provide more on tariffs with an effective date of April 5 (see 2504020072).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website April 7, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
Beer in glass bottles under subheading 2203.00.0030 isn’t subject to Section 232 tariffs, CBP said April 7 in an update to a FAQ on its website.
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The additional 50% tariffs that President Donald Trump threatened on China if Beijing doesn't rescind its retaliatory tariffs (see 2504070016) will take effect at 12:01 a.m. April 9, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during an April 8 press conference. "They will be going into effect at 12:01 a.m. tonight, so effectively tomorrow," she said when asked if the executive order to impose them had already been signed. No executive order had been issued as of press time.
President Donald Trump shared on social media April 8 that he'd just talked to South Korea's acting president on the phone, and they had discussed not just trade and possible purchases that would lower Korea's trade surplus, but also payment for U.S. military bases in their country.
The $1.5 million and $1 million docking fees proposed under the Section 301 shipbuilding case (see 2502240006) are "just those -- they're proposed actions," U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., during an appearance in front of the Senate Finance Committee April 8.