The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of thermoformed molded fiber products from China and Vietnam, it said in a fact sheet issued May 7.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from Italy (C-475-841). The rates calculated would apply for cash deposit purposes, and for assessments for entries from four companies during calendar year 2023. Any changes to the cash deposit rates would take effect beginning on the date of publication of the final results in the Federal Register, due in early September.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on corrosion-resistant steel products from Taiwan (A-583-856). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China (A-570-016). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023.
Under aggressive questioning from Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that exempting tariffs on car seats, cribs, high chairs and other essential baby items "is under consideration."
Vice President JD Vance, at a Q&A with Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to the U.S., said it should be "very, very easy" to talk with officials at the EU about the bloc lowering its regulatory barriers to trade and its approach to U.S. tech giants.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 6, 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.
CBP will increase the number of Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes that may be submitted per entry line from eight to 32, trade consultant Bonnie Kersch said in a LinkedIn post May 6. Attendees were told of the change during CBP’s Trade and Cargo Security Summit in New Orleans that day, with gasps and laughing audible among the audience, according to replies to the post.
President Donald Trump, responding to a reporter's quote from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that the administration is considering tariff exemptions for car seats from China [see Ref:2505060052]), said he doesn't know if he wants to do that.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, after an evening announcement that he would travel to Switzerland to have trade talks with China on May 10 and 11, said that at current levels of tariffs, there's a trade embargo between the two countries.