Steel and aluminum and their derivatives will be subject to 50% tariffs, not 25% tariffs, President Donald Trump wrote in a proclamation. The changes take effect at 12:01 a.m. June 4.
President Donald Trump said that although the 25% tariffs on steel, and the recently hiked aluminum tariffs, have "helped provide critical price support" to domestic producers, the rates are not high enough to enable them "to develop and maintain the rates of capacity production utilization that are necessary for the industries' sustained health and for projected national defense needs." So those rates will increase to 50% at 12:01 a.m. EDT June 4.
The District Court for the District of Columbia on June 3 stayed its decision finding that the International Economic Emergency Powers Act doesn't confer tariff-setting authority and declaring that all tariff action taken under IEEPA is illegal. Judge Rudolph Contreras suspended his preliminary injunction on the collection of the tariffs from the plaintiffs, two small importers, as well as the "accompanying memorandum opinion," which said IEEPA doesn't provide for tariffs. The ruling is stayed pending the government's appeal of the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The judge said a stay is "appropriate to protect the President’s ability to identify and respond to threats to the U.S. economy and national security."
A Federal Maritime Commission administrative law judge ordered ocean carrier SM Line Corp. May 28 to pay consumer goods company Samsung Electronics America $1.9 million in reparations for unfair demurrage and detention fees.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the June 2 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The International Trade Commission has ended a Section 337 investigation on imports of electronic computing devices from Ericsson (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1387), it said in a notice June 2. Complainant Ericsson initially alleged in 2024 that Lenovo was importing laptop, desktop and chromebook computers and parts that include high efficiency video coding (HEVC or H.265) technology covered by several Ericsson patents (see 2401170049).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 2 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
On May 30-31, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices June 2:
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has extended by three months certain current exclusions to its Section 301 investigation related to U.S. trade with China.