President Donald Trump answered a question about auto tariffs for Tesla CEO Elon Musk, as the two stood in the Oval Office May 30.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 29, 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.
In the May 28 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 22), CBP published a proposal to revoke a ruling letter concerning the tariff classification of molybdenum disulphide powder.
CBP is launching the Trade Information Notice service, which the agency says will relay trade and customs updates via a subscription, according to a May 30 posting on the Cargo Systems Message Service.
As importers, customs brokers and attorneys feel whiplash from the ever-shifting changes in U.S. tariff policy, one particular issue that these stakeholders will continue to grapple with over the coming months is ensuring that importers understand and comply with all the regulations on country of origin, according to experts speaking on a May 30 webinar sponsored by the International Trade Institute titled "Rules, Risk and Reality: How EU Exporters Can Navigate the New US Trade Era."
A CBP spokesperson told International Trade Today that the ACE support bi-weekly trade calls, which recently were discontinued according to a CSMS message (see 2505270056), will resume "in the coming months." CBP is "refocusing the biweekly call back to technical ACE-related questions for the software developer community," the spokesperson said.
Chapter1, a small Nevada-based importer represented by boutique litigation firm Gerstein Harrow, filed a case at the Court of International Trade on May 29 seeking class certification for all importers that have paid tariffs recently invalidated by the trade court. The suit, if successful in challenging the tariffs and establishing class certification, would provide refunds for all companies that have paid tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (Chapter1 v. United States, CIT # 25-00097).
Both on social media and during a press conference, President Donald Trump said China has not fulfilled its promises offered as part of the de-escalation from 145% U.S. tariffs and 125% Chinese tariffs.
President Donald Trump said May 30 he plans to double tariffs on imported steel to 50%. “We’re going to bring it from 25% to 50% -- the tariffs on steel into the United States of America -- which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States," Trump said at a U.S. Steel facility in Pennsylvania. "Nobody’s going to get around that." He didn't say when the new duties will take effect.