On May 22, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is reopening a comment period for two notices: a pest risk analysis to import Chrysanthemum spp., synonymous genera cuttings and in vitro plantlets into the U.S., and an economic evaluation on regulating chrysanthemum white rust as a quarantine pest.
The Court of International Trade on May 23 dismissed Wisconsin man Gary Barnes' case against the ability of the president to impose tariffs. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves held that Barnes didn't have standing because he failed to claim that any harm he would suffer by tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump is "particularized" or "actual or imminent."
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 22, 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 issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
President Donald Trump wrote on social media that he is recommending "a straight 50% tariff on the EU" starting June 1 because talks with the EU "are going nowhere!" He said, as he has before, that the EU "was formed for the primary purpose of taking advantage of the United States on TRADE."
President Donald Trump elaborated on his tariff intentions with reporters in the White House, after posting online earlier in the day that 50% tariffs would begin on EU exports on June 1, and that he would be imposing a 25% tariff on imported iPhones.
The head of the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said that Africans who are worried about the possible end of the African Growth and Opportunity Act should remember that it's not just their countries that are losing trade access.
Cecilia Malmstrom, a former top European Commission trade official, said the EU is "painfully aware that the transatlantic relationship as we used to know it has been severely damaged."
The International Trade Commission published notices in the May 22 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):