The Treasury Department will refund tariffs imposed through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act if the government loses its case at the Supreme Court, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
The New York-based entity formerly known as Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. has accused France-based ocean carrier CMA CGM of charging “unjust and unreasonable” demurrage and detention fees during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a complaint filed Sept. 2 with the Federal Maritime Commission.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that her government is considering imposing tariffs on countries with which Mexico doesn't have a trade agreement, including China.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Sept. 5 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 5 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):
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on heavy-walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Mexico (A-201-847) covering the period Sept. 1, 2022, through Aug. 31, 2023, that were published July 24, to correct a ministerial error in a calculation for one mandatory respondent to the review, which results in a slightly lower AD cash deposit rate for the respondent, Maquilacero S.A. de C.V. (Commerce's notice of amended final results mistakenly says the final results were published June 24.)
On Sept. 4, 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:
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Bloomberg Television that he would be meeting with Switzerland's vice president later on Sept. 5, but he wasn't hopeful that the country would get a reprieve from 39% tariffs.
House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., who has led the charge to terminate the underlying emergencies for the president's tariffs, said he doesn't know if Republicans will change course and allow a vote on his latest resolution, which would end the 40% tariffs on about 39% of Brazilian imports.
President Donald Trump threatened to impose new tariffs on goods from the EU after the bloc fined Google more than $3 billion this week for violating antitrust laws. "We cannot let this happen to brilliant and unprecedented American Ingenuity and, if it does, I will be forced to start a Section 301 proceeding to nullify the unfair penalties being charged to these Taxpaying American Companies," Trump wrote Sept. 5 on Truth Social.