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 Aug. 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 has made available for testing in the ACE certification environment the enhancement for Automated Rejection of Insufficient Cargo Description, Shipper Name, and Consignee Name. The deployment takes place Aug. 25, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. EDT., it said in an Aug. 25 cargo systems message.
President Donald Trump, speaking after meeting Aug. 25 with South Korea's president, said he believes the two sides have cemented the trade deal he first announced last month. "I think we have a deal done. They had some problems with it, but we stuck to our guns," Trump said. "They're going to make the deal that they agreed to make." Trump added that it's a "very big trade deal" and the "biggest deal" South Korea has "ever made by far."
A White House official, speaking on background, clarified that the investigation the president posted about last week on social media, which he said would lead to tariffs on furniture (see 2508220054), is not a new investigation that would cover an array of furniture made out of plastic, metal or wood. Rather, wooden furniture tariffs would fall under the Section 232 investigation on lumber that began at the beginning of March (see 2503030039).
CBP has announced the Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheadings that will apply for goods imported from India that are subject to an additional 25% tariff beginning Aug. 27, according to an Aug. 25 cargo systems message and a Federal Register notice.
The Austrian Post, Austria's official mail carrier, confirmed that it will be withholding international mail bound to the U.S. starting Aug. 25 as it and its European carriers seek to comply with regulations related to the end of the de minimis exemption on Aug. 29 (see 2508210036).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 22 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 Consumer Product Safety Commission has approved two safety standards, one for water beads and the other for neck floats for infants and young children.
On Aug. 21, 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: