Former trade lawyer Scott Lincicome, who now leads the libertarian Cato Institute's trade division, said the administration learned the natural consequences of Section 301 tariffs when Chinese goods flow to India, Mexico and Vietnam as inputs to manufactured goods that are created in those countries.
CBP upheld its June 2024 ruling that the customer who buys the medication at retail -- not the retail pharmacy -- is the ultimate purchaser, and as a result, retail pharmacies must list the medicine's country of origin on the prescription label. This is the case even if the FDA's Drug Supply Chain Security Act doesn't require country of origin on the prescription label, according to CBP.
President Donald Trump, speaking with reporters July 25 before boarding a flight to Scotland, downplayed the possibility of reaching an agreement to impose lower than his threatened 30% tariff on EU exports.
Elio Gonzalez, a former Commerce Department attorney, has joined Alston & Bird as counsel in the Washington D.C. office, Gonzalez announced on LinkedIn. Gonzalez worked at Commerce for the past six years, joining as an attorney in 2019 and rising to assistant chief counsel in September 2024 before departing from the agency. Prior to joining Commerce, Gonzalez served as an attorney at CBP in Long Beach, California, for nearly five years.
A Government Accountability Office report released July 23 recommends that the Department of Transportation office handling multimodal freight infrastructure get better at identifying infrastructure needs and policy changes that affect the air cargo movements.
Section 232 tariffs are necessary to combat China's trade practices, the Coalition for a Prosperous America said in a July 23 report.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 24 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 Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 24 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):
A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting antidumping and countervailing duties be imposed on freight rail couplers imported from the Czech Republic and India. Commerce now will decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. The Coalition of Freight Coupler Producers, composed of McConway & Torley LLC and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, requested the investigation.
The Commerce Department has released a notice announcing the beginning of administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders with June anniversary dates. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications by Aug. 8 to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.