Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, said he has met with customs brokers each of the last three days, and their main ask is no more executive orders changing tariffs that are released on a Friday afternoon or night and take effect on Monday.
CBP has clarified the resubmission time frame for rejected entry summaries with trade remedy duties, according to a Sept. 11 cargo systems message. The time limit for rejecting antidumping duty and countervailing duty and trade remedy entry summaries is 60 days without supervisory approval and 300 days with supervisory approval, CBP said. Trade remedy summaries include those subject to Section 232, Section 301, Section 201 and International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs. The trade community has 10 working days to respond to AD/CVD and/or trade remedy entry summary rejects, the agency said.
The EU wasn't willing to gamble on a trade war, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in her annual "State of the EU" speech.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of Aug. 11-17, Aug. 18-24, Aug. 25-31 and Sept. 1-7:
President Donald Trump posted on social media over the weekend that if the EU doesn't stop its "discriminatory actions" of fines against Apple, Google and other tech companies, "I will be forced to start a Section 301 proceeding to nullify the unfair penalties being charged to these Taxpaying American Companies" (see 2509050071).
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.
Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., a member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, told International Trade Today that Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith, R-Neb., is looking to pass a renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act "now that we got the big, beautiful bill through," adding that Smith has wanted to do this "for a while."
CBP late last week provided guidance on the extension of Section 301 product exclusions for goods imported from China, noting that ACE functionality for the acceptance of these exclusions is available.
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President Donald Trump said that the administration will petition the Supreme Court on Sept. 3 to make an "expedited ruling" on the legality of tariffs he imposed on every country through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.