The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on chassis from Mexico (A-201-865), Thailand (A-549-854) and Vietnam (A-552-849), and countervailing duty investigations on chassis from Mexico (C-201-866) and Thailand (C-549-855). The AD/CVD investigations on Mexico and Thailand cover entries in calendar year 2024, and the AD investigation on Vietnam covers entries July 1, 2024, through Dec. 31, 2024.
On March 19, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Nearly 750 organizations and businesses gave input to the administration on trade barriers or subsidies that prevent them from reaching their sales potential.
Associations' views diverged widely on the wisdom of codifying a modified Type 86 process and tweaking the clear-from-the-manifest process for de minimis entries. Groups also disagreed on CBP's proposals for what new data should be submitted. The agency received 95 comments on its proposal, though dozens were from individuals and didn't make substantive suggestions. Some associations and companies addressed both this proposed rule and the one that would carve out sections 301 and 232 goods from de minimis. The comment period for that rule closes March 24.
On March 17, 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:
When the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative asked for comments on policies that reduce U.S. exports, most agricultural trade associations -- and a few companies -- laid out their concerns about tariffs or sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) barriers that prevent their exports from reaching their potential.
Among more than 700 submissions to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative -- as the administration seeks to quantify the cost to American exporters and producers of trade barriers and unfair subsidies -- were just over a dozen from trade groups representing foreign companies, American chambers of commerce specific to foreign markets, and foreign governments.
A State Department notice declaring that all agency efforts to control international trade now constitute a "foreign affairs function" of the U.S. under the Administrative Procedure Act will ultimately be subject to the discretion of the courts, trade lawyers told us.
The Commerce Department released notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigation on methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) from China (A-570-200). The AD investigation covers entries July 1, 2024, through Dec. 31, 2024.
Two Democrats and two Republicans in the Senate asked the administration to press Canada on changing how it administers tariff rate quotas for U.S. dairy exports as it approaches a renegotiation.