A Sandler Travis lawyer, looking forward to trade developments in 2022, said CBP is scheduled to issue a final rule in February for USMCA implementation, including applying the part 102 rules for nonpreferential purposes to goods produced in Canada and Mexico (see 2107010045). "This would avoid situations where goods could qualify under the USMCA as a product of Mexico, but still be hit with Section 301 tariffs," Mark Tallo said on the firm's "Two Minutes on Trade" podcast.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 20-26:
Importers of nonwoven wipes entered under certain tariff subheadings should file post-summary corrections within the next 60 days to reflect changes to a Section 301 tariff exclusion recently amended by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, CBP said in a CSMS message Dec. 27.
The National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones has long argued that barring goods produced in FTZs from qualifying for USMCA tariff benefits makes no sense, if the goods would otherwise meet rules of origin, and that the restriction puts FTZ production at a disadvantage compared to Mexican and Canadian production.
The White House released its much anticipated proclamation amending the tariff schedule to implement the five-year update to the World Customs Organization’s Harmonized System tariff nomenclature. The widespread changes to the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule will take effect 30 days after the proclamation is published in the Federal Register.
The presidential proclamation amending the Harmonized Tariff Schedule to implement a hefty five-year update will likely be published in the coming days, which would set an effective date in late January for the lengthy list of changes. The White House released the proclamation Dec. 23 (see 2112230012), though a publication date in the Federal Register had not yet been scheduled as of press time. The date of publication triggers a 30-day countdown before the changes take effect.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 13-19:
No conference committee members for the Senate China package have been appointed, even though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said a month ago the package would go to conference "immediately" with House bills (see 2111180009).
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 6-12:
How to manage China's market distortions is an ever-present question in the relationship between the U.S. and the EU and will need to be addressed eventually, the deputy director-general of BusinessEurope and the president of the China Center at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said during a Dec. 9 Chamber event. Luisa Santos, from BusinesEurope, said that she sees new ambitions in Europe to address the disruption caused by non-market economies, including an anti-coercion tool that was just announced. But, she said, there needs to be more work in coordinating with the U.S. and Japan on how to address subsidies, state-owned enterprises and forced technology transfer. "I think one of the most important things to agree on what we think is a distortive subsidy and then the best way to address it," she said.