Welcome to the January 2025 issue of “As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns,” our monthly newsletter where we compile essential updates from the customs and trade world over the past month. We bring you the most recent and...more
1/17/2025
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CFIUS ,
Compliance ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Forced Labor ,
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) ,
Imports ,
International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
NGOs ,
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Oral Argument ,
Popular ,
Section 301 ,
Tariffs ,
USTR ,
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)
Welcome to the December 2024 issue of “As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns,” our monthly newsletter where we compile essential updates from the customs and trade world over the past month. We bring you the most recent and...more
12/18/2024
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China ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
De Minimus Doctrine ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
E-Commerce ,
Enforcement ,
EU ,
Forced Labor ,
International Trade ,
Investigations ,
Section 301 ,
Steel Industry ,
Tariffs ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ,
USTR ,
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)
Welcome to the September 2024 issue of “As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns,” our monthly newsletter where we compile essential updates from the customs and trade world over the past month. We bring you the most recent and...more
9/17/2024
/ Aluminum Sales ,
Anti-Subsidies ,
Canada ,
Child Labor ,
China ,
Countervailing Duties ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
ECCNs ,
Electric Vehicles ,
Enforcement ,
Export Controls ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Forced Labor ,
Fraud ,
Imports ,
ITAR ,
Manufacturers ,
Popular ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Section 301 ,
Solar Panels ,
Steel Industry ,
Surtax ,
Tariffs ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ,
US Trade Policies ,
USTR ,
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) ,
Whistleblowers
Welcome to the August 2024 issue of “As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns,” our monthly newsletter where we compile essential updates from the customs and trade world over the past month. We bring you the most recent and...more
8/16/2024
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Customs ,
DFARS ,
Duties ,
Federal Register ,
FIRRMA ,
Foreign Investment ,
Imports ,
Lithium Batteries ,
National Security ,
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) ,
Retail ,
Section 301 ,
Trade Relations ,
USTR ,
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) ,
Vietnam
Following last week’s long-awaited report on the statutory four-year review of the Section 301 tariffs, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued a Federal Register notice on the proposed...more
5/24/2024
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Clean Energy ,
Electric Vehicles ,
Exclusions ,
Imports ,
Section 301 ,
Semiconductors ,
Solar Energy ,
Tariffs ,
US Trade Policies ,
USTR
Recent government actions illustrate that US-China trade relations will continue to be a focus as the United States enters an election year. We’ll continue to monitor developments regarding Section 301 tariffs — will they...more
On March 17, 2023, the Court of International Trade upheld the legality of Section 301 tariffs on Chinese origin products included on the Office of the US Trade Representative’s List 3 and List 4A, however the case will...more
As detailed in our previous alerts, the Section 301 statute (19 USC § 2417), includes a “termination provision” stating that the Section 301 tariffs will terminate after a period of 4 years, unless a representative of the...more
US Government agencies have announced concurrent reviews of the Section 301 and Section 232 tariffs, which may result in changes to the current tariff rates and product lists in the coming months. At the end of this report is...more
USTR is soliciting comments and has scheduled hearings regarding the potential imposition of Section 301 tariffs of up to 25% in response to the Digital Services Tax adopted by Austria, India, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and the...more
4/6/2021
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Digital Services Tax ,
EU ,
Exports ,
Imports ,
International Trade ,
Section 301 ,
Tariffs ,
UK ,
US Trade Policies ,
USTR ,
WTO
If your company has paid Section 301 duties on products of China included in List 3 and List 4(a), there may still be an opportunity to file a suit to potentially recover duties paid.
On February 5, 2021, the US Court of...more