China’s finance ministry announced on Monday evening that it would proceed in raising tariffs on roughly $60 billion worth in American goods beginning June 1, 2019. Beijing will increase tariffs on more than 5,000 products to 20 percent or 25 percent from the previous 10 percent imposed last fall. As [...]
Acting on threats from earlier this week, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) officially posted a notice of modification in the Federal Register increasing duties on $200 billion worth of goods from China, also referred to as List 3, from 10 percent to 25 percent. But new language [...]
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative confirmed they are scheduled to publish a modification on Thursday, May 9, 2019 to the Section 301 Tariffs applicable to List 3 of product from China. As reported earlier in the week, a Chinese delegation of negotiators, including Vice Premier Liu He, are [...]
On March 27, 2019, the Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the initiation of antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports of wooden cabinets and vanities and components thereof from the People’s Republic of China. Dumping occurs when a foreign company sells a product in the United States [...]
As Chinese negotiators prepare to visit the United States this week for what is supposed to be the final round of trade talks, two ominous messages have U.S. shippers on alert. On Sunday, May 5, 2019, the United States President, Donald Trump, posted threats to increase the existing 10% tariffs [...]
On May 1, 2019, the Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the initiation of antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations on imports of ceramic tile from the People’s Republic of China. Dumping occurs when a foreign company sells a product in the United States at less than its fair [...]
On Monday, April 8, 2019, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced that it will begin yet another round of Section 301 retaliatory tariffs, this time, aimed at an ongoing dispute with the European Union (EU) and the subsidization of Airbus, one of the two leading providers of [...]
On March 22, the TSCA Title VI import certification requirement that applies to composite wood products (panels of hardwood plywood, particleboard, medium density fiberboard, thin-medium density fiberboard, etc.,) component parts containing such composite wood products, and finished goods containing such composite wood products that are imported into the U.S. goes [...]
Needless to say, the transportation industry has experienced its share of strain over the past two years. Everything from China trade tariff impacts, trucking hours-of-service changes, equipment and chassis allocation, carrier agreements, mega-vessel deliveries, and even weather has had a significant impact on America’s ports. Chassis shortages and mega-vessel deliveries [...]
Published to the Federal Register on March 5, 2019, the President directed the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to modify the action taken in Section 301 investigations by “postponing the date on which the rate of the additional duties will increase to 25 percent for the products of China covered by [...]
