On June 3, 2026, the White House issued an executive order titled Strengthening Customs Enforcement. The order directs the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to revise rules governing the importer of record (IOR) population. Customs brokers, freight forwarders, and other parties involved [...]
On June 2, 2026, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released findings from its Section 301 forced labor investigation. The agency proposed additional tariffs of 10% or 12.5% on imports from 60 economies that have failed to ban or enforce prohibitions on goods produced with forced labor. [...]
Late on June 1, 2026, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published a Federal Register notice proposing a 25% Section 301 tariff on all goods of Brazil, with two major carve-outs: Articles already covered by Section 232 tariffs (steel, aluminum, copper, and certain heavy equipment) are excluded. [...]
The White House issued a new proclamation on June 1, 2026, further adjusting tariff regimes for imports of aluminum, steel and copper into the United States. The changes apply to goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. Eastern daylight time on June [...]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said it intends to appeal a Court of International Trade (CIT) order involving refunds of duties collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and a separate order requiring U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney S. Scott to appear for live testimony. [...]
Following economic and trade consultations in Seoul and a heads-of-state meeting in Beijing, China and the United States have released a preliminary set of bilateral trade outcomes. For importers, exporters, and logistics operators on this trade lane, the outcomes touch four areas: tariff arrangements, agricultural trade, rare earth export controls, [...]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a temporary administrative stay of the U.S. Court of International Trade’s recent ruling that invalidated the Administration’s Section 122 tariff program. The order temporarily pauses both the judgment and the permanent injunction entered by the CIT while the appellate court [...]
The U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued a decision invalidating Proclamation 11012, the February 2026 action that imposed a 10 percent across-the-board import surcharge under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. The court determined that the Administration relied on economic indicators that did not meet the statutory [...]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has identified May 11, 2026, as the anticipated date for the first refunds of International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) duties processed through the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries (CAPE) platform. The timing, confirmed through a recent U.S. Court of International Trade order, [...]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released the first operational data following the April 20, 2026, deployment of the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries (CAPE) platform. The update confirms that entries are now progressing through validation, liquidation, and into early refund processing. It does not change the Phase 1 [...]
