In recent weeks, numerous shipments of holiday goods, inventory replenishment, e-commerce fulfilment, and even next spring’s home improvement merchandise have caused major congestion at U.S. West Coast ports like Los Angeles and Long Beach in California. The spike in import volume from mainland China into the U.S. is expected to [...]
On Monday, October 20, 2020, the United States and Brazil re-signed an updated and expanded Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation (ATEC) adding three key provisions for Customs Administration and Trade Facilitation, Good Regulatory Practices, and Anticorruption. “From their first meetings, President Trump and President Bolsonaro have shared a vision [...]
In a memorandum posted on October 13th, United States President, Donald Trump, requested the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Attorney General to develop a proposal for bigger fines and new legislation focused on ending the import of counterfeit goods through e-commerce platforms. The White House notice detailed the [...]
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On October 13, 2020 the World Trade Organization (WTO) reached a final decision, through arbitration, authorizing the European Union (EU) to take countermeasures against the United States for the trade impact of tax breaks provided to Boeing at a valuation of $3,993,212,564 USD annually. 15 YEAR BATTLE The fight between [...]
As people spend more time at home, food distributors are finding themselves racing to meet the growing demand for cold storage. Before 2020 consumer food spending evenly balanced between foodservice and grocery, now, an overwhelming shift to grocery and direct-to-consumer services is driving a growing boom for refrigerated warehousing and [...]
On October 2, 2020, USTR announced it had initiated Section 301 investigations into Vietnam’s policies & practices regarding currency valuation and the use of illegal timber in products manufactured in Vietnam. This could have an enormous impact on the trade community, with many U.S. importers having moved production lines to [...]
Since the initial filing with the Court of International Trade (CIT) on September 10, 2020, over 3,400 additional complaints have been submitted causing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to suggest using an established set of procedures to efficiently process all of the motions. International Trade Today outlined the DOJ advice [...]
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced it will lift Section 232 tariffs on Canadian imports of non-alloyed unwrought aluminum retroactively through September 1, 2020. Back on August 6th, the White House issued a proclamation imposing a 10 percent tariff on most Canadian aluminum imports citing harm to domestic industry. [...]
On August 12, 2020, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) decided to issue modifications to the list of products subject to the $7.5 billion WTO-awarded trade action for large civil aircraft against European Union, France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom. While the adjustments to the countermeasures [...]
