NEW YORK -- Geodis Vice President Ed Fitzgerald and Maytee Pereira, Customs and International Trade co-leader at PwC, told trade compliance professionals that CBP scrutiny is getting stricter.
NEW YORK -- Although the president's obsession with domestic manufacturing doesn't extend to apparel, there are no signs the administration will adjust tariff policy to make clothing imports more affordable, or even adjust rules of origin to privilege nearshoring, an old Washington hand told the U.S. Fashion Industry Association annual conference audience.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., asked the FDA when illegal nicotine vaping devices will disappear from U.S. store shelves, and what additional authorities they need to curb the distribution of these products.
Several Democratic senators talked about their legislative efforts to rein in President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff hikes the same day that the Supreme Court grappled with the question of whether Congress gave away too much of its power to the president to set tariffs.
NEW YORK -- Apparel import compliance professionals more used to thinking about bills of lading and purchase orders than the major questions doctrine had their hopes raised -- and dashed -- at the annual U.S. Fashion Industry Association conference.
More than 100 House Democrats asked the U.S. trade representative to make significant changes to USMCA as part of its six-year review, arguing that imports from Mexico and Canada are undermining U.S. autoworkers, steelworkers, aerospace workers and farmers.
As the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative considers whether the U.S. wants to continue the USMCA, it will evaluate more than 1,500 comments from farmers, manufacturers, retailers, civic society and broad business interests that operate in all three countries.
Leaders of the House Select Committee on China and Foreign Affairs Committee are asking the Commerce Department to use the Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services to restrict products from Chinese companies (or subsidiaries) operating in the U.S. across a range of products.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in two TV interviews, praised the president's trade diplomacy in Asia, and said "a price has got to be paid" for Ontario's ad quoting former President Ronald Reagan in support of free trade.
President Donald Trump said he "got sort of everything that we wanted" out of the meeting last week with Chinese President Xi Jinping, adding later that, "Because of tariffs, President Xi allowed us to win every single point."