The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative issued a sixth list of product exclusions from Section 301 tariffs on goods from China. Newly exempt from the tariffs are "110 specially prepared product descriptions," the agency said. The exclusions cover 362 separate requests, according to the notice, which is scheduled for publication in the July 9 Federal Register. The product exclusions apply retroactively to July 6, 2018, the date the first set of tariffs took effect, and will remain in effect until one year after the notice is published.

President Donald Trump said he won't lift current U.S. tariffs, but also won't add tariffs on any more Chinese imports "for at least the time being." He said during a press conference at the G20 Summit in Japan that negotiations will resume "where we left off to see if we can make a deal."

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will begin accepting exclusion requests for the third tranche of Section 301 tariffs through a new portal on June 30 at noon, the agency said in a notice. The exclusion requests will be due through the portal at exclusions.ustr.gov/ by Sept. 30, with responses due 14 days after the request is posted on the portal, USTR said. Exclusions will be effective going back to Sept. 24, 2018, when the tariffs on $200 billion in goods from China were implemented with a 10 percent tariff.

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on June 7 reversed a lower court decision that found Ford’s use of tariff engineering legitimate to secure a lower duty rate on its imported cargo vans. CAFC held that, while post-importation activities such as the removal of passenger seats are irrelevant to classification, the relevant tariff subheading for “vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons” suggests some consideration of use. The van’s design features, including shoddy passenger seats, suggest they are intended for use as cargo vans of heading 8704, and subject to a higher duty rate, the Federal Circuit said.

President Donald Trump said the tariffs on goods from Mexico that were set to begin on June 10 will not take effect on that date after a deal was reached between the two countries. "I am pleased to inform you that The United States of America has reached a signed agreement with Mexico," Trump said in a tweet. "The Tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the U.S. on Monday, against Mexico, are hereby indefinitely suspended."

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative issued a fifth list of product exclusions from Section 301 tariffs on goods from China. Newly exempt from the tariffs is one 10-digit subheading, 8537.10.8000, in its entirety, as well as "88 specially prepared product descriptions." The exclusions cover 464 separate requests, according to the notice, which is scheduled for publication in the June 4 Federal Register. The product exclusions apply retroactively to July 6, 2018, the date the first set of tariffs took effect, and will remain in effect until one year after the notice is published.

India will be removed from the Generalized System of Preferences on June 5, because President Donald Trump "determined that India has not assured the United States that India will provide equitable and reasonable access to its markets." The announcement came just after 8 p.m. on May 31. The end of GSP eligibility and removal of India's developing country status also means India will be subject to safeguard duties on solar cells and washing machines as of June 5.

Chinese imports subject to the third tranche of Section 301 tariffs that were on the water as of May 10 will stay at the 10 percent tariff rate through June 15. Originally, the tariffs were set to rise to 25 percent for entries on or after June 1. There will be a notice in the Federal Register next week, USTR said after hours May 31. "This limited extension will further account for customs enforcement factors and the transit time between China and the United States by sea," the press release said.

A five percent tariff will be imposed on “all goods coming into our Country from Mexico” beginning June 10, and will remain in place “until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP,” President Donald Trump said May 30 on Twitter. The tariff will “gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied,” he said. “Details from the White House to follow.”

The Commerce Department will set a retroactive antidumping duty cash deposit rate of 1,731.75 percent on some imports of Chinese mattresses, according to a pre-publication version of a preliminary determination issued May 29. The unusually high rate will apply to mattresses imported from the “China-wide entity,” i.e., all Chinese companies that didn’t certify they are independent of Chinese government control or producer-exporter combinations that weren't assigned an individual rate. The rate will also be retroactive to 90 days prior to the eventual publication date of Commerce’s notice. Commerce set rates ranging from 38.56% to 84.64% for other Chinese companies, with some of those duties retroactive as well, it said in a fact sheet .