Share Logistics, a company headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands, has acquired New Jersey-based customs broker Export-Import Services, the buyer announced in a June 13 news release.
Trade groups representing steel pipe and tube producers, along with Optimus Steel, Zekelman Industries, Atkore and the Coalition for a Prosperous America are asking the president to either reimpose tariffs on Mexican steel under Section 232, or impose quotas that reduce the import of products that are now imported in greater quantities than before 2017.
The Aluminum Association, in its weekly newsletter emailed May 24, said it had expected aluminum products that aren't subject to any Section 301 tariffs to be included in a new 25% tariff, but only 31 HTS codes will be covered (see 2405220072).
Manufacturing trade groups from the U.S. and Mexico told President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that government actions to respond to mass migration across the U.S. border "risk making critical supply chains between the United States and Mexico less resilient and dependable."
The Aluminum Association cheered the Mexican decision to apply tariffs to 544 tariff lines in aluminum and aluminum products. The tariffs are as low as 5% or 10% on some products, but are 25% and 35% on most.
The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America told President Joe Biden that removing tariffs on shoes doesn't require public policy reviews but "just the stroke of your pen to help lower shoe prices."
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group representing car manufacturers, recently wrote the White House to say that if Cleveland-Cliffs purchases U.S. Steel, more than two-thirds of steel used in vehicles would be produced by the resulting company. Cleveland-Cliffs has been agitating against Nippon Steel, which made a higher bid for U.S. Steel.
Descartes Systems Group is buying export compliance solutions and content provider OCR Services, it said March 28. Descartes acquired OCR for about $90 million.
The American Apparel and Footwear Association, in addition to expressing hope that the U.S. government will support measures to end the gang violence convulsing Haiti, asked the leaders of the House and Senate to renew trade preferences programs scheduled to expire at the end of September 2025.
FedEx rejected Prosperous America CEO Michael Stumo's characterization of the company as being involved in drug trafficking. Stumo on March 6 accused both FedEx and UPS of being "drug mules" (see 2403060089), because they are conduits for fentanyl entering in the de minimis environment. The company "has extensive security measures in place to deter and detect the use of our networks for illegal purposes, and we have a long history of close collaboration with law enforcement and regulatory authorities to quickly identify and prevent unlawful uses of our networks," a FedEx spokesperson said. "This includes illegal shipments such as illicit fentanyl."