The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for April 6:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for April 3:
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, speaking on Bloomberg television, implied an exemption for Europe to steel and aluminum tariffs could be linked to a broader trade deal. Ross was responding to a Bloomberg TV reporter who said the European Commission said the U.S. was looking to negotiate the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, commonly called TTIP. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who is in the Senate leadership, tweeted out the March 29 story on March 30. Ross dismissed the idea that reopening TTIP is news. Trump "terminated the Trans-Pacific deal. He did not terminate TTIP. We're open to discussions with the European Commission. That is nothing new. That's a long-standing objective." Last year, the European Commission said it would like to talk again about the TTIP if there's the political will to do so (see 1710170018). Despite the extended timelines normally associated with negotiating comprehensive trade agreements, Ross did not say whether the EU's current tariff exemption would be extended beyond May 1, when the temporary exemption is scheduled to end.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for March 29:
An additional two presidential proclamations related to Section 232 tariffs on aluminum and steel were published March 28 in the Federal Register. One new detail was released on how companies can make arguments that the steel or aluminum they import should be excluded from tariffs. The proclamation said the commerce secretary can take "into account the regional availability of particular articles, the ability to transport articles within the United States, and any other factors as the Secretary deems appropriate."
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for March 22:
The National Marine Fisheries Service is extending by an additional two days a grace period for new filing requirements on high-risk seafood imports (see 1712190028), CBP said in a CSMS message. Originally set to end April 7 (see 1802080025), NMFS is extending the “informed compliance period” for Seafood Import Monitoring Program ACE filing requirements until April 9 “to establish its conclusion on a weekday.” The extension “was determined to be in the best interest of trade and NMFS,” allowing “more resource availability of NMFS and CBP support personnel to confer with and assist trade should there be any release issues,” the CSMS message said. “Beginning April 9, filings for products flagged for NMFS SIM (NM8) data, with no SIMP data, that are incomplete, or that contain erroneous SIM PGA data, must be corrected before they will be accepted.”
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for March 16:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for March 15:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for March 14: