The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls April 24:
On April 24, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to answer questions about why he told Wall Street investors that the U.S. is looking to de-escalate the trade war with China, and asked him to confirm if other executives heard information about progress toward a trade deal with India.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., asked Apple CEO Tim Cook about his private lobbying on tariffs on Chinese imports, and the fact that the carveout for the tariffs for electronics affected phones, computers and smart watches, which Apple makes, but not video game consoles.
In an interview with Time magazine, President Donald Trump said he delayed the country-by-country reciprocal tariff rates in early April not because the bond market was panicking, but because he needed time to come up with rates that they deserve.
Labor advocacy group International Rights Advocates filed a lawsuit this week against Starbucks on behalf of eight individuals who were trafficked and forced to work on "Starbucks-controlled coffee plantations in Brazil." The complaint, brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks class certification for all trafficked laborers in Brazil and alleges that Starbucks knowingly benefitted from this slave labor, which took place on thousands of supplier plantations (John Doe I v. Starbucks Corporation, D.D.C. # 25-01261).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website April 24, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
Former CBP Executive Director of Trade Relations George Bogden said April 25 that he had "fallen victim to character assassination," and that he was honored "to have played a role in advancing [President Donald Trump's] bold agenda on tariffs and trade."
CBP on April 24 quietly removed from its list of FAQs on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs a question about limits on informal entry.