The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
From corporate giants to small companies, in farming, manufacturing and retail, Americans said tariffs on Canada and Mexico were damaging their businesses and driving up costs for customers.
Going from zero tariffs on most Canadian and Mexican imports to 25% convulsed Capitol Hill and foreign capitals, with some Republicans diverging from the president's protectionist message and Democrats universally using the action to attack Trump as the reason prices will go up.
The Trump administration appears likely to ramp up export controls against China with an aim of decoupling, two former senior U.S. economic officials said.
Rocket Lab is committed to a 2025 inaugural launch of its Neutron rocket. "We look forward to unlocking the medium launch bottleneck by bringing Neutron to the pad," CEO Peter Beck told analysts Thursday. Some have questioned whether Neutron would be delayed (see 2502250062). Beck said the company anticipates a trio of Neutron launches in 2026 and is building an ocean-based landing platform for the reusable rocket, meant to compete with SpaceX's Falcon 9.
A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping and countervailing duties on certain chassis and subassemblies imported from Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam. Commerce now will decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. The U.S. Chassis Manufacturers Coalition, which consists of the Cheetah Chassis Corporation and Stoughton Trailers, requested the investigation.
The FCC posted Friday its notice of inquiry concerning the upper C band and the NPRM asking questions in preparation for an AWS-3 auction, both of which commissioners approved 4-0 on Thursday (see 2502270042). As indicated during the meeting, the NPRM now contains a section on a possible tribal priority window that wasn’t proposed in the draft.
The Australian government is mandating universal outdoor mobile coverage for voice and SMS texting across the nation, with direct-to-device satellite connectivity to be a huge part of the coverage. Announcing the goal this week, Australia set an implementation deadline of late 2027. Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said the country's universal outdoor mobile obligation "will improve public safety, increase resilience during natural disasters, and provide an extra layer of coverage in areas previously thought too difficult or costly to reach. The experience will be different to land mobile networks, but the benefits transformative, particularly for a large continent such as ours."
A bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled a bill Feb. 26 that seeks to encourage foreign investors to report their U.S. farmland holdings to the Agriculture Department as required by law.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, R-Ark., introduced legislation Feb. 26 that would bar “foreign adversaries,” including China, from buying land near critical infrastructure, such as military bases and electric substations. The state legislation would "expand prohibitions" on Chinese government-linked companies’ property ownership by "preventing those companies from leasing property, owning property near critical infrastructure, and shortening the amount of time a banned company has to divest," a press release said.