The U.S. is where the last substantial transformation occurred for Trimble's R980 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, according to a CBP notice released June 20.
CBP is preparing ACE to handle calculating estimated duties from entry summaries that might have more than two Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes attached, according to the agency's latest ACE development and deployment schedule for June.
The additional in-quota Section 232 tariff rate for British cars will be 7.5% under a deal recently concluded with the U.K., so that the combined most-favored nation and 232 tariff will be 10% as long as imports are under the 100,000 annual tariff rate quota amount, beginning seven days after the June 16 executive order is published in the Federal Register.
A bill that would create a criminal offense for "knowingly and recklessly importing high-risk agents, toxins or organisms" was introduced last week by Reps. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, and Josh Riley, D-N.Y.
The U.S. has the power to force some manufacturing out of Canada and Mexico and have it locate in the U.S., so that those cars or other products avoid tariffs, a think-tank analyst said at a Washington International Trade Association event.
Importer Monarch Metals told the Court of International Trade that its stainless steel wire imports are products of Japan and not China, meaning its goods were improperly subjected to Section 301 and Section 232 tariffs. In a complaint filed June 13, Monarch Metals said that under CBP's prior application of the substantial transformation test to steel wire, no substantial transformation occurs by drawing steel rod into steel wire (Monarch Metals v. United States, CIT # 24-00266).
The executive director of the U.S. office of the top association for Mexico's businesses echoed the upbeat line of his government, that the USMCA carveouts in the global trade war give Mexico and Canada a leg up.
When the Commerce Department published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on cold-drawn mechanical tubing from India (A-533-873) on April 14, it failed to include several related companies in its listing of the rate for Goodluck India Limited, it said in a recent Federal Register notice.
When the Commerce Department published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain metal lockers and parts thereof from China (A-570-133) on April 16, the notice stated incorrectly the cash deposit rate applicable to the China-wide entity.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: