Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., a member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, told International Trade Today that Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith, R-Neb., is looking to pass a renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act "now that we got the big, beautiful bill through," adding that Smith has wanted to do this "for a while."
Surety company U.S. Specialty Insurance Company argued in an Aug. 29 complaint at the Court of International Trade that CBP failed to use transaction value to value importer Cheer Rise's garment entries. Instead, the agency arbitrarily decided to use the "fall back method" of appraisal, "rendering the appraisement unlawful," the complaint said (U.S. Specialty Insurance Co. v. United States, CIT # 25-00188).
CBP began developing a system to automate duty and fee calculations for global mail entries in May, but the target deployment date for the functionality is still to be determined, according to the agency's ACE Development and Deployment Schedule for August.
The Commerce Department is correcting a company listed in the recent final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from Italy (C-475-841) for setting final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered in calendar year 2023.
Although CBP has provided guidance on how to file entries for steel and aluminum derivatives under the Section 232 tariffs, some trade community members are still unclear about how to determine the value of the steel or aluminum content in more complex situations, according to trade attorney George Tuttle, speaking on an Aug. 27 webinar.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Aug. 29 said President Donald Trump exceeded his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act by imposing the reciprocal tariffs and tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico to combat the flow of fentanyl. Declining to address whether IEEPA categorically provides for tariffs, though spilling much ink on the topic, a majority of the court held that IEEPA doesn't confer unbounded tariff authority (V.O.S. Selections v. Donald J. Trump, Fed. Cir. #s 25-1812, -1813).
The Commerce Department last week published its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anti-circumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope rulings for the period April 1, 2025, through June 30, 2025:
CBP's CTPAT program has published an alert outlining how the trade community can be vigilant against illegal transshipping. Although the document is dated July 16, it was posted just last week on CBP's website.
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether imports of paper plates from Cambodia and Malaysia are circumventing antidumping duties and countervailing duties on paper plates from China (A-570-164/C-570-165), it said in a notice published Aug. 22.
CBP has announced the Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheadings that will apply for goods imported from India that are subject to an additional 25% tariff beginning Aug. 27, according to an Aug. 25 cargo systems message and a Federal Register notice.