Despite continued aggressive rhetoric around trade policy, tariff levels heading into 2026 are likely to stabilize as the Trump administration pivots to affordability issues, according to Flexport executives speaking during a Jan. 8 webinar on tariff trends.
As CBP shifts its focus from trade facilitation and trade enforcement, conducting reasonable care is no longer enough, and importers must be prepared to do much more, according to the lead analytical content manager for risk management provider Sayari.
A memorandum of understanding may serve as a bona fide order if an instrument was imported under the Florence Agreement, CBP said in a recent ruling that overturned a previous CBP decision.
A recent antidumping petition on fresh winter strawberries from Mexico highlights a rarely used provision of the antidumping statute that allows the International Trade Commission to narrow the injury analysis to only a particular region in the U.S. Trade lawyers told us that there's clear statutory authority for a regional injury petition, but that the analysis may require a more pervasive showing of injury throughout the affected industry than an ordinary, nationwide injury analysis.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on chromium trioxide from India (A-533-944) and Turkey (A-489-856), as well as its countervailing duty investigation on chromium trioxide from India (C-533-945). The CVD investigation covers entries for calendar year 2024. The AD investigations cover entries July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025.
A domestic coalition recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting antidumping and countervailing duties be imposed on fresh winter strawberries from Mexico. 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 investigation was requested by the Strawberry Growers for Fair Trade, which consists of Florida-based companies and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
In the Dec. 31 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 49), CBP published proposals to revoke a ruling letter relating to the tariff classification of a combination automotive fuel pump and fuel level sensor.
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The 25% tariffs on upholstered furniture, and wooden cabinets and vanities will continue throughout 2026, instead of increasing to 30% for furniture and 50% for cabinets and vanities, as initially indicated in September (see 2509300017).
CBP on Dec. 30 created Harmonized System Update 2543 containing 4,893 Automated Broker Interface records and 872 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2543 includes the end-of-year Harmonized Tariff Schedule updates, effective Jan. 1.