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 July 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.
CBP has released its July 23 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 30). While it contains no ruling notices, it includes six Court of International Trade slip opinions.
Former trade lawyer Scott Lincicome, who now leads the libertarian Cato Institute's trade division, said the administration learned the natural consequences of Section 301 tariffs when Chinese goods flow to India, Mexico and Vietnam as inputs to manufactured goods that are created in those countries.
CBP upheld its June 2024 ruling that the customer who buys the medication at retail -- not the retail pharmacy -- is the ultimate purchaser, and as a result, retail pharmacies must list the medicine's country of origin on the prescription label. This is the case even if the FDA's Drug Supply Chain Security Act doesn't require country of origin on the prescription label, according to CBP.
President Donald Trump, speaking with reporters July 25 before boarding a flight to Scotland, downplayed the possibility of reaching an agreement to impose lower than his threatened 30% tariff on EU exports.
Elio Gonzalez, a former Commerce Department attorney, has joined Alston & Bird as counsel in the Washington D.C. office, Gonzalez announced on LinkedIn. Gonzalez worked at Commerce for the past six years, joining as an attorney in 2019 and rising to assistant chief counsel in September 2024 before departing from the agency. Prior to joining Commerce, Gonzalez served as an attorney at CBP in Long Beach, California, for nearly five years.
A Government Accountability Office report released July 23 recommends that the Department of Transportation office handling multimodal freight infrastructure get better at identifying infrastructure needs and policy changes that affect the air cargo movements.
Section 232 tariffs are necessary to combat China's trade practices, the Coalition for a Prosperous America said in a July 23 report.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 24 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):