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 Feb. 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.
George Bogden has been appointed the new executive director of CBP's Office of Trade Relations, the agency confirmed Feb. 25. Bogden has served as a fellow at various think tanks, including the Steamboat Institute, which praised Bogden for his "spirit of principled leadership and a deep commitment to the values of free markets, limited government, and individual liberty." He has also had fellowships with the Yorktown Institute, the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, the Hungary Foundation, Columbia Law School, the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute, and the German Marshall Fund. In addition, he previously served as a senior law clerk at the Court of International Trade and as an associate director at the Hudson Institute. According to his LinkedIn profile, he started at CBP in January.
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President Donald Trump directed the Commerce Department to launch a Section 232 investigation on copper and copper products, which will cover the effect of imports of copper, copper concentrates, refined copper, copper alloys, scrap copper and copper derivative products on national security -- specifically, how they affect domestic copper mining, smelting and refining. The investigation is not limited to those categories; as the order says, it should look at "imports of copper in all forms."
The Coalition for a Prosperous America announced that its CEO Michael Stumo is joining the Office of Management and Budget as associate director for economic policy and Buy America. Jon Toomey, a former Republican House staffer and the group's lead government relations staffer, has been promoted to president of the organization.
The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), a forum of U.S. and EU consumer organizations, issued a statement Feb. 24 urging the Trump administration to cease threatening tariffs on the European Union.
The Alliance for Chemical Distribution asked the Trump administration to support a renewal of the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program in Congress. The GSP program has been expired for more than four years.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Feb. 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):
The International Trade Commission is seeking public input on remedies for its Section 337 investigation on Amarte's eye cosmetics (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1407), the ITC said in a notice to be published Feb. 25. The ITC initially began the investigation in July 2024 based on allegations that 10 companies were importing "certain eye cosmetics and packaging thereof that allegedly infringe" Amarte's patents (see 2407160015). The ITC partially terminated the investigation with respect to five of the respondents and found the remaining five in default. The ITC is requesting written submissions by “close of business” on March 6.