A bipartisan bill has been introduced that would prohibit ships from either bringing passengers to the U.S. or bringing in goods if they docked at a port or marine terminal that was expropriated from a U.S. company in the Western Hemisphere.
A bill that would establish a critical supply chain resiliency and crisis response program in the Commerce Department passed in the House of Representatives May 15 on a 390-19 vote.
A bipartisan effort has begun to undo Treasury rulemaking that allows automakers a longer period to move away from Chinese graphite and other critical minerals, and allows them to continue to use rollup methodology to calculate the percentage of qualifying critical minerals (see 2405030060).
A bipartisan bill to require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a mandatory consumer product safety standard for retractable awnings passed the House May 14 by voice vote.
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 May 15, 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.
Aluminum composite panels with thermoplastic cores imported by K-Tex are subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders on common alloy aluminum sheet from China, the Commerce Department said in an April 29 scope ruling.
Aluminum capacitor foil imported by Instrument Transformers is covered by antidumping and countervailing duty orders on aluminum foil from China, the Commerce Department said in an April 29 scope ruling.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Senate appropriators that a proposed rule on connected vehicles should come out in the fall.
The exclusion from solar safeguard tariffs for bifacial solar panels -- originally meant to help utility-scale installations -- is about to end, the Biden administration announced May 16.