CBP created Harmonized System Update 2539 on Oct. 31, containing 38 Automated Broker Interface records and 17 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. It includes the Section 232 duties on Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (MHDVs), Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Parts (MHDVPs), and buses effective Nov. 1, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation 10984 issued on Oct. 17.
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NEW YORK -- Apparel import compliance professionals more used to thinking about bills of lading and purchase orders than the major questions doctrine had their hopes raised -- and dashed -- at the annual U.S. Fashion Industry Association conference.
The first class-action lawsuit against the president’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs was filed Nov. 4 at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Smirk & Dagger Games v. Donald J. Trump, D.D.C. # 1:25-03857).
Two Trump appointees, along with the three liberal justices, had sharp questions for the Trump administration's advocate as the Supreme Court held a nearly three-hour hearing on the constitutionality of tariffs imposed around the world under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Pete Mento is joining consultancy Baker Tilly to “lead and develop” its customs and global trade practice, he said on LinkedIn. The practice will “be focused on client solutions to manage and reduce tariffs with a strict eye toward compliance and technology driven solutions,” he said.
Software developer Descartes found that the majority of the 434 freight forwarders and customs brokers it surveyed globally are taking a wait-and-see approach to company growth amid worldwide macroeconomic uncertainties, according to the company's annual Forwarder/Broker Benchmark Study released this week.
The Air Forwarders Association will begin pressuring Congress to improve airport infrastructure to better handle air freight, the group's executive director, Brandon Fried, said at the Coalition of New England Companies for Trade's (CONECT) Northeast Trade and Transportation Conference on Oct. 30.
The World Customs Organization recently announced that it will consider a new explanatory note on the meaning of “price actually paid or payable” for the purposes of customs valuation using transaction value. The proposed explanatory note includes information on forms of payment, direct and indirect payments, adjustments, considerations based on decisions of the WTO Committee on Customs Valuation, and deductions, “such as payments not related to the goods and post-importation charges.” The note “will be submitted for approval to the WCO Council at its June 2026 Sessions,” the WCO said.
Sheffield Hallam University ordered forced labor researcher Laura Murphy to stop her work on China in February, before lifting the ban in October and apologizing after Murphy threatened legal action, The Guardian reported Nov. 3. The U.K. university’s decision to halt the research came amid threats from the Chinese government and its concerns that the university’s insurance provider would no longer cover the work for defamation risk, the report said.