Increased U.S. scrutiny of Mexican truck drivers' English-speaking proficiency is raising concerns within the drayage industry that drivers who cross the U.S. border and perform drayage within a limited distance from the border will be prevented from doing their jobs.
President Donald Trump, after talking with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Korea, told reporters that he will be lowering tariffs on Chinese goods by 10%, because China is going to crack down on fentanyl trafficking. A reporter on Air Force One asked about the fees that Chinese ships must pay when they arrive at U.S. ports, and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said those fees will be postponed while the two sides negotiate over what the U.S. calls market-distorting subsidies in the shipbuilding sector. In the 100-minute meeting, China also said it would delay an export licensing scheme for rare earth materials.
The U.S. is dropping 10 percentage points of the 20% fentanyl tariff on China, and is also lifting port fees on Chinese commercial ships, after President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in South Korea.
The Federal Communications Commission voted Oct. 28 to “close loopholes” in its restrictions on imports of telecommunications equipment by establishing a process to prohibit imports of previously authorized devices that were subsequently added to the commission’s Covered List of devices that threaten national security, it said in a news release.
On Oct. 28, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:
Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced a bill Oct. 29 to repeal reciprocal tariffs that apply to coffee imports.
In a hearing on the nominations for the chief agricultural negotiator and the deputy U.S. trade representative responsible for Africa, the Western Hemisphere and Europe, senators from both parties criticized the decision to import Argentinian beef and complained about foreign non-tariff barriers in agriculture.
President Donald Trump declined to put a new date on when immigration/fentanyl tariffs of 25% on Mexico would go up to 30%. Back on July 31, he said they would keep tariffs at the same rate through Oct. 29, as the two sides spoke about Mexico ending its non-tariff trade barriers.
As companies navigate the increasingly complex U.S. trade landscape, companies should "shift left" and adjust their trade compliance strategies so that potential compliance issues are caught upstream in areas such as sales, procurement and development before hitting the duty filing stage, a software developer said at the International Compliance Professionals Association conference in Grapevine, Texas, on Oct. 27.
A majority of senators voted to end the emergency underpinning an additional 40% tariff on the majority of Brazilian goods, with four Republicans joining the entire Democratic caucus.