The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology would have to develop a methodology for identifying the country of origin of red snapper and some species of imported tuna, if a bipartisan bill re-introduced in the Senate becomes law.
The Senate Commerce Committee is expected to take up a bill next week that would direct the Department of Commerce to work with the private sector to identify vulnerabilities in supply chains for critical goods, monitor supply chains in those industries, and identify ways that a supply-chain shock could affect manufacturing.
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 Jan. 28, 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.
Parts of brake discs used in airplanes are "parts of an aircraft" and properly classified under Harmonized Tariff Schedule heading 8803, the Court of International Trade held on Jan. 30. Judge Mark Barnett said that since the parts are "used for no other purpose," require "no further processing prior" to their use in a brake disc and have "no other substantial commercial application," they should be classified as aircraft parts.
CBP unlawfully abused its authority by engaging in retaliation against employees of importer Eteros Technologies USA after the company succeeded at the Court of International Trade in overturning the agency's detention of its marijuana-related drug paraphernalia, Eteros alleged in a new complaint at the trade court (Eteros Technologies USA v. United States, CIT # 25-00036).
President Donald Trump told a reporter at the White House that a 25% tariff on Mexican and Canadian goods "is coming on Saturday." When the reporter asked if oil would be excluded, Trump replied, "I didn't say that. We're going to make the determination probably tonight, on oil."
President Donald Trump, in response to a question from a reporter at the White House, said 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are coming on Feb. 1, on Saturday.
Altana, a New York-based, AI-informed global supply chain mapper, has determined that as many as 18,210 companies across the world could be exposed to corporate entities that DHS earlier this month flagged for potentially violating the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (see 2501140054). Of that group of more than 18,000 companies, 2,223 are U.S. companies.
Lack of coordination between the U.S. and the EU on trade policy will make it tougher to confront the economic threat posed by China, experts warned at a conference co-hosted by the Peterson Institute for International Economics.