Offering its thoughts as an amicus curiae to the Supreme Court’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs case, the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog said that if IEEPA does grant the executive the powers President Donald Trump claims, the law itself is unconstitutional under the nondelegation doctrine (Donald J. Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, U.S. 25-250) (Learning Resources v. Donald J. Trump, U.S. 24-1287).
CBP's analysis of substantial transformation is moving away from its essential character test toward a more holistic review of the final stage of assembly, according to Matthew Bock, managing partner at Bock Trade Law.
There is a directive from President Donald Trump to quickly land deals in steel, aluminum and energy, according to Canadian Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who spoke to Canadian reporters in the late afternoon Oct. 7, after a White House visit accompanying Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Mexican media reported that President Claudia Sheinbaum said in her daily press conference that Mexico will try to get an exemption from the announced 25% tariff on medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
The addition of caustic soda as a high priority sector for forced labor enforcement through the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act represents an entirely new compliance challenge for importers because of its ubiquity and difficulty to trace, according to an Oct. 6 report by risk intelligence firm Kharon.
On Oct. 6, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Southern Shrimp Alliance has criticized the FDA for failing to address an "unprecedented amount" of banned antibiotics in imported Indonesian shrimp, according to an Oct. 7 statement by the group.
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, in trying to elaborate on the "significant tariff relief" he said was coming for domestic car production, said that the administration is considering how to "open the aperture" of how you use the 3.75% offset of tariffs available for autos assembled between April 3 and May 1, 2026.
Judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit pressed counsel for importer Blue Sky the Color of Imagination and the government during oral argument on Oct. 7 in the importer's customs classification suit on its notebooks with calendars. During the argument, Judges Alan Lourie, Raymond Chen and William Bryson grappled with whether the court is bound by its 2010 ruling in Mead v. U.S. and whether the goods are properly classified as calendars or diaries (Blue Sky The Color of Imagination v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 24-1710).
CBP is committing to using HAP International's TRACE ID program, following a "successful" technical assessment of the "shipment-level traceability data" it provides, the company announced Oct. 7. CBP is "taking steps towards" a formal Memorandum of Agreement with the company to use the program that provides "detailed product-level traceability information" before shipments arrive in the U.S., the company said.