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 March 19, 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.
CBP has updated a list that provides all the recommendations passed by the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC). The list includes recommendations offered since the 14th term meeting in April 2016.
CBP on March 19 released guidance on 10% tariffs on Canadian energy goods in the form of a spreadsheet that lists commodities and their respective tariff subheadings that could be subject to the additional 10% tariff, rather than the 25% tariff applicable to other non-USMCA Canadian goods. Attached to a CSMS message, the spreadsheet includes not only petroleum products, uranium, coal and biofuels, but also rare earths covered by the 10% tariffs and metals of chapters 72, 73 and 76 that are alloyed with rare earths, among other things.
The FDA will delay the enforcement date of its 2022 food traceability regulations by 30 months to give industry more time to implement the new requirements, the agency said March 20.
Nearly 750 organizations and businesses gave input to the administration on trade barriers or subsidies that prevent them from reaching their sales potential.
CBP will very soon release a FAQ on some outstanding issues related to complying with the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum derivatives, particularly derivatives outside of chapters 73 and 76 (see 2503140059), according to a CBP official speaking during CBP's bi-weekly ACE trade support call.
Retail company Forever 21 blamed de minimis for "materially and negatively" impacting its business, in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in a Delaware court. The filing said that "certain non-U.S. retailers that compete with [Forever 21], such as Temu and Shein," have been taking advantage of de minimis to import goods into the U.S. cheaply and thereby "pass significant savings onto consumers."
President Donald Trump fired both Democratic commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission late on March 18. Now-former commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter both referred to their firings as "illegal."
The Energy Department is delaying the effective date of final rules that would amend the energy conservation standards for central air conditioners and heat pumps, gas-fired instantaneous water heaters (see 2412230039) and walk-in coolers and freezers (see 2412200039), it said in notices released March 19. The new effective date for all three rules is May 20.