The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on April 3:
Members of Congress didn't split wholly along party lines in praising or panning the dramatic increase in global tariffs coming in the next week.
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 April 1-2, 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 released its April 2 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 14). While it contains no ruling notices, it does include one Court of International Trade slip opinion.
CBP created Harmonized System Update 2512 on April 2, containing 125 Automated Broker Interface (ABI) records and 35 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. It includes the latest adjustments on imports of automobiles and automobile parts into the U.S. (see 2504020081).
CBP has issued a withhold release order against Taepyung Salt Farm amid allegations that the company uses forced labor in its production of sea salt products, the agency said in an April 3 release.
President Donald Trump, on his flight to Florida on April 3, told reporters on the plane that "we put ourselves in the driver's seat" with the global tariff announcements, and now, "every country is calling us."
Multiple countries this week objected to President Donald Trump’s April 2 announcement of new reciprocal tariffs against trading partners (see 2504020072), saying they either plan to retaliate or are assessing how to respond.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., introduced a bill that would have future sections 232, 301 and 338 or International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs expire after 60 days unless Congress were to approve the tariffs imposed by the president.