The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of chassis from Mexico and Thailand, it said in a fact sheet issued July 29. Commerce will set CVD rates at 133.18% for Mexican exporters and ranging from 2.24% to 9.42% for Thai exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Commerce is conducting concurrent antidumping duty investigations on the same product from Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam, with a preliminary determination expected by Sept. 24.
On July 29, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Court of International Trade on July 29 denied importers Johanna Foods' and Johanna Beverage Company's application for a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump's threatened 50% tariff on Brazil. Judge Timothy Reif held that the importers failed to show "a likelihood that immediate and irreparable harm would occur before the threatened August 1, 2025 tariff" (Johanna Foods v. Executive Office of the President of the United States, CIT # 25-00155).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 29, 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 July 30 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 31), which includes a final determination concerning pirfenidone tablets and two Court of International Trade slip opinions.
The ability to import low-value packages duty-free will end for goods from around the world on Aug. 29, the president declared in an executive order July 30.
President Donald Trump, in a July 30 social media post, said that he had "agreed to a Full and Complete Trade Deal with the Republic of Korea. The Deal is that South Korea will give to the United States $350 Billion Dollars for Investments owned and controlled by the United States, and selected by myself, as President. Additionally, South Korea will purchase $100 Billion Dollars of LNG, or other Energy products and, further, South Korea has agreed to invest a large sum of money for their Investment purposes."
President Donald Trump said July 30 that Indian goods will face a 25% tariff, plus an unspecified penalty, for buying Russian energy and military equipment "at a time when everyone wants Russia to STOP THE KILLING IN UKRAINE... ."
The scope of the Section 232 copper tariffs is narrower than was expected, as the 50% rate only applies to semi-finished copper products, such as copper pipes, wires, rods, sheets, and tubes, and products that use a lot of copper, such as pipe fittings, cables, connector and electrical components -- not to copper ores, concentrates, mattes, cathodes, anodes, or copper scrap.
The ability to buy low-value goods from outside the U.S. and avoid duties will end Aug. 29. President Donald Trump signed an executive order effecting the change, but it hasn't been published yet.