On July 9, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA announced it will again close the southern border to livestock trade “effective immediately,” after another detection of New World Screwworm in Mexico, it said in a July 9 news release. The agency had previously said it would reopen southern border ports to cattle, bison and horse imports in phases, with the Douglas, Arizona, port of entry the first to reopen July 7. However, the newly reported New World Screwworm case “raises significant concern about the previously reported information shared by Mexican officials and severely compromises the outlined port reopening schedule of five ports from July 7-September 15,” USDA said in the release.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as he attended the Association of Southeast Asian Nations conference in Malaysia, was asked by reporters how Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, the Philippines, Vietnam and Myanmar received the U.S., given the high tariffs the U.S. announced it will be imposing on those countries in three weeks.
House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Democrats jointly criticized what they called "ongoing trade chaos," and what they called secretive negotiations between the U.S. and countries under threat.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 9, 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.
Pirfenidone tablets with an active pharmaceutical ingredient made in Italy but sent for final processing in India is still a product of Italy for government procurement purposes, CBP said in a final determination released July 10. As the agency has said in a multitude of prior rulings, it found processing in a third country of an API into measured doses isn’t a substantial transformation if it doesn’t change the medicinal use of the API. Italy is a country designated as allowed for U.S. government procurement, while India isn’t, CBP noted.
In a social media posting the evening of July 9, President Donald Trump wrote, "I am announcing a 50% TARIFF on Copper effective August 1, 2025, after receiving a robust NATIONAL SECURITY ASSESSMENT."
The Brazilian president hit back at President Donald Trump via X late July 9, after Trump said Brazilian goods should face 50% tariffs over the country's censorship of X and other American platforms, and partly because of the trial of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for an attempt to stay in power when the current president won election.
Canada will face a 35% tariff on Aug. 1, based on a letter posted by President Donald Trump on social media late July 10. “Goods transshipped to evade this higher Tariff will be subject to that higher Tariff,” the letter said.
The head of the trade committee in the EU parliament said one of the sticking points in the negotiations with the U.S. is whether 50% tariffs on steel and 25% tariffs on cars and car parts continue to be collected as the two parties move from an agreement in principle to a detailed agreement.