The presidential proclamation amending the Harmonized Tariff Schedule to implement a hefty five-year update will likely be published in the coming days, which would set an effective date in late January for the lengthy list of changes. The White House released the proclamation Dec. 23 (see 2112230012), though a publication date in the Federal Register had not yet been scheduled as of press time. The date of publication triggers a 30-day countdown before the changes take effect.
The White House released its much anticipated proclamation amending the tariff schedule to implement the five-year update to the World Customs Organization’s Harmonized System tariff nomenclature. The widespread changes to the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule will take effect 30 days after the proclamation is published in the Federal Register.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 13-19:
No conference committee members for the Senate China package have been appointed, even though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said a month ago the package would go to conference "immediately" with House bills (see 2111180009).
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 6-12:
How to manage China's market distortions is an ever-present question in the relationship between the U.S. and the EU and will need to be addressed eventually, the deputy director-general of BusinessEurope and the president of the China Center at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said during a Dec. 9 Chamber event. Luisa Santos, from BusinesEurope, said that she sees new ambitions in Europe to address the disruption caused by non-market economies, including an anti-coercion tool that was just announced. But, she said, there needs to be more work in coordinating with the U.S. and Japan on how to address subsidies, state-owned enterprises and forced technology transfer. "I think one of the most important things to agree on what we think is a distortive subsidy and then the best way to address it," she said.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Dec. 9. The following headquarters rulings were modified recently, according to CBP:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Nov. 29 - Dec. 5:
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., criticized business interests as more allied with Chinese interests than with American ones, and said that even as a Uyghur Forced Labor bill was expected to advance in the House, it wasn't much closer to becoming law.
John Butler, CEO of the World Shipping Council, said ocean carriers are getting mixed messages from the White House, which is encouraging carriers and ports to rev up their leverage on buyers and freight forwarders so that they pick up their cargo promptly, and from Congress. The House of Representatives is expected to vote on an Ocean Shipping Reform Act that would give the Federal Maritime Commission more authority to punish players for unreasonable demurrage charges -- the same fees used as leverage.