Tag: Customs

  • EU Melt Rule

    Brussels switches on melt-and-pour origin tracing as the 50 percent out-of-quota duty bites, redrawing the map of who may sell steel into Europe BRUSSELS, October 1, 2026 / The European Union’s steel import regime crossed its most consequential threshold on Wednesday night, as the melt-and-pour origin requirement written into Regulation (EU) 2026/1384 took effect and…

  • Ban Takes Hold

    Washington’s Section 338 prohibition on nearly US$1 billion of Canadian dairy, alcohol and motorcycles came into force on September 29, converting a tariff wall into a closed door and leaving Canadian exporters with no duty-paid workaround. OTTAWA, October 1, 2026. At 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, September 29, United States Customs and Border Protection…

  • Refund Gridlock

    CBP opens the third phase of its tariff refund system on Oct. 6, but only for importers who sued. Seven months after the Supreme Court voided the IEEPA tariffs, roughly 50 billion dollars is still unreturned and the court has not said whether everyone else gets in WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2026 On Sept. 15, a…

  • Pharma Tariff

    At 12:01 a.m. Monday the transition heading that has held most branded drug importers at zero since July expires, and the Section 232 pharmaceutical regime reaches everyone outside seventeen named companies. There is no in-transit grace. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2026 – The second and larger phase of the United States Section 232 pharmaceutical tariff takes effect…

  • Tire Labor Row

    USTR invokes the USMCA rapid response labor mechanism against a Japanese-owned tire plant in Coahuila and suspends liquidation on its entries, citing in the same breath the closure of Yokohama’s Salem, Virginia factory and the loss of nearly 600 American jobs. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2026 – The Office of the United States Trade Representative invoked the…

  • Mail Entry Test

    Customs and Border Protection opened its Entry Type 13 pilot this week, putting an electronic informal entry pathway under the international postal stream for the first time and giving low-value shipments carrying Section 232 and Section 301 duties a route that does not run through formal entry. WASHINGTON, September 24, 2026 The single largest unresolved…

  • CETA Paper Cut

    India drops the routine Form-I requirement for preferential claims on British goods, resolving a compliance clash that had been blunting the tariff benefits of the two-month-old trade agreement. NEW DELHI, September 27, 2026 India’s Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has removed the requirement for importers to submit Form-I with every bill of entry…

  • Canberra TCOs

    Australia publishes eight tariff concession records in a single day, seven of them liberalising, one restrictive, with retroactive dates stretching back to June. The tranche is routine administration, and that is exactly why importers should read it. CANBERRA, 24 September 2026. Australia on 23 September published a tranche of customs tariff amendments under its Tariff…

  • India Gold Peg

    India’s customs board has trimmed the benchmark import value it uses to tax gold even as bullion trades near record highs, while nudging up the floor prices applied to palm oil, soybean oil and brass scrap in the latest turn of its fortnightly valuation cycle. NEW DELHI, Sept. 1: India’s Central Board of Indirect Taxes…

  • Refund Logjam

    With 132 billion dollars in invalidated IEEPA tariffs moving through CBP’s refund pipeline, a delayed third phase, 1.7 billion dollars stranded over missing bank details, and a government appeal threaten to slow the largest duty giveback in American history WASHINGTON, September 1, 2026: The largest customs refund operation ever attempted by the United States government…