Tag: Import Compliance
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USTR confirms the 2018 technology transfer tariff actions did not lapse at their four year anniversaries after 162 continuation requests, and opens a second statutory review that will decide the fate of roughly $370 billion in covered trade WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2026 The Office of the United States Trade Representative confirmed this week that the…
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The melt and pour rule became mandatory on October 1, and Europe’s 50 percent out-of-quota duty now has the origin tracing it needed to work BRUSSELS, October 8, 2026 The European Union’s steel import regime passed its quietest and most consequential deadline a week ago, and most of the world’s exporters are only now discovering…
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Commerce and Customs have capped polysilicon and solar component imports through Dec. 4 to stop buyers from front-running the Section 232 tariff and minimum import price regime, with new importers limited to 12 kilograms of polysilicon a week and brokers warned they could lose their licenses. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2026. Federal trade officials have moved…
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A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade heard arguments this week on whether the administration’s forced-labor tariffs, covering roughly 99 percent of U.S. imports from 60 trading partners, exceed the authority Congress granted under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2026. The legal foundation of the United…
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The second tranche of Section 232 pharmaceutical duties reaches every remaining drugmaker this week, and the companies most exposed are the ones least able to build a factory WASHINGTON, September 30, 2026. The broadest tariff ever applied to medicines entering the United States took effect this week, extending duties of up to 100 percent on…
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A $15 billion Mesabi Metallics mill in Lee County becomes the administration’s showcase for 50 percent Section 232 duties, though the first coil will not be rolled until 2030 WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2026 President Donald Trump used an Oval Office event on Sept. 28 to announce a steel project his administration is presenting as the…
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Commerce proposes Section 232 duties on 14 more steel, aluminum and copper derivative categories, from brass instruments and floor safes to tanker trailers, with comments due August 27 WASHINGTON, August 8, 2026 The United States Department of Commerce is proposing to extend Section 232 duties to 14 additional categories of steel, aluminum and copper derivative…
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Commerce proposes Section 232 duties on 14 more metal derivative articles, from aluminum powder and brass instruments to tanker trailers and filled steel cylinders, with public comments due August 27 By the Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, August 7, 2026. The Commerce Department has proposed extending Section 232 metals tariffs to 14 additional categories…
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Commerce proposes sweeping 14 more product categories into the Section 232 metal tariffs, from brass instruments and fire extinguishers to cranes and trailers, giving importers until August 27 to object WASHINGTON, August 6, 2026 The Commerce Department has proposed adding 14 more categories of products to the Section 232 tariffs on steel, aluminum, and copper,…
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A 25-state coalition asks the Court of International Trade to strike down the Section 301 forced labor tariffs, calling the levies on 60 trading partners an unlawful revival of a tariff regime the Supreme Court already rejected WASHINGTON, August 6, 2026 The legal siege around the Trump administration’s rebuilt tariff wall tightened this week, as…