Tag: Trade Enforcement

  • Duty Fraud Net

    A $280 million transshipment complaint against a California tile importer and its chief executive, filed weeks after the Justice Department made trade fraud a corporate enforcement priority, signals that customs penalties are becoming the sharp end of US tariff policy. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2026 – The Justice Department is pursuing more than $280 million from…

  • Labor Tariffs

    Sixty economies mount a last-ditch defense as USTR faces a Monday deadline on forced labor duties covering 99 percent of United States imports By Monday, the Office of the United States Trade Representative must complete the most expansive Section 301 investigation ever undertaken, one that found every major American trading partner deficient on forced labor…