Legislation Will Block Imports Linked to Human Rights Abuses in China On December 16, 2021, Congress passed H.R. 6256, known as the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). The UFLPA establishes a rebuttable presumption...more
Last Friday, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) issued lists of products from six countries that may be subject to additional 25 percent tariffs. The proposed product lists identified by USTR are...more
On March 10, 2021, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published an extension of the COVID-19 related medical-care and response product exclusions from Section 301 duties covering imports from China. The agency...more
On December 2, 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) will begin detaining shipments of cotton-containing products from China, based on the concern...more
Importers of vinyl flooring filed a case at the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) on September 10, challenging the Administration’s application of tariffs on products from China on Lists 3 and 4 pursuant to USTR’s...more
On July 10, USTR published a notice of action in the Section 301 investigation of France’s digital services tax announcing the imposition of additional 25 percent duties on certain products from France covering an estimated...more
In response to growing calls of concern from the business community, Members of Congress and even from some within the Administration, President Trump issued an Executive Order on April 19 authorizing temporary relief of the...more
At the end of 2019, more than 4,000 petitions were filed with the International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking the temporary elimination or reduction of tariffs on products ranging from chemical manufacturing inputs to...more
On October 18, 2019, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced an exclusion process for products included on China Section 301 List 4A, which covers approximately $120 billion of imports. Imported products on...more
First Set of Exclusions Set to Expire December 28, 2019 -
On October 28, 2019, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced plans to begin considering extensions of up to one year for certain...more
On October 18, the United States Trade Representative announced an exclusion process for products included on China Section 301 List 4A, which covers $300 billion of imports. Imported products on this list are presently...more
On October 11, 2019, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) officially began accepting petitions to suspend/reduce tariffs under a process commonly known as the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill or MTB process. Under this...more
On October 15, 2019, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) will begin accepting a new round of petitions to suspend/reduce tariffs under a process commonly known as the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill or MTB process. Under...more
H.R. 4318 - the latest iteration of the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB) - was signed into law by President Trump on September 13, 2018. The signing is the culmination of a nearly two year process to identify “nuisance”...more
On July 10, 2018, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced it was initiating the process of imposing a 10% tariff on Chinese imports as a supplemental action under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. USTR’s...more
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On Friday, July 6, 2018, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced a process for U.S. interests to obtain product-specific exclusions from tariffs on Chinese imports as a result of the U.S....more
The New York Times reported on March 20 that the United States was seeking to table a proposal in the NAFTA negotiations to limit the placement of consumer warnings on food packaging with respect to foods that are high in...more
The House of Representatives passed on January 16, 2018 a bill providing temporary duty relief on about 1,800 imported products that are not available or produced in the United States. The Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce self-initiated antidumping and countervailing investigations of common alloy aluminum sheet from China on November 28. An accompanying fact sheet estimates dumping margins on the subject...more
The House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee held a hearing on October 25th to discuss the new Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Process – overseen by the U.S. International Trade Commission with input from other federal agencies – to...more
A 60-day time frame for requests to suspend tariffs on qualifying imports opened on Friday, October 14 and run through Monday, December 12, 2016. During this period, requestors may submit petitions to the International Trade...more
Earlier this year, a new law revived the process for suspending tariffs on various products imported into the United States – known as the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill or MTB. The key change is moving from a legislative process...more
Earlier this month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) announced the establishment of a Trade Enforcement Task Force within its Office of Trade. According to the CBP, the Task Force is designed to “further protect...more
For decades, the Congress regularly suspended tariffs on hundreds of imported products to benefit American businesses and consumers. This legislation was referred to as the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill or MTB. In the last few...more
The House Ways & Means Trade Subcommittee held a hearing on April 14, to consider a new process for the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB), which temporarily reduces or eliminates tariffs on qualifying imported products. The...more