Trade Compliance

Everything You Need to Know About the Steel Safeguard Surtax

Posted October 15, 2018

Under Canadian Customs Issues, International Trade Issues, Trade Compliance News

The Trudeau government last week announced it will be imposing new restrictions on a range of steel imports as part of an ongoing effort to mitigate harm caused by the diversion of cheap steel products from China and other low-cost producers in the wake of the Trump administration’s Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs.  Continue Reading

Third Round of Section 301 Tariffs on China Go Into Effect, Without Tariff Exemptions – For Now

Posted September 26, 2018

Under Trade Compliance News

Unlike with the first two rounds of Section 301 levies which imposed a 25% tariff on $50 billion worth of Chinese imports, the Trump administration’s new 10% duty on another $200 billion that went into effect on Monday, does not include any provision for companies to seek exemptions from the new tax – a situation business groups are hoping to remedy before the rate climbs to 25% next year.  Continue Reading

Trump’s Conflicting Trade Policies Confusing U.S. Importers

Posted September 18, 2018

Under International Trade Issues, Trade Compliance News, U.S. Customs Issues

Following nearly a decade of legislative delay and political wrangling to obtain duty relief for thousands of products not available from domestic production, the hard-fought victory achieved by U.S. manufacturers working to revive the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill has largely been squashed by the Trump administration’s move this week to impose an additional batch of tariffs on Chinese imports.  Continue Reading

Reminder: U.S. Tariffs on Chinese Goods Worth $16 Billion Now in Effect

Posted August 23, 2018

Under International Trade Issues, Trade Compliance News, U.S. Customs Issues

Even while Chinese and U.S. officials are meeting in Washington this week trying to defuse tensions, both sides continued escalating their increasingly costly trade war, as the Trump administration today slapped an additional 35% tariff on another $16 billion worth of imports from China, prompting Beijing to immediately respond with retaliatory tariffs on a matching amount of goods imported from the United States.  Continue Reading

Finance Canada’s “Short Consultation” on Steel Imports

Posted August 16, 2018

Under Canadian Customs Issues, International Trade Issues, Trade Compliance News

Reacting to fears that Canada may be at risk of a “surge” of steel imports from other countries that could seriously disrupt the domestic industry in the reverberating wake of Trump’s metals tariffs, Ottawa says it intends to step up the government’s crackdown on the diversion of “unfairly priced” foreign steel products with a new round of safeguard actions.  Continue Reading

U.S. Imposes Tariffs on Another $16 Billion Worth of Chinese Goods

Posted August 08, 2018

Under International Trade Issues, Trade Compliance News, U.S. Customs Issues

The U.S. Trade Representative yesterday published a final list of Chinese imports worth roughly $16 billion to be hit with 25% tariffs starting on August 23, 2018, completing the first wave of U.S. tariffs on $50 billion related to the administration's Section 301 action against Beijing's intellectual property practices and other “harmful industrial policies.”  Continue Reading