GHY discusses changes to international trade regulations and explores cutting-edge compliance strategies.
Posted June 29, 2018
While the vast majority of products originally proposed as targets for retaliation against Trump’s metals tariffs remained unaffected by the public consultation process, the fact some did manage to avoid getting hit with new a new surtax speaks to the importance of being proactive when it comes to championing your cause with the government. Continue Reading
Posted June 29, 2018
Under Canadian Customs Issues, International Trade Issues, Trade Compliance News
The Trudeau government today released details of retaliatory countermeasures against the Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs that will become effective July 1, 2018. Repeating its objections to to the “national security” premise of the U.S. tariffs, Ottawa says it had no alternative but to respond to the U.S. trade action in a “direct, measured and proportional” manner by imposing “reciprocal surtaxes” on $16.6 billion worth of imports from the U.S. Continue Reading
Posted June 14, 2018
By using the most expansive possible interpretation of U.S. “national security” to justify what is inherently a matter of economics, some lawmakers have accused the administration of abusing the Section 232 process in order to deliberately avoid any congressional or independent economic accountability as it moves unilaterally to act on Trump’s protectionist “America First” trade agenda. Continue Reading
Posted June 12, 2018
A testy phone call last month between the leaders of Canada and the United States, that went viral after it was learned that President Trump had inaccurately quipped about a notable incident from the War of 1812, brought new focus to the officially stated reason behind the U.S. administration’s proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum products. Continue Reading
Posted June 08, 2018
Under Canadian Customs Issues, International Trade Issues, Trade Compliance News, U.S. Customs Issues
Largely overlooked amid the escalating dispute over the Trump administration’s latest actions against steel and aluminum imports are several important new trade enforcement measures that were recently implemented by the Trudeau government to further restrict the dumping and transshipment of these sensitive goods from China. Continue Reading
Posted May 31, 2018
Under International Trade Issues, Trade Compliance News, U.S. Customs Issues
The U.S. Commerce Department has announced that it will not grant any further exemptions to Canada, Mexico and the European Union from the Trump administration’s Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, thereby making them subject to additional duties of 25% and 10% respectively as of June 1, 2018. Continue Reading
