Trade Compliance

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

USTR Releases List of Chinese Goods Subject to Next Round of Tariffs

Posted July 11, 2018

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

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative yesterday released a list of $200 billion worth of Chinese goods that could be subject to a new 10% import tariff in a move that if implemented would represent a massive escalation of President Trump’s burgeoning trade war with China.  Continue Reading

USTR Releases Proposed Tariff List on Chinese Products Under Section 301 Action

Posted April 04, 2018

Under International Trade Issues

The Trump administration yesterday released its proposed list of $50 billion in Chinese imports covering a wide range of products slated to be targeted by steep new levies of roughly $12.5 billion as part of its drive to force changes in China’s trade practices related to the coercive transfer of U.S. technology and alleged theft of intellectual property.  Continue Reading

Understanding Trump’s Section 301 Trade Action Against China

Posted April 02, 2018

Under International Trade Issues

Following a seven-month investigation by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative into Beijing’s “unfair” intellectual property and forced technology transfer practices, President Trump recently announced his intention to impose punitive tariffs on up to $60 billion worth of Chinese products and to take action to restrict any further investment by China in sensitive U.S. technology.  Continue Reading