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The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced today more Section 301 tariff exclusions for certain imported Chinese products appearing on List 3. These products have been subject to Section 301 tariffs since September 24, 2018. The USTR determined that two 10-digit subheadings will be excluded in their entirety:
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On November 1, the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a decision arising from a longstanding dispute between the United States and China concerning certain methodologies used by the United States in anti-dumping (AD) proceedings involving imports of Chinese products. In this dispute, China argued that certain methodologies used by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce)…
In an October 28, 2019 memorandum for Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, the Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General (IG) issued a “management alert” over concerns about the “lack of transparency that contributes to the appearance of improper influence in decision-making” for the Section 232 steel and aluminum tariff exclusion process. While not requesting…
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has announced that it is seeking public comment on its consideration of extending certain product exclusions it granted in December 2018 in the ongoing trade dispute with China [update: USTR Federal Register notice of October 31, 2019]. These exclusions were part of the first round of…
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced today more Section 301 tariff exclusions for certain imported Chinese products appearing on List 3. These products have been subject to Section 301 tariffs since September 24, 2018. The USTR determined that 83 specific product descriptions will be excluded from the tariffs, covering 95 separate exclusion…
Merely nine days after implementing sanctions on Turkey for its military action in northeast Syria (see Trump and Trade Update of October 15, 2019), President Donald Trump announced that he was lifting those sanctions due to the continuing ceasefire along the border. The president stated that Turkey would be halting its offensive and make…
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has announced that it will begin accepting tariff exclusion requests on October 31, 2019, for imports of Chinese goods subject to a 15 percent tariff (Tranche/List 4 tariffs), which went into effect on September 1, 2019. This list encompasses products on List 4A of approximately…
On October 14, 2019, President Donald Trump announced U.S. economic sanctions directed at the government of Turkey in response to Turkey’s military action in northeast Syria, “including but not limited to indiscriminate targeting of civilians, targeting of civilian infrastructure, targeting of ethnic or religious minorities, or targeting or other actions that undermine the continued counterterrorism…
On October 11, 2019, in remarks to the press, President Donald Trump announced that the United States and China’s trade negotiators had “agreed in principle” to address issues involving intellectual property, financial services and agricultural sales between the two countries. In this “phase one” agreement, China agreed to purchase between $40 billion to $50…
On October 11, 2019, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) opened its electronic portal for petitions seeking temporary import duty suspensions and reductions in accordance with the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016. The ITC will accept these petitions until December 10, 2019 (see Trump and Trade Update of October 1, 2019).
This process…
