Exclusion requesters will have seven days from the opening of the rebuttal period to submit rebuttals. Objectors to exclusion requests will then have a seven-day surrebuttal period to post responses, which will be opened once rebuttals are posted by the Department and the case file is reopened. To further assist industry moving through the process, … Continue reading Need to Watch your Product Exclusion for Rebuttals?
This is an involved process which will require the expertise of your Customs Broker! To request an administrative refund for previous imports of excluded products granted by the US Department of Commerce (Commerce), importers may file a post summary correction (PSC) and provide the product exclusion number in the Importer Additional Declaration Field. Once products … Continue reading EXCLUSION GRANTED – How to Request a Refund of Tariffs Paid
By Bracewell, LLC What just happened? The US, Mexico, and Canada agreed to a revised version of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA. The new agreement is called “United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement” (USMCA). The Trump Administration framed the deal as a new model for trade agreements that balances the concerns of business groups that depend … Continue reading NAFTA No More: Introducing the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement
The AWPA has been tracking Section 232 Product Exclusion Requests, Objections and Decisions in the Bar, Rod and Wire sector. These include products of Carbon, Alloy and Stainless material. By the Numbers 12,215 Product Exclusion Requests were posted, as of September 4, 2018 1597 Objections to Product Exclusion Requests were posted, as of September 4 … Continue reading Section 232 Product Exclusion Requests – By The Numbers
The domestic wire rod industry has submitted a request to the US Department of Commerce (Commerce) to exclude grade 1078 and higher tire cord quality wire rod from the antidumping (AD) orders on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Korea and the United Kingdom. One other country which also supplies this product to … Continue reading Tire Cord Wire Rod Exclusion Request for Korea and United Kingdom
By Ryan Ong, National Association of Manufacturers On September 25, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, USTR Robert Lighthizer met with his counterparts from the European Union (Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade) and Japan (Hiroshige Seko, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan). The three parties discussed a … Continue reading Lighthizer Meets with EU, Japan Counterparts on Joint Activity on China, WTO
by the National Association of Manufacturers Top Line: The Chinese government overnight responded directly to yesterday’s formal announcements from President Trump and USTR to impose 10 percent tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports (List 3), announcing plans to impose its own retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. exports at either a … Continue reading China Hits US Exports with $60b in Retaliatory Tariffs
text from the Metals Service Center Institute The week of September 10 , it was reported that Canadian Foreign Minister Chyrstia Freeland was going to be in Washington, DC on Wednesday to continue negotiations to try to save the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Freeland didn’t end up making the trip, however, sending members … Continue reading Capitol Hill Digs In: Trade Agreement Must Include Canada
by the Metals Service Center Institute On Monday, Sept. 10, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström met in Brussels to launch the US-EU Executive Working Group, which will seek to advance the US-EU trade agenda outlined during the July 25 meeting between President Donald Trump and European Commission … Continue reading US-EU Start Trade Talks
Yesterday evening, the President formally announced tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports starting one week from today on September 24. The final version of List 3 retained the vast majority of tariff lines on the original proposed list, including 5,745 of the original 6,031 lines. The US Trade Representative (USTR) removed just under … Continue reading Trump Imposes More Tariffs on China – List 3
