Thursday, January 24, 2019 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report Goods made with hardwood plywood and imported from China may be hit with antidumping and countervailing duties as a result of increased scrutiny by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The AD and CV duty orders on hardwood plywood products from China went into effect Jan. […]
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report [Editor’s note: The following includes information from articles originally published in the Dec. 28, 2018, and Jan. 7, 2019, issues of the ST&R Trade Report.] The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has announced the first batch of products that will be excluded from the additional […]
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 – 12:00pm EST – 12:30pm EST – $50 The current partial shutdown of the federal government brings substantial uncertainty for importers and exporters. Parts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other government agencies responsible for facilitating and enforcing trade are shut down or working with limited staff. This situation is […]
Friday, January 11, 2019 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report U.S. Customs and Border Protection is prioritizing the movement of cargo during the ongoing federal government shutdown but a number of its other trade-related functions have been put on hold. The following information on the current status of these services has been provided by CBP […]
Wednesday, January 09, 2019 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently completed one test of a potential use of blockchain technology and is looking to conduct additional tests this year. A blockchain essentially functions as a distributed ledger that records transactions in a verifiable and permanent way. Blockchain records are […]
Monday, January 07, 2019 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its website a final draft of the revised CBP Form 5106 (see attached), which will be renamed the Create/Update Importer Identity Form. This form is expected to be released in February when CBP plans to automate and […]
Friday, January 04, 2019 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report As of Jan. 1 U.S. Customs and Border Protection began enforcing the requirement for carriers to file an advance electronic manifest for Section 321 goods (those valued below the de minimis level of $800) transported by commercial trucks. As a result, carriers that make no attempt to […]
Thursday, January 03, 2019 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report U.S. Customs and Border Protection has determined that there is a reasonable suspicion that two importers are evading the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on stainless steel flanges from China by transshipping flanges forged in China through an intermediary supplier in the Philippines. As a […]
Thursday, December 20, 2018 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report The World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body has ruled that U.S. regulations on labeling imported tuna as dolphin-safe do not arbitrarily or unjustifiably discriminate against Mexico. The decision, which brings a decade-long case to a close, precludes Mexico from imposing $163.2 million worth of retaliatory sanctions […]
Monday, December 17, 2018 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report A planned increase from 10 percent to 25 percent in the Section 301 additional tariff on $200 billion worth of imports from China is being delayed from Jan. 1 to March 2. At the same time, China has announced plans to suspend a higher duty […]
Friday, December 14, 2018 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report As previously reported, the U.S. has announced a temporary delay until March 1, 2019, of an increase from 10 percent currently to 25 percent in the additional “Section 301” tariffs on $200 billion worth of imports from China while the two sides conduct negotiations on […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report U.S. Customs and Border Protection failed to ensure the timely collection, write-off, and processing of delinquent debt from importers during fiscal years 2014 through 2016 and instead settled for collecting funds from importer surety bonds that yielded less than one percent of the amount owed, […]