The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) has announced three recent actions as described below. Amendments to Two China 301 List 1 Exclusions – Effective with respect to goods
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) has issued a notice requesting comments on whether certain soon to expire China 301 tariff exclusions should be extended. The exclusions at
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) has issued two notices requesting comments on whether certain soon to expire China 301 tariff exclusions should be extended. The exclusions at
On April 23, 2020, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that 108 items will be excluded from the Section 301 trade remedies imposed on Chinese-origin products. The newly announced exclusions
In an April 10, 2020 Federal Register notice, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced extensions for certain soon to expire exclusions from the China 301 List
On March 25, 2020, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that 12 items will be excluded from the Section 301 trade remedies imposed on Chinese-origin products. The newly announced exclusions
In a March 23, 2020 notice, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) has solicited comments identifying additional medical-care items that should be excluded from China Section 301
Latest Update On March 20, 2020, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that 182 items will be excluded from the Section 301 trade remedies imposed on Chinese-origin products. In addition
In a notice to be published in the Federal Register of March 19, 2020, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced extensions for certain soon to expire
On March 12, 2020, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced two new groups of exclusions from the Section 301 trade remedies imposed on Chinese-origin products.
On February 19, 2020, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that 47 additional HTS provisions and product descriptions will be excluded from the Section 301 trade remedies imposed on Chinese-origin
On February 10, 2020, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that 4 additional HTS provisions and product descriptions will be excluded from the Section 301 trade remedies imposed on Chinese-origin
On December 31, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that 68 additional HTS provisions and product descriptions will be excluded from the Section 301 trade remedies imposed on Chinese-origin
On December 12, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that 44 additional HTS provisions and product descriptions will be excluded from the Section 301 trade remedies imposed on Chinese-origin
On November 26, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that 32 additional product descriptions will be excluded from the Section 301 trade remedies imposed on Chinese-origin products. The newly
On November 7, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that 36 additional product descriptions will be excluded from the Section 301 trade remedies imposed on Chinese-origin products. The newly
On November 4, 2019, Arthur W. Bodek will be speaking at a Continuing Legal Education webinar on the topic of United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) along with a panelist from each
The U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) has published notice in the Federal Register that the USTR will accept Exclusion Requests through an online portal for Chinese-origin merchandise listed on Section 301,
To date, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) has issued numerous sets of exclusions (covering a large number of products) from the Section 301 duties (Lists 1,
On October 2, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) published a list of E.U. products which will be subject to additional duty rates of 10% or 25% ad valorem, effective
On October 2, 2019, the World Trade Organization (“W.T.O.”) announced that the U.S. can impose $7.5 billion in tariffs annually on products of the European Union (“E.U.”), in retaliation for
On September 27, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that 203 additional product descriptions will be excluded from the Section 301 trade remedies imposed on Chinese-origin products. The 203
On September 17, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that 38 additional product descriptions will be excluded from Sec. 301, Tranche 3; this latest set supplements the first set
On September 17, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that 89 additional product descriptions will be excluded from Sec. 301, Tranche 2; this latest set supplements the first set
On September 17, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that 310 additional product descriptions will be excluded from Sec. 301, Tranche 1; this latest set supplements the six earlier
U.S. Customs & Border Protection (“CBP”) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which would amend the Customs Regulations to require customs brokers to collect and retain certain information from
On August 15, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that Sec. 301 tariffs of an additional 10% ad valorem on Chinese-origin goods will be applied based on the date