President Trump announced he will impose an additional 10% tariff on the remaining $300 billion dollar of goods from China. These goods are on List 4, and include footwear, clothing,… Read more »
Category: General
Plastic Hangers Dutiable
In a recent ruling US Customs has reversed it ruling on allowing plastic hangers to be imported duty free as Instruments of International Traffic (IIT). In the past customs determined… Read more »
More Tariffs…….
I guess President Trump doesn’t want the EU feeling left out so he has threatened to add 89 tariff subheadings to the EU Aircraft Dispute. For those of you not… Read more »
Pier Pass Increase
Beginning August 1, 2019 the Traffic Mitigation Fee (TMF) also known as Pier Pass will increase 1.9%. The increase matches the increase in longshore wages and assessment rates which will… Read more »
Heavy Cargo Restrictions
Due to new draft restrictions put in place by the Panama Canal Authority many carriers are cutting back the amount of cargo they will load on their vessels. If a… Read more »
Mexico Tariffs
Another day, another tariff war. Every morning we wake up there seems to be new tariffs on some country who most Americans thought were our allies. Today’s fight is with… Read more »
Section 301 Lists
I know keeping up with the different lists has been difficult so I am sharing a link from Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg that shows all the affected HTS codes in… Read more »
GSP Termination for India
As of today, India is no longer designated as a beneficiary developing country. The removal is in response to President Trump claiming India’s duties on US goods are too high…. Read more »
List 3 Date Change
On Friday the USTR announced they will extend the amount of time for goods to arrive into the United States before they will be charged 25%. Originally the cut off… Read more »
SOME Section 232 Duties Lifted
Effective May 20th, 2019 the Section 232 duties on aluminum and steel from Canada and Mexico have been lifted. The proclamation states that an agreement has been reached to prevent… Read more »