President Trump announced a temporary ceasefire in the ongoing trade dispute with China over this past weekend. The main outcome of the truce is that the U.S. will delay implementation of the List #3 tariff increase from 10% to 25% that was supposed to go into effect on January 1, 2019. The delay is supposed…
The USTR this afternoon published the finalized list for Trump’s 3rd round of tariffs on products from China. The original list had 6031 tariff subheadings. The final list contains roughly 5745 tariff subheadings. I highly recommend that importers take a close look at the tariff list to review which of their products may be impacted. Please note…
On July 10, 2018, the USTR published a 3rd list of products from China that are to be assessed tariffs. This group of products will be assessed tariffs at a rate of 10%. Note that this is different from the 25% rate to be assessed on list 1 and list 2 products. This 3rd list of products…
The USTR announced on Friday, July 6, 2018 the process for applying for exclusions from Trump’s first Section 301 Tariffs on products from China. The actual procedures for applying for the exclusion were later published in the Federal Register. Importers who have products on Trump’s first tariff list should make note of the following when considering whether they should apply for an…
President Trump has gone ahead and ordered the imposition of 25% duties on various products that are made in China. List #1 President Trump originally made his announcement of his intent to impose duties back on May 29, 2018. The original list of products to be subject to the duties was published by the USTR on April 6, 2018 and…
The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) is set to expire on December 31, 2017. Importers who have enjoyed lower duty or duty free status for products under GSP need to prepare themselves. This is not the first time that Congress has failed to reauthorize GSP at expiration. Assuming we do not see any quick action by…
This is a reminder for all food manufacturers and importers that it is time to renew your FDA Food Facility Registration. FDA shifted to a biennial registration policy back in 2014. Food importers are required to renew their food facility registrations on a biennial basis following FDA’s calendar. The biennial renewal period opened on October 1st…
October 29, 2020 This is an important message for all food importers. The FDA Food Facility renewal for 2021-2022 is now active. All food importers and foreign food manufacturers must renew their registrations by December 31, 2020. Here is the link to the FDA registration of Food Facilities website. There is one, very important, NEW…
