News & Advisories

The Increase 25% Tariffs on $200 Billion in Chinese Goods is Effective Friday BUT only if they are EXPORTED on or after May 10   (From Grunfeld Desiderio and Meeks Sheppard)  “Effective with respect to […]

Trump Threatens to Increase 10% Tariffs to 25% on $200 Billion in Chinese Goods Effective Friday, and Apply 25% Tariffs to all Remaining Chinese Imports   (From Sandler Travis)  On Sunday, May 5, 2019, President […]

USTR Proposes Section 301 Duties on $21 billion of products from EU (From our friends at Meeks, Shephard, Leo and Pillsbury) Further to our article last month, the long simmering U.S. complaint before the World […]

CBP redeploying officers to Southern border, expect long delays (From CBP) Last week, CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan was in El Paso for a press conference announcing the agency’s plan of redirecting CBP officers to the […]

China Section 301 duty increase to 25% delayed (From CBP) On February 24, 2019, the President directed a further delay in the duty increase.  Until further notice, the duty rate for the goods covered by […]

Notice of Modification of Section 301 Action  (From theOffice of the United States Trade Representative) The U.S. Trade Representative (Trade Representative) has determined to modify the action being taken in this Section 301 investigation by […]

The following may impact your import program. Please take a few minutes to go over these, as many of them are annual reminders that may require action on your part. Chinese New Year 2019 This […]

Tariffs on $200 billion worth of product to remain at the 10% rate President Donald J. Trump, and President Xi Jinping of China, have just concluded what both have said was a “highly successful meeting” […]

PierPass to Adopt Appointment System and Flat Fee for OffPeak Program (From a PierPass press release) PierPass, the entity that levies the traffic mitigation fees (TMF) in the ports of Los Angeles & Long Beach, […]