Two Minutes in Trade

This week’s Senate Finance Customs Modernization hearing set the stage for productive dialogue in Congress to update trade laws reflecting modern day supply chains . Wet pet food and its 54 required import data elements tells the story perfectly.

New EU tracing requirements related to how goods are grown and deforestation coming into effect soon. Listen for more on today’s Two Minutes In Trade

BOOM! The CBAM is dropping. Effective 10/1/23 a transition to CBAM starts. Is the US far behind?  Listen for more on today’s Two Minutes In Trade.

PNTR for China is at risk of being revoked. Listen for more information on today’s Two Minutes In Trade.

As mentioned during our previous podcast, there’s lots of well-founded hoopla over the USTR’s approach to the section 301 tariffs. One need look no further than the oral arguments presented this week before the CIT concerning the tariff inclusion/exclusion process to see why.

The section 301 tariff exclusions on 81 COVID related Chinese products due to expire at the end of the month extended to 5/15; comments can be submitted now until 3/7. Listen for more on today’s Two Minutes In Trade.

A brief dive into the manufacturing standard under the Buy American Act of 1933 versus the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 for companies selling products directly or indirectly to the U.S  federal government.

En un acontecimiento de especial relevancia para el sector textil, el estado de Nueva York promulgó una nueva ley a finales del año pasado que prohibirá a partir del 31 de diciembre de este año la venta en todo el estado de prendas de vestir que contengan sustancias PFAS que hayan sido añadidas intencionadamente a dichos artículos.

CBP is again proceeding with its deployment of the UFLPA Region Alert enhancement to ACE on March 18, 2023, adding a postal code requirement for certain applications.

CBP announces that palm oil imports from a major oil producer in Malaysia will no longer be subject to forced labor detentions. Resolving this issue took over two years and it is a new reminder that CBP expects importers and exporters to be proactive in monitoring supply chains and ensuring that the right set of policies, audits, and remediation producers are in place to prevent forced labor.