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Dear Valued Customer, U.S. Trade Representative issued a news release on Feb 14 regarding the Large Civil Aircraft dispute, which also has a link to the pre-published (draft) Federal Register Notice. The following is a summary of the U.S. Trade Representative’s notice: Large Aircraft from the EU – 15% Effective March 18, 2020 USTR has

Compliments of Roll & Harris Dear Valued Customer, On January 24th, the White House released a new Presidential Proclamation that sought to expand the list of aluminum and steel products subject to the 10% (aluminum) and 25% (steel) Section 232 duties. The proclamation referenced two (2) annexes but the White House website did not include

Dear Valued Customer, The United States and China have signed an historic and enforceable agreement on a Phase One trade deal that requires structural reforms and other changes to China’s economic and trade regime in the areas of intellectual property, technology transfer, agriculture, financial services, and currency and foreign exchange.  The Phase One agreement also

The US-Japan Trade Agreement enters into force on January 1, 2020. Customs and Border Protection has given the requirements for claiming preferential treatment under this new Agreement per CSMS #41149692 as follows: In order to receive preferential treatment, a good must be originating and meet all the requirements of the U.S.-Japan Agreement. Annex II to

Washington, DC –  According to the U.S. Trade Representative, the United States and China have reached an historic and enforceable agreement on a Phase One trade deal that requires structural reforms and other changes to China’s economic and trade regime in the areas of intellectual property, technology transfer, agriculture, financial services, and currency and foreign exchange. 

Dear Value Customer, President Trump signs off on a phase-one trade agreement with China to avert tariffs set for Dec. 15, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter Update at 4:58 PM ET: The deal includes a promise by the Chinese to buy more U.S. farm products, the people said. The officials also discussed

Dear Valued Customer, Trump today announced that the U.S. and China has reached a “very substantial phase 1” deal as negotiators made progress on intellectual property, financial services and agricultural sales. He also stated that good progress had been made on issues around technology transfer from American companies to Chinese partners. The deal is “subject

Dear Valued Customer, According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. plans to swiftly impose tariffs effective October 18 on $7.5 billion in aircraft, food products and other goods from the European Union after the World Trade Organization authorized the levies Wednesday, citing the EU’s subsidies to Airbus. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Dear Valued Customer, According to Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, U.S. government sources have confirmed that a proposed increase in the additional tariff being imposed on $250 billion worth of imports from China from 25 percent to 30 percent will NOT take effect Oct. 1 but is still planned for Oct. 15. This proposed increase would

Dear Valued Customer, On August 23, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced further increases to all 4 tranches of the Section 301 tariff rates. This action was taken in response to China’s retaliatory tariffs assessed against U.S. products after President Trump had previously announced the imposition of tariffs against remaining Chinese goods that had