The Court of International Trade (CIT) has granted a preliminary injunction in the Section 301 litigation—the lawsuit where thousands of importers are seeking to get List 3 and 4A Chinese tariffs vacated with duties refunded—as of July 6, 2021. This suspends the liquidation of plaintiff’s unliquidated entries from China that are subject to List 3…
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Beginning October 1, 2021, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will start enforcing Lacey Act import declaration requirements on 27 new tariff lines. This marks the sixth phase of Lacey Act declaration enforcement, which was delayed from October 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the new products include essential oils; trunks,…
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How many companies have been exporting for years and lack an export compliance program? A U.S. security equipment manufacturer was recently fined $140,000 for illegally exporting products, such as stun guns, police batons, handcuffs, and pepper spray, to countries in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) found…
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The U.S. Department of Commerce has published a notice regarding aluminum licensing requirements. Aluminum import licenses will be required for entries of covered aluminum products beginning June 28, 2021. This notice also confirms that the stay of the regulations entitled “Aluminum Import Monitoring and Analysis System” will be lifted on June 28. The licensing process…
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The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule, effective June 8, that amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to reflect the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) formal termination of its participation in the Arab League Boycott of Israel. Under this rule, certain “requests for information, action or agreement from the UAE” will…
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The European Union (EU) has announced that it will not increase its retaliatory tariffs for Section 232 tariffs—which adds a 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent on aluminum imports. Items on the EU retaliation list include whiskey, bourbon, orange juice, cigarettes, steel, motorcycles, yachts, and more. The retaliation was set to double the…
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The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) is accepting information on the level of U.S. and foreign content in U.S. exports in the following transformational export sectors through May 14: biomedical sciences; wireless communications equipment (5G); quantum computing; renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy storage; semiconductors and semiconductor machinery manufacturing; emerging financial technologies; water…
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The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has changed the base civil penalty amount for certain sanctions violations. This was done in order to reflect inflation adjustments for its civil monetary penalties. In a notice, the OFAC’s definition of “applicable schedule amount” was revised. This establishes a base penalty for non-egregious sanctions violation cases that…
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a “master answer” to the massive Section 301 litigation overwhelming the Court of International Trade (CIT). Thousands of complaints and cases are seeking to get list 3 and 4A Chinese tariffs vacated with duties refunded. Complaints have been coming in at the rate of about one a day,…
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The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is increasing its maximum civil monetary penalties for the following sanction and recordkeeping violations to account for inflation, effective March 17. Along with the increases, there are several technical changes to “consolidate or shorten” certain citations in OFAC’s regulations. $1,548,075 (previously $1,529,991) for violations of the Foreign Narcotics…
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