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Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
U.S. increases tariffs on European aircraft: EU response a litmus test for transatlantic trade relations
By Kelley Drye
Last Friday the United States Trade Representative (USTR) ramped up its tariffs on European aircraft, increasing the duty from 10% to 15%, effective March 18. It also announced it would…
Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
Step Right Up: Opportunity to Shape new UK Tariff Policy
The United Kingdom will need a new most favored nation tariff regime as early as January 2021 when the current Brexit transition could come to an end and is calling…
International Trade Insights
USTR Announces Increase in Section 301 Tariffs for New Airplanes and Aircraft, Minor Changes for Other Goods
On February 14, 2020, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced that it had completed its review of the current Section 301 tariffs due to the ongoing Large…
SmarTrade
Congressional Democrats Demand Release of Section 232 Report on Automobiles and Auto Parts
In a February 13, 2020 letter to President Donald Trump, members of the New Democrat Coalition (NDC), a group of Congressional Democrats generally supportive of free trade, demanded that the…
International Trade Insights
Section 232 Derivative Product Duties – Time Sensitive Litigation Update
By Nithya Nagarajan, Jeffrey Neeley, Robert Stang, Camron Greer
Why importers of steel and aluminum derivative products should consider challenging the administration’s imposition of additional Section 232 duties: The processes followed by the administration in implementing additional Section 232…
SmarTrade
U.S. Importer Files Complaint Challenging Section 232 Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Derivative Products; Parties Agree to Injunctive Order on Importer’s Goods Only
By Thompson Hine International Trade
PrimeSource Building Products, Inc., a U.S. importer of various steel derivative products, filed a complaint (subsequently amended) in the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) on February 4, 2020, arguing…
SmarTrade
USTR Issues Additional Section 301 Tariff Exclusions for Certain Imported Chinese Products on List 1
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has published a Federal Register notice approving exclusions from the Section 301 tariff for four imported Chinese products appearing on the first…
Canada-U.S. Blog
China – U.S. Phase 1 Deal: Is It Enough?
By Su Ross
Originally published in January 2020 China and the U.S. signed the so-called Phase 1 deal on January 15, 2020. Much has been said in the general press and elsewhere about…
Canada-U.S. Blog
China – U.S. Phase 1 Deal – Means What?
By Su Ross
Originally published in the Journal of Commerce in January 2020 As has been widely publicized, China and the U.S. signed the so-called Phase 1 deal on January 15, 2020. The…
Global Trade Law Blog
Potential Impact of U.S.-France Trade Tension on U.S. Imports of French Products and Luxury Goods
By Sarah Ben-Moussa, Judith Fiorini, Reid Whitten
On December 2, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced that in response to a digital services tax law passed in France, it would be retaliating with stringent tariffs on…