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Tariffs
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SmarTrade
Additional Legislation Introduced in Congress Seeks to Curtail Executive Branch’s Authority to Implement Section 232 Tariffs
By Thompson Hine International Trade
As reported in our post of January 25, 2019, members of the 116th session of Congress are seeking ways to address President Donald Trump’s authority to unilaterally impose tariffs under…
Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
US-EU Trade Agreement: Negotiating Objectives Released
By Joshua Morey
Introduction On 11 January 2019 and 18 January 2019, the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) and the European Commission (“Commission”) released their respective negotiating objectives for a U.S.-EU trade agreement,…
SmarTrade
Competing Tariff Bills Introduced in Congress
By Thompson Hine International Trade
This month, two bills have already been introduced in the House of Representatives that show the division among Republican Party members over President Donald Trump’s authority to impose tariffs. On…
China Law Blog
Tariffs on Chinese Products
By Adams Lee
There have been a couple recent developments regarding the Section 301 tariffs imposed by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) on a broad range of products imported from…
China Law Insight
US Government Granted Exclusion of 984 Chinese Products From 25% Tariffs
By King & Wood
The office of the U.S. Trade Representative (the “USTR”) has granted 984 individual product exclusion requests involving 21 separate HTS codes from the additional tariffs of 25% that went into…
International Trade Law
USTR: No Exclusion Process on $200 Billion List 3 Products Unless Tariff Raised to 25%
By Frances P. Hadfield, Edward Goetz
[caption id="attachment_3172" align="alignnone" width="300"] Photo by Vincent Guth on Unsplash;[/caption] On October 18, 2018, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) and ten other Democratic senators sent a letter to the Office…
China Law Blog
On Trusting China Manufacturers
By Dan Harris
[caption id="attachment_33863" align="aligncenter" width="464"] China manufacturing: Trust but verify. Better yet, just verify.[/caption] One of the things I love about my law firm's China practice is its diversity. We represent…
International Trade Insights
USTR Grants First Round of Product Exclusions
By Nithya Nagarajan, Katherine Stubblefield, Turner Kim
On December 28, 2018, the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) published in the Federal Register the first notice granting product exclusions for specific products from the Section 301 tariffs subject…
SmarTrade
U.S. Trade Representative Grants First Round of Product Exclusions for U.S. Imports from China Subject to Section 301 25 Percent Tariff
By Thompson Hine International Trade
On December 21, 2018, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced its first round of product exclusions for U.S. imports from China receiving a 25 percent tariff increase…
International Trade Law
CBP Posts Notice on Section 301 Product Exclusions Announced on December 28, 2018
[caption id="attachment_3169" align="alignnone" width="300"] Photo by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash;[/caption] Earlier this week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a notice on Section 301 Product Exclusions announced on December 28,…