The State Department last week approved possible military sales to Lebanon, Denmark, Italy and South Korea, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated on Dec. 5 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
As lawsuits seeking refunds of International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs at the Court of International Trade continue to mount, lawyers remain uncertain of the refund process that would be followed should the Supreme Court strike down the tariffs, including whether refunds will come via judicial or administrative pathways.
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
Trade lawyers are split over the necessity of filing lawsuits now to secure potential International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariff refunds should the Supreme Court invalidate them, according to interviews with lawyers.
CBP on Dec. 4 created Harmonized System Update 2542 containing 40 Automated Broker Interface records and 13 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2542 contains the updates pursuant to the United States-Korea Strategic Trade and Investment Deal; the updates pursuant to the Section 301 product exclusion extensions notice; and an HTS flagging change in support of the partner government agency message set: the FDA tariff flag FD2 was changed to FD1 for HTS 2941.10.2000 Penicillin G salts.
Plaintiffs in the massive Section 301 litigation "have every intention" to appeal their case challenging the lists 3 and 4A Section 301 tariffs on China to the Supreme Court, Matt Nicely, lead counsel for the companies, told the Court of International Trade during a Nov. 4 status conference.
Former trade officials said the Trump administration's tariff policy in Asia is being tested by China’s concern over recently completed U.S. tariff arrangements with Malaysia and Cambodia, which could complicate the administration’s push to wrap up deals with Vietnam and Indonesia.
Plaintiffs in the massive Section 301 litigation "have every intention" to appeal their case challenging the lists 3 and 4A Section 301 tariffs on China to the Supreme Court, Matt Nicely, lead counsel for the companies, told the Court of International Trade during a Nov. 4 status conference.
Trade lawyers are split over the necessity of filing lawsuits now to secure potential International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariff refunds should the Supreme Court invalidate them, according to interviews with lawyers.