CBP's Office of Regulations and Rulings is facing a massive increase in ruling requests involving products from China, in addition to its need to weigh in on exclusion requests, CBP Assistant Commissioner Brenda Smith said June 28 at the American Association of Exporters and Importers Annual Conference in Washington. The trade remedy exclusion requests are reviewed by OR&R "because of the tariff classification inherent in the application and then in the final determination," she said. Exclusion requests for the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum are now at about 80,000, well above the 10,000 that were expected when first announced, she said. That's not counting the exclusion request processes now available for the first three tranches of Section 301 tariffs on goods from China, she said.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated June 19. The most recent ruling is dated June 17. The following headquarters rulings not involving carriers were "modified" on June 19, according to CBP:
On the day after the Mexican Senate ratified the new NAFTA (see 1906190068), Ambassador Martha Barcena told an audience of U.S.-Mexico trade advocates that Mexico acted now to send the message that her country wants trade predictability. Barcena, who was speaking at the Wilson Center "Building a Competitive U.S.-Mexico Border" conference June 20, said security issues have captured the narrative about the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated June 6. The most recent ruling is dated June 4. The following headquarters rulings not involving carriers were "modified" on June 6, according to CBP:
Tariffs on Mexican imports would have a profound impact on the U.S. TV business if the Trump administration were to make good on its threat to impose 25 percent duties by Oct. 1 (see 1905310044), suggests our analysis of International Trade Commission import data. ITC statistics show the monetary fallout from 25 percent duties on finished TVs imported from Mexico could possibly exceed that of the threatened 25 percent Section 301 List 4 tariffs on TVs from China, even though China ships many more TVs to the U.S. than Mexico does.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated May 17 with 21 rulings. The most recent ruling is dated May 14. The following headquarters rulings were "modified" on May 16, according to CBP's list.
Industry groups and unions continued to react to the International Trade Commission's analysis of the new NAFTA the day after the report was released, with most saying the report confirmed what they already knew.
The International Trade Commission estimated that by the sixth year after the new NAFTA's ratification, the U.S. economy would have 176,000 more jobs than it would have without the new revised trade deal. That's a 0.12 percent increase compared to the status quo.