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President Trump on Monday said he would impose national security-based tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from Brazil and Argentina, which he said had endorsed “massive” currency devaluations that have hurt U.S. companies.
President Trump on Monday said he would impose national security-based tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from Brazil and Argentina, which he said had endorsed “massive” currency devaluations that have hurt U.S. companies.
President Trump on Monday said he would re-impose national security-based tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from Brazil and Argentina, which he said had endorsed “massive” currency devaluations that have hurt U.S. companies.
The Commerce Department is advancing its first export control on an “emerging technology,” a key piece of the implementation of the 2018 Export Control Reform Act that Congress has been eagerly awaiting.
The Commerce Department on Tuesday issued proposed regulations that would allow it to block foreign information and communications technology and services from entering the U.S. if the Commerce secretary determines they posed national security risks.
The Foreign Ministry responded to the FCC's move to ban the use of Universal Service Fund money to buy equipment from Huawei and ZTE.
The U.S. International Trade Commission determined on Friday that the U.S. industry has been harmed by dumped fresh tomatoes from Mexico, meaning a suspension agreement signed earlier this year by the Commerce Department and Mexican tomato growers will remain in effect.
The Court of International Trade last week denied a Trump administration motion to dismiss a challenge lodged by a U.S. importer of steel products over the president’s decision last August to ratchet up Section 232 tariffs on steel from Turkey.
The “Play by the Rules Act” would give the Commerce Department greater flexibility to review anti-circumvention petitions filed against non-market economies.
The license was previously extended in August.
Cordell Hull was named deputy under secretary at the Bureau of Industry and Security. Joe Semsar was named deputy under secretary at the International Trade Administration,
The U.S. sugar industry is urging the Commerce Department to quickly adopt new proposed sugar suspension agreement amendments with Mexico, which are identical to the 2017 amendments that the Court of International Trade declared void last month.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative this week is expected to announce a delay of a Section 232 action based on the national security implications of auto and auto-parts imports and instead issue a report that includes auto industry investment plans crafted to stave off the imposition of trade restrictions, sources tell Inside U.S. Trade.
The Justice Department has requested a 90-day stay of a Court of International Trade ruling ordering the U.S. to vacate 2017 amendments to sugar suspension agreements with Mexico while the Commerce Department solicits comments on identical suspension agreements to those defeated amendments, according to a sugar industry group.
“We have long been concerned about the lack of transparency and consistency in the Department of Commerce’s Section 232 tariff exclusion process.”
“I think it shows they’re embarrassed to make public what the report actually says.”
Year-to-date, the overall gap has “increased $24.8 billion, or 5.4 percent, from the same period in 2018.”
The publication of regulations crafted to implement a May executive order on protecting the U.S. information and communications technology supply chain is being delayed in part because of ongoing trade negotiations between the U.S. and China, according to industry sources.
Citing negotiations with foreign auto companies, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Sunday said he hopes those talks will “bear enough fruit” so the U.S. does not have to put potential Section 232 measures “fully into effect.”