Customs and Border Protection

Efforts to correct drafting errors in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement implementing bill are facing roadblocks, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said this week, adding that he hopes to address the provisions before the end of the year.

The implementation of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to date has been smoother than expected, a top U.S. Customs and Border Protection official tells Inside U.S. Trade.

The U.S. implementing bill for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement might require minor technical corrections before the deal enters into force, sources tell Inside U.S. Trade.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is working to ensure “predictability and certainty” for automakers adjusting to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s auto rules of origin, agency officials tell Inside U.S. Trade.

“We urge you to immediately issue a directive to [CBP] to defer all tariffs for at least 90 days, or until the crisis passes.”

Steel industry associations and a group representing a cross-section of U.S. sectors are calling on U.S. Customs and Border Patrol to resume the collection of tariffs after the agency announced last week it would approve delayed payments of estimated duties, taxes and fees “on a case by case basis” due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Wyden: “I hope that this administration will continue to work with human rights organizations and the business community to ensure this loophole stays closed and enforce our tough trade policies that protect American workers and values.”

A coalition of companies operating foreign trade zones in the U.S. is calling for legislation amending U.S. law to allow de minimis entry eligibility to apply to goods withdrawn from those zones, arguing that doing so would reduce imports from China and support U.S. jobs.