The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Jan. 30:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Jan. 27:
Even though steel and aluminum tariffs have been in place since March 2018, the number of exclusion requests continues to grow, according to an updated analysis from the free market-oriented Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The new portal opened June 13, and from that time to Aug. 27, companies filed an average of 4,427 requests a month. Between Aug. 28 and Dec. 6, the monthly average was 7,190. Members of Congress have repeatedly criticized what they see as arbitrary decisions, the fact that each exclusion is limited to the requestor, and the influence of domestic steel and aluminum producers on Commerce decisions (see 1910170066 and 1910300058).
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose department refused to release the report explaining why auto imports are a national security threat, said people don't understand how the Section 232 statute operates. The president gave the U.S. trade representative 180 days to see if he could negotiate with Europe a mitigation of the security threat represented by auto imports. But when that 180 days expired, and Trump took no action, that doesn't mean the case is closed, Ross told Bloomberg.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Jan. 21:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Jan. 14:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Jan. 3:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Jan. 2:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Dec. 31:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Dec. 30: