trade enforcement

The update is meant to get at foreign producers’ attempts to get around the duties. Late last week the U.S. Department of Commerce announced it is expanding the 50% tariffs that exist on nearly...

The exemption, which will be disallowed in late August, has long been exploited by importers to avoid duties and customs inspections. The end is in sight for a much-abused trade exemption. On...

Billions of federal dollars could reinforce China-backed companies along the supply chain, they warn. In 2024 the United States – through the Export-Import Bank and the U.S. International...

And an executive from North Carolina’s Charlotte Pipe and Foundry points to potential legislative fixes. Last week, before a U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary subcommittee hearing, a...

It's not permanent, but it's not nothing: A long end to the de minimis exemption is signed into law as part of the budget reconciliation bill.

But will this removal of the de minimis rule remain in the legislation?

There are some serious issues with the Congressional Trade Authority Act, and AAM is urging members to oppose it.

The freeze on (correctly applied) tariffs was put in place in 2022 after installers complained that trade enforcement was upending their planned projects.

A bipartisan group in the upper chamber wants to see the Biden administration act on the problem.