Here’s a recap of the newest customs and worldwide commerce information:    

Customs and Border Safety (CBP)  

  • CBP launched the February 2025 month-to-month replace. Highlights: 
    • Recognized $2.9 million in duties and charges owed. 
    • Stopped 1,024 shipments for additional examination primarily based on the suspected use of compelled labor. 
    • Seized 1,815 shipments that contained counterfeit items.  
  • CBP issued steering on import duties on imports of metal and metal by-product merchandise. 
  • CBP issued steering on import duties on imports of aluminum and aluminum by-product merchandise. 
  • CBP launched it’s April commerce outreach webinar schedule.  
  • CBP officers seized a cargo containing faux designer jewellery price $3.5 million, had it been real.  
  • Baltimore CBP officers seized over $72k in counterfeit vinyl flooring tiles from China.  
  • CBP seized counterfeit pores and skin lotions and sharpie pens price over $30k in Allentown, PA. 

Administration 

  • President Trump pledged counter-measures in response to the EU’s new tariffs on U.S. merchandise. 
  • In a Reality Social put up, President Trump threatened to put a 200% tariff on wines, champagnes, and alcoholic merchandise from the EU if they don’t take away their 50% tariff on U.S. whisky. 

U.S. Division of Commerce 

  • Commerce printed a federal register discover notifying the commerce neighborhood that they need to pay the 25% Part 232 tariff on aluminum and metal merchandise categorised outdoors of Chapter 72 (iron), 73 (metal) and 76 (aluminum) of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the US (HTSUS). 
  • Commerce printed a federal register discover requesting public feedback on the Part 232 nationwide safety investigation of copper imports.  
  • Commerce printed a federal register discover requesting public feedback on the Part 232 nationwide safety investigation of timber and lumber imports.  

United States Commerce Consultant (USTR) 

  • USTR held a public listening to on March 11, 2025, concerning the Part 301 investigation on China’s acts, insurance policies, and practices associated to concentrating on of the semiconductor trade for dominance. 

Congress 

  • Senators Invoice Cassidy and Catherine Cortez Masto launched the Customs Facilitation Act of 2025. The invoice goals to create a real single window for importers and scale back redundancies upfront export manifest information submissions. 

Trade Information 

  • CMA CGM, the world’s third-largest container transport firm, introduced a $20 billion U.S. funding over 4 years, increasing its U.S.-flagged fleet, upgrading ports, and launching an air cargo hub in Chicago. It will create 10,000 jobs. 
  • Serina Baker-Hill, director of CBP’s Automotive and Aerospace Middle of Excellence and Experience in Detroit, has been charged with defrauding the FEMA, making false statements to federal brokers, and committing wire fraud.  
  • GE Aerospace introduced a virtually $1 billion funding in U.S. manufacturing, benefitting greater than two dozen communities throughout 16 states. 

Worldwide 

  • The EU mentioned it plans to reinstate beforehand suspended tariffs on U.S. metal and aluminum and introduce new countermeasures in opposition to US exports. 
  • Efficient March 13, 2025, Canada is imposing 25% tariffs on $29.8 billion in merchandise imported from the U.S.  

Florida Information 

  • The Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) plans to shut almost a dozen federal places of work throughout South Florida together with Nationwide Park Service and FDA’s OCI workplace. 

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