The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) for CBP will next meet July 15, remotely, beginning at 1 p.m., CBP said in a notice. Comments are due in writing by July 14.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told two senators concerned about retaliatory tariffs in India that the U.S. is working on restoring India to the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program, but that it's slow going. “We’re in the process of restoring it if we can get an adequate counterbalancing proposal from them,” he told Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., who had complained that American apples are now taxed at 70% in India because of Section 232 tariffs on metals from that country.
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Importers may want to delay filing for U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement reconciliation because the USMCA currently doesn't allow for post-entry refunds of merchandise processing fees, CBP officials said during a National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones webinar on June 16. Maya Kamar, CBP director for textiles and trade agreements, said that although the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is working with Congress for a legislative fix to the issue, CBP doesn't yet have clarity on whether such a bill will pass (see 2006050034).
While most of the focus on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement has been on the changes to the auto rules of origin and enforcement measures aimed at Mexico, Crowell & Moring lawyers explained that importers and exporters of textiles and chemicals also can take advantage of rules that changed from NAFTA for inclusion in the updated agreement.
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said recent actions Mexico took to block the import of biotechnology and pesticides (see 2006040031) make him think the U.S. will have to start a state-to-state dispute as soon as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement takes effect. “USMCA follows the principle that that is the very foundation of our international agreements on trade, that everything should be science-based,” he said, in response to a question from International Trade Today. “And science shows that Mexico’s decision is a political decision and not a scientific decision.”
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The Office of the U.S. Representative posted the final implementing regulations of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, covering the interpretation, application, and administration of rules of origin, textiles, and customs and trade facilitation.