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TRADE UPDATE: September 2022 Webinar Schedule Dates Announced by NCSD.

On August 8th, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced September 2022 webinar schedule hosted by National Commodity Specialist Division (NCSM) in CSMS #52901250.

You may find the registration links below:

Thursday, September 1, 2022 | 1:30 p.m. EDT – Classification of Vehicles of Chapter 87 and Saying Hello to Hybrids.

Tuesday, September 13, 2022 | 12:00 p.m. EDT – Other Articles of Base Metals.

The full message reads as follows:

“The Office of Trade’s National Commodity Specialist Division and the Office of Trade Relations is excited to present a series of approximately 40 commodity-specific, educational webinars to support Customs and Border Protection’s internal and external customers. The webinars began in February and will run through September 2022.  Each webinar will be approximately an hour.  The date and time will vary, so please be sure to check the time for each webinar.   

The schedule for the September webinars is below.  Please click on the webinar title to register.  The link to join will be sent via email no later than 9 a.m. on the day of the webinar. We look forward to your participation!”

If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us HERE.

References:

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCBP/bulletins/3273582

REMINDER – ETC INDEPENDENCE DAY HOLIDAY HOURS.

Kindly note that our office will close at 3 p.m. EDT on Friday, July 1st and will be CLOSED on Monday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day Holiday.

Please contact your account officer to plan accordingly during this time frame.

We greatly appreciate your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience.

We hope you have a great holiday weekend!

CBP Issues Regionwide Withhold Order Xingang China Cotton and Tomato Products

Effective January 13, 2021, the CBP has issued a Withhold Release Order (WRO) that all U.S. ports of entry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will detain cotton products and tomato products produced in China’s Xinjian Uygur Autonomous Region. The WRO will detain the following products from China’s Xinjian Uygur: Apparel, textiles, tomato seeds, canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, and other goods made with cotton and tomatoes.

The CBP will begin detaining shipments that “exploit forced labor laws at any point in their supply chain, including the production or harvesting of the raw material”. The agency identified the following forced labor indicators through the course of its investigation: debt bondage, restriction of movement, isolation, intimidation and threats, withholding of wages, and abusive living and working conditions.

Notice of WRO 1/13/2021

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-issues-region-wide-withhold-release-orderproducts-made-slave

CBP Forced Labor Information

https://www.cbp.gov/trade/programs-administration/forcedlabor?_ga=2.198706028.2124264278.1610577086-1520727500.1541643165

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at contact@expresstradecapital.com.

If You Import from China – US and China have come to a decision regarding tariffs

Carli Valinoti, Express Trade Capital

Chinese President Xi Jinping with President Donald Trump in June in Japan. They are the primary actors in the longest-running, most serious trade war in history.
via Getty Images/WSJ

After months of negotiation, the US and China have announced that they have come to an agreement on trade. The US will cut the current taxes on $120 billion of Chinese goods from 15% down to 7.5% and has decided to not move forward with adding tariffs to the rest of the $160 billion Chinese goods. This will take effect on December 15, 2019. A 25% tariff rate will continue to stay in place on approximately $250 billion worth of US goods. In return, China has agreed to increase its purchases of US goods and services along with around $40-50 billion in agriculture products.

For questions on how this affects your imports from China, contact our logistics office for further assistance. Contact@expresstradecapital.com

ETC Holiday Party Featured in Fashion Mannuscript

We are proud to announce that photos from our annual holiday party are featured in this month’s issue of Fashion Mannuscript on pages 14-15! We are thrilled that the event was such a success and grateful to all of our clients and colleagues who helped make it a wonderful evening.

Here’s to another prosperous year!