E-Merchants Trade Council sent a letter to congressional leaders arguing that carving China out of de minimis eligibility, which is part of the House version of the China bill, would cost companies $499 billion in additional duties, taxes and fees. The trade group is advocating for trade rules that simplify cross-border shipments, CEO Marianne Rowden said.
Five Republican senators, only one of whom voted for the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), are asking that Senate conferees drop the directive to reopen a Section 301 exclusion process, and add a number of trade provisions only found in the House China package. Some House proposals that Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Ala., Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and Florida's two senators, Rick Scott and Marco Rubio, both Republicans, want to include:
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CBP is “super, super close” to getting Office of Management and Budget approval to expand its global business identifier (GBI) pilot beyond nine participants, said Gail Kan, acting executive director-trade policy and programs at CBP (see 2201120015). “I can almost taste it, the moment that OMB is going to sign off on our test to allow all participants from the trade to participate, and not just nine,” she said at the June 29 meeting of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee.
As senators who support subsidies to build semiconductor chips in the U.S. continue to say the trade title differences are holding up the bill, and that it should drop out, House negotiators say it's not time to give up yet.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
FORT LAUDERDALE -- Legislative proposals on customs modernization are getting a “lot of traction” in a “seriously divided” Congress, with bipartisan support and “some urgency to bring this matter to a close,” said AnnMarie Highsmith, CBP executive assistant commissioner for trade, in remarks at a conference June 14.
FORT LAUDERDALE -- With one week remaining, importers find themselves in the position of having to already comply with still unreleased policies as CBP begins enforcement of the rebuttable presumption under the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act, speakers said June 14 at a conference. The rebuttable presumption takes effect on June 21.
Social compliance audits meant to show to CBP the lack of Xinjiang forced labor for imports suspected to be subject to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act would require additional proof that the auditors weren't interfered with by the government or the company involved, said Thomas Kendrick, CBP assistant director of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Center of Excellence and Expertise. Kendrick and other CBP officials discussed UFLPA compliance on June 7 during the second of three webinars on the subject (see 2206010034).
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