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A coalition of U.S. producers is seeking quotas and tariffs on all imports of quartz surface products, saying a series of U.S. antidumping and countervailing duties on those goods have been undermined by extensive evasion. The Quartz Manufacturing Alliance of America requested relief under Sections 201 and 202 of the Trade Act of 1974 in a Sept. 15 petition to the U.S. International Trade Commission. “This is not the first time that the domestic industry has sought relief from the...

G7 partners should impose tariffs on countries that import Russian oil if they are “truly committed to ending the war in Ukraine,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a joint statement on Friday, after G7 finance ministers held an “emergency” video call at the request of the U.S. “During today’s call with G7 Finance Ministers, Secretary Bessent reiterated President Trump’s call to our G7 partners that, if they are truly committed to ending the...

The U.S. lumber industry is asking the Trump administration for significant trade relief “now” on lumber imports, though the status of a national security probe into those imports remains unclear. The U.S. Lumber Coalition, an alliance of softwood lumber producers, their employees and woodland owners, called for urgent trade relief under a pending Section 232 (of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962) investigation in a Sept. 9 letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, made...

A framework trade agreement between the U.S. and the United Kingdom includes promising language on mutual recognition, a panel of environment technology industry representatives said this week, calling on the administration to deepen that work and use it as a model in negotiations with other partners. In a forthcoming letter to Commerce Secretary Lutnick, approved during a virtual panel meeting on Tuesday, the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee lauds the Trump administration for seeking to expand export markets as part...

Chinese hackers are impersonating the chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, John Moolenaar (R-MI), to gain information on high-level U.S.-China trade engagements, the panel said on Monday, contending the Chinese government is behind it. “In recent weeks and on multiple occasions, suspected Chinese cyber-attackers impersonated Chairman John Moolenaar in emails to trusted counterparts, attempting to deceive recipients and get them to open files and links that would grant the cyber-attackers access to their systems and...

A Michigan-based auto parts importer is again asking the Court of International Trade to revive the de minimis tariff exemption for packages worth $800 or less, saying President Trump’s July order scrapping the program for all U.S. trading partners defied a “clear command” from Congress to maintain it into 2027 as part of this summer’s reconciliation law. Detroit Axle, which first sued over Trump’s wind-down of de minimis for Chinese shipments in May, filed a motion to reopen its case...

President Trump on Friday authorized the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Commerce Department to make a slew of changes to implement new trade frameworks, which could include making some products not grown or available in the U.S. – including coffee, bananas and cork – tariff-free. “In my judgment, it is necessary and appropriate to take steps contemplated in certain current and forthcoming trade and security framework agreements (framework agreements) between a foreign trading partner and the United...

The Justice Department is asking federal appeals courts to freeze litigation over President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs now that a parallel case has reached the Supreme Court, but one of the panels is saying it will only consider doing so if and when the high court actually commits to reviewing the tariffs. On Sept. 4, DOJ filed motions seeking stays on three IEEPA cases: one in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and two...

President Trump on Thursday issued an executive order that will ease the 15 percent tariffs he imposed on Japan per the countries’ bilateral tariff deal by making the rate “inclusive” with most-favored nation duties rather than stacking them -- a change that will be retroactive for many products, meaning importers could be refunded for tariffs already paid, though vehicles appear ineligible for that benefit. The Sept. 4 order sets total tariffs on Japanese goods at either a flat 15 percent...