On April 9, 2026, United States Steel Corporation (“U.S. Steel”) and United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers Union (“USW”) (collectively “Petitioners”), filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping duties on tin mill products from China, Taiwan, and Turkey and countervailing duties on imports from China.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) issued guidance today explaining importers may utilize the Automated Commercial Environment (“ACE”) portal to request consolidated refunds of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) which were found to be illegal by the Supreme Court. The guidance describes the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries
On April 6, 2026, Atmus Filtration filed a notice of dismissal in its challenge to the IEEPA tariffs. Atmus Filtration v. United States, CIT #26-01259 (“Atmus”) was selected as the lead case by the U.S. Court of International Trade (“CIT”) on March 4, 2026. Atmus became the torch bearer for all IEEPA cases
On April 8, 2026, BASF Corporation (“Petitioner”), filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping duties on the import of polytetramethylene ether glycol (“PTMEG”) from China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
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The proposed scope of these investigations is as follows:
The merchandise covered by this investigation is polytetramethylene ether glycol (“PTMEG”)
On April 6, 2026, Charter Steel, Commercial Metals Company, Liberty Steel USA, Nucor Corporation and Optimus Steel, LLC (“Petitioners”), filed a petition for the imposition of countervailing duties on Imports of Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Algeria.
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The following describes the imported merchandise that is included within the scope
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) issued guidance on how importers need to report and classify goods subject to the revised steel, aluminum, and copper tariffs announced by the Trump Administration on April 2, 2026. We encourage importers to review the list of HTS number affected by the metal tariffs to ensure compliance with the below reporting requirements.
On April 2, 2026, the Trump Administration issued a proclamation imposing Section 232 tariffs on imports of patented pharmaceutical products and active pharmaceutical ingredients (“APIs”) pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (“Section 232”).
In March 2025, in a similar blog post to this one, Nithya Nagarajan and Robert Romashko forecasted that False Claims Act (“FCA”) enforcement would increase under the current tariff-focused trade policy regime. Sure enough, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently announced two FCA resolutions involving allegations of failure to pay customs duties and evasion of antidumping and countervailing duties.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Island Industries v. Sigma Corp., upheld a lower court jury determination that an importer of welded pipe fittings is liable for $8 million in unpaid antidumping duties under the False Claims Act (“FCA”). The penalty under the FCA is trebled totaling the liability to over $32 million for importer Sigma Corp.
The first seven weeks of the second Trump Administration has revealed that tariffs are going to be a primary tool in the administration’s trade arsenal to address both domestic and foreign trade policy goals. What is critical to understand is that tariffs are only a viable tool if U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) can