{"id":198705,"date":"2025-04-22T13:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/legal\/breaking-trade-news-critical-minerals-probe-japan-tariff-talks-232-investigations-more\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:14:22","slug":"breaking-trade-news-critical-minerals-probe-japan-tariff-talks-232-investigations-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=198705","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Trade News: Critical Minerals Probe, Japan Tariff Talks, 232 Investigations &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-7567\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is a recap of the latest customs and international trade news:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Administration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Trump signed an<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/04\/ensuring-national-security-and-economic-resilience-through-section-232-actions-on-processed-critical-minerals-and-derivative-products\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Executive Order<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> directing the Commerce Department to investigate whether imports of processed critical minerals and their derivative products threaten to impair national security.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Trump issued a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/04\/clarification-of-exceptions-under-executive-order-14257-of-april-2-2025-as-amended\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Presidential Memo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stating that certain electronics are exempt from reciprocal tariffs, including <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">smartphones, laptop computers, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and memory chips.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Trump<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/2025-04-16\/trump-says-hes-joining-bessent-and-lutnick-for-trade-negotiations-with-japanese-at-the-white-house\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> he and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his key advisors are set to meet with a top Japanese official to begin trade negotiations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Customs and Border Protection (CBP)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CBP<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/national-media-release\/cbp-releases-march-2025-monthly-update\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">released<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> its March 2025 monthly update. Highlights:\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identified duties of nearly $15 billion to be collected\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stopped 434 shipments on suspicion of forced labor\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Successfully implemented 13 tariff-related presidential actions\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CBP issued updated<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/bulletins\/gd\/USDHSCBP-3db9e55?wgt_ref=USDHSCBP_WIDGET_2\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">guidance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for <\/span><b>reciprocal tariff exclusions for specified products.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CBP<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/trade\/stakeholder-engagement\/webinars\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during a webinar that the agency will start enforcing regulations requiring retail pharmacies to disclose the country of origin on the bottles of prescription medication meant for private individuals.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CBP<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/local-media-release\/operation-stops-over-70-shipments-counterfeit-human-growth-hormones\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stopped<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">over 70 shipments of counterfeit Human Growth Hormones and other dangerous chemicals.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Bureau of Industry and Security<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BIS issued a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2025\/04\/16\/2025-06591\/notice-of-request-for-public-comments-on-section-232-national-security-investigation-of-imports-of\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Federal Register notice<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> requesting comment on the Section 232 national security investigation of imports of semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Comments are due May 7, 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BIS issued a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2025\/04\/16\/2025-06587\/notice-of-request-for-public-comments-on-section-232-national-security-investigation-of-imports-of\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Federal Register notice<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> requesting comments on the Section 232 national security investigation of Imports of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Department of Commerce<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/commerce-secretary-lutnick-tariff-exemptions-electronics-temporary\/story?id=120752319\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the tariff exemption for electronics will be temporary.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Commerce Department<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trade.gov\/press-release\/us-department-commerce-announces-intent-withdraw-2019-suspension-agreement-fresh\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it will be withdrawing from an agreement suspending an antidumping duty investigation on Mexican-origin fresh tomatoes and issuing an antidumping duty order on the produce.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Court of International Trade (CIT)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Liberty Justice Center filed a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cit.17080\/gov.uscourts.cit.17080.2.0.pdf\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lawsuit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on behalf of five importers to challenge President Trump\u2019s authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USDA\u2019s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2025\/04\/16\/2025-06478\/notice-of-invocation-of-special-agricultural-safeguard-measures-pursuant-to-the-uruguay-round\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will impose<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an additional safeguard duty on certain sugars, syrups, and molasses that fall under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. The duty will apply to articles containing over 65% by dry weight of sugars that have exceeded the trigger level of 1,252 metric tons.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Congress<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Representative Gray of California<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/2842?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22hr+2842%22%7D&amp;s=1&amp;r=4\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">introduced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Stop Raising Prices on Food Act, which would limit the president\u2019s authority to impose new or additional duties on articles from countries that are major agricultural trade partners with the U.S.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/2888\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">introduced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Stopping a Rogue President on Trade Act, which would terminate certain import tariffs, including reciprocal tariffs and the tariffs on Canada and Mexico.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Industry News<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California Gov. 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