Breaking Trade News: Bangladesh Trade Deal, New 232 Guidance, UFLPA Dashboard Update | Customs & International Trade Law Blog

Here’s a recap of the most recent customs and worldwide commerce information:    

Administration  

Through a submit on X, President Trump threatened to dam the opening of a second bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, “till america is totally compensated for every part we now have given.”   
The Trump administration is reportedly contemplating tariff exemptions for main U.S. hyperscalers concerned in building of knowledge facilities wanted for AI.
The U.S. and Bangladesh launched a joint assertion on reciprocal commerce. The U.S. is reducing the tariffs on Bangladeshi exports to 19% fairly than the 20%. The U.S. may even set up a mechanism for a tariff fee quota for Bangladeshi textile and attire imports, with items coming in underneath the quota getting into duty-free. 

Customs and Border Safety (CBP)  

CBP’s base metals Heart of Excellence and Experience (CEE) launched up to date steering for calculating metal, aluminum and copper content material for Part 232 tariff functions. 
UFLPA Enforcement Statistics Dashboard replace: within the earlier dashboard, a cargo was outlined as an combination of the totality of products subjected to UFLPA enforcement actions. Now, a cargo is now outlined as a person import transaction inside a cargo entry or customs declaration. This modification has resulted in a big change within the variety of UFLPA enforcement actions displayed. 
CBP introduced the company is updating how a dealer might entry the importer view within the ACE Portal and that customs brokers who obtain digital refunds on behalf of their purchasers might want to arrange the power to view an importer’s report within the portal.  
CBP up to date its steering on tariffs on imports from India to mirror the top of the 25% tariff imposed on India for its imports of Russian oil. 

Congress 

U.S. Senators Cassidy and Whitehouse launched the Final Sale Valuation Act, which might finish the apply of first sale to scale back obligation publicity.  
The U.S. Home of Representatives voted to finish the Canada emergency that underlies 35% tariffs on a subset of Canadian items that aren’t coated by USMCA or Part 232. The Senate will now have to vote on the measure to ship it to the President’s desk. 
A bunch of U.S. Home Republicans launched a invoice that will create legal penalties for importing tablet press machines. 

United States Commerce Consultant (USTR)  

Consultant Greer acknowledged in an interview with Fox Enterprise that Indonesia would be the “subsequent large one” for commerce offers and that the deal will probably be finalized throughout the subsequent couple of weeks.  

Meals and Drug Administration (FDA)  

Federal Maritime Fee  

A FMC administrative regulation choose dismissed a criticism that motor provider Elite Logistics filed in opposition to ocean transportation middleman Tanera Transport, citing a scarcity of jurisdiction. 

Workplace of Overseas Belongings Management (OFAC)  

OFAC is launching a brand new on-line Voluntary Self-Disclosure Portal to supply a streamlined, safe technique for submitting voluntary self-disclosures of potential violations of OFAC-administered sanctions applications.  
OFAC issued Venezuela Basic License 48 and Venezuela Basic License 46A, authorizing the provision of sure gadgets and providers and sure actions involving Venezuelan-origin oil. 

Client Product Security Fee (CPSC)  

The CPSC revealed a Federal Register Discover stating that the company is revising its security customary for crib mattresses to implement an replace to the voluntary ASTM customary. 

Business Information  

Throughout Ford Motor Co.’s earnings name, the corporate revealed that its tariff prices jumped by virtually $900 million in 2025 after the Trump administration knowledgeable the corporate that it might solely apply Part 232 tariff credit again to November, fairly than to Might. 

Twenty eight trade teams signed a letter to the Bureau of Business and Safety (BIS) expressing concern with the Part 232 tariffs administrative