On January 15, 2020 President Trump and Vice Premier Liu He signed the preliminary “Phase One” agreement, culminating more than a year of negotiations, tariff increases and dead ends. The agreement sees Chinese purchases of US Agriculture in exchange...
There is good news coming in as a de-escalation of tariffs for shippers from China whose merchandise was on one of the first three lists published by the US Trade Representative. As a gesture of goodwill to China for...
As we reported in the beginning of the month, when President Trump tweeted that a 4th tranche of 301 duties would be coming on the remaining $300 billion in Chinese imports, the USTR announced yesterday that only part of...
On August 2nd, President Trump told reporters waiting outside of the White House that he would be instituting tariffs on all imports from China that haven’t yet been covered by other sections or exclusions. The tariffs are set to...
For months, logistics professionals have been concerned with the impending tariff hike on goods coming from China. Though they were supposed to start on January 1st, President Trump delayed them as talks between the two nations shows promise. The...
On Friday, December 1, 2018 President Trump declared that the impending bump to 25% duties on the third list of Chinese tariffs would be postponed for 3 months moving the implementation date to March 2, 2019. The delay in...
President Trump announced on Monday that the USTR will place additional tariffs of $200 billion imports from China. Set to take effect on Monday, September 24, 2018 at ten percent and rising to twenty-five percent on January 1, 2019,...
On July 10th, the US Trade Representative announced the third list of HTS numbers that will be hit with penalties on imports from China. The escalating trade war between the United States and China continues to flare up around...
In 2013, the Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega and Wang Jing, a relatively unknown Chinese businessman made headlines when they announced that Nicaragua was going to build an inter-oceanic passage to compete with the Panama canal. The initial cost for...
