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Understanding Resale Certificates: Which States Accept Your Home State Registration Number?

July 18, 2025.
Tax Publications

A resale certificate is a signed document that indicates that the purchaser intends to resell the goods, allowing the purchaser to buy products without paying sales tax. Resale certificates cannot be used for items that will be used or consumed by the purchaser in their normal course of business....

Indonesia Lands U.S. Trade Win While Courting the EU

July 17, 2025.
Logistics Publications, Trade Publications

Indonesia Secures a Trade Agreement with the U.S. In a deal announced by President Trump and confirmed by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, the U.S. has agreed to reduce its tariff on Indonesian goods from 32% to 19%. In exchange, Indonesia committed to a range of major purchases from the U...

Tariffs on Mexican Tomatoes

July 15, 2025.

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced a 17.09% antidumping duty on fresh tomato imports from Mexico effective immediately, July 14. This is a significant departure from a long-standing trade agreement that had averted anti-dumping duties in exchange for Mexico’s commitment to keep tomatoes at a minimum price threshold. The...

Trump Announces 30% Tariff on E.U. and Mexico

July 14, 2025.
Logistics Publications, Trade Publications

On July 12, President Donald J. Trump announced via social media that the United States will impose a 30% tariff on goods imported from the European Union (E.U.) and Mexico, effective August 1. If implemented, the new rate will replace the existing IEEPA reciprocal tariffs of 10% for the E.U. and 25% for...

DOJ Shifts Focus to Trade and Customs Fraud

July 14, 2025.
Logistics Publications, Trade Publications

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is shifting its enforcement priorities from healthcare, federal program, and procurement fraud to trade, tariff, and customs fraud committed by corporations. This change follows a Goldman Sachs report estimating that tariff evasion may have accounted for as much as $90 billion in U.S....

New Reciprocal Tariff on Canada

July 11, 2025.
Logistics Publications, Trade Publications

President Donald J. Trump issued a formal notification to Canada on July 10, advising that a reciprocal tariff of 35% will take effect August 1 on most U.S. imports from the country. This new tariff replaces the tariff of 25% that the administration imposed on Canada, effective March 4, under the International Emergency...

U.S.-U.K. Economic Prosperity Deal

July 11, 2025.
Logistics Publications, Trade Publications

Executive Order 14309 – June 16, 2025 The U.S. and the U.K. have agreed to a historic trade agreement that reduces the tariff on U.K. vehicle and vehicle parts that are exported to the U.S. It also provides duty-free treatment on civil aircraft engines and components and lays...

New Reciprocal Tariffs and Copper Duty Announced by President Trump

July 10, 2025.
Trade Publications

President Donald J. Trump has issued formal notifications to eight additional countries regarding new reciprocal tariffs set to take effect on August 1, 2025. These tariffs replace the previously announced Liberation Day tariffs, which were scheduled to begin on July 9 but were postponed to allow more time for bilateral trade negotiations. Here...

Update: FDA Review Now Required for All Low-Value Shipments

July 10, 2025.
Trade Publications

On July 9, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued updated guidance regarding de minimis shipments that are subject to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations. Low-value shipments of products such as cosmetics, dinnerware, radiation-emitting devices (non-medical), biological samples, and most foods were previously exempt from FDA oversight. ...

Trump Announces New Reciprocal Tariffs

July 08, 2025.
Trade Publications

On April 2 (Liberation Day), in an effort to mitigate trade deficits with U.S. global trading partners, President Donald J. Trump announced the reciprocal tariffs that would apply to each specific country. The reciprocal tariffs were postponed to take effect on July 9 – and again postponed to August 1. The 3-week...

Transshipment

July 08, 2025.
Trade Publications

On July 9, President Donald J. Trump sent notifications to U.S. trading partners, primarily in Southeast Asia, advising each of the specific reciprocal tariff that will take effect on August 1 if a trade deal is not negotiated by then. In his letter he iterated that goods which are transshipped "to...

US President Trump Delays Tariff Hike, Signals Trade Deals Are Near

July 07, 2025.
Trade Publications

In April, US President Donald J. Trump announced an IEEPA reciprocal of 10% base tariff rate on most countries. Additional duties ranging up to 50%, as part of the April 2 Liberation Day reciprocal tariffs, were postponed to take effect on July 9. On Sunday, July 6, President Trump disclosed that his administration will...