Here is a recap of the latest customs and international trade news:    

Administration
  • President Trump said that the administration will petition the Supreme Court to make an expedited ruling on the legality of the IEEPA tariffs. 
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
  • CBP published a new 2025 tariff requirements cheat sheet. View here.
  • CBP published a Federal Register Notice effectuating President Trump’s Executive Order ending duty-free de minimis treatment for shipments from all countries.
  • CBP published a press release announcing enforcement and processes for the end of the de minimis exception.
  • CBP is aware that entries released before Aug. 18, 2025, are being rejected with the error: 794 – Additional Dec Type Required for article. The rejection is occurring for certain steel/aluminum derivative imports. CBP is looking into the issue.
  • CBP released guidance for the consensual monitoring of telephone conversations by employees of the Customs Service.
  • CBP reminds all importers, brokers, and other trade community members to take the ACE user satisfaction survey. Due September 12, 2025.
Department of Justice (DOJ)
  • The DOJ launched a cross-agency Trade Fraud Task Force to ramp up enforcement against importers who seek to defraud the United States. 
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
  • OFAC announced that a Houston-based freight forwarder has agreed to pay $1.6M to settle its potential civil liability for apparent violations of multiple OFAC sanctions programs, including those on Venezuela and Iran.
  • Updates to the Specially Designated Nationals list.
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)
  • BIS announced the end of the Validated End-User (VEU) program, a program the agency found to act as a loophole for a handful of foreign companies to export semiconductor manufacturing equipment and technology to China license-free. 
  • BIS published a rule easing licensing requirements for civilian exports to Syria.

The rule implements the policy on Syria established in Executive Order 14312, signed June 30, 2025.

United States Trade Representative (USTR)
  • USTR held a public hearing on September 3, 2025, regarding the Section 301 investigation of Brazil’s acts, policies, and practices related to digital trade and electronic payment services; unfair, preferential tariffs; anti-corruption enforcement; intellectual property protection; ethanol market access; and illegal deforestation.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • The FDA placed four companies on Import Alert for improperly weighing seafood. 
Congress
  • The House Appropriations Committee released a draft of its funding plan for several federal agencies. Under the draft plan, funding for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs would be eliminated. The bureau is responsible for the annual report on products made with child labor. 
Court of International Trade (CIT)
  • The CIT held that the Trade Act of the 1930s provision allowing duty-free treatment for emergency goods doesn’t cover solar cells and modules. The ruling vacated the Commerce Department’s pause on the collection of AD/CVD duties on solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
  • The CIT ruled that imports from two New Zealand fisheries violated federal laws that prohibit facilitation of the extinction of marine mammal populations.
International

Despite the fact that the U.S. has failed to enact tariff reductions on EU goods, the EU Parliament is debating a proposal to lower its tariffs on U.S. goods, as agreed to under the U.S.-EU trade deal.

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