September 4, 2019 – Global Affairs Canada (GAC) recently issued a Notice to importers, advising of a new aluminum import monitoring program. Under this program, certain aluminum products have been added to the Import Control List (ICL) as item 83, and General... Read more >
On June 5th, 2018, the Mexican authorities published, in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), the retaliatory measures that Mexico is adopting against various goods originating in the United States. This action was taken in response to the Trump... Read more >
The Department of Finance has issued a statement Thursday May 31 2018 following the United States announcement of imposing tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum products from Canada. Canada intends to impose surtaxes or similar trade-restrictive countermeasures against up... Read more >
This article was originally published on May 7, 2018 in Global Trade Magazine. By David Merritt, Director, Global Trade Consulting, Livingston International One would be hard-pressed to find a business in the United Kingdom and the broader European Union that... Read more >
On March 23, 2018, the government of the United States imposed tariffs of 25 percent and 10 respectively on steel and aluminum imports. While a number of critical exporting countries of these materials were exempted until May 1, 2018, many... Read more >
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has determined that the acts, policies, and practices of the Government of China related to technology transfer, intellectual property, and innovation covered in the investigation are unreasonable or discriminatory and burden... Read more >
International freight and transportation: How Livingston helped a trade software and hardware developer enter the South American market. When this Chicago-based technology company approached Livingston, they were facing a sizeable challenge: The Brazilian import/export market. Dealing mostly in the development of... Read more >
This article was originally published in the Journal of Commerce on March 21, 2018 By David Rish, President, Global Trade Management, Livingston International When U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would be imposing tariffs on imported aluminum and steel... Read more >
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has issued a Cargo System Messaging Service (CSMS) notice 18-000223 advising that Coniferous Shingles and Sawn Shakes “shingles and shakes” from Canada fall within the scope of anti-dumping and countervailing (AD/CVD) cases... Read more >
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