This week’s recap of the newest customs and cross-border commerce information:  

Administration 

  • President Trump issued a number of proclamations imposing bans on imports of Canadian alcoholic drinks, dairy merchandise, molasses, and non-alcoholic beer, and sure bikes, and added new merchandise to the listing topic to 50% Section 301 tariffs. The tariffs take impact Sept. 15, the ban takes impact Sept. 29. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP)      

  • On Sept. 12, CBP will update ACE login safety by including SMS message as a two-factor authentication methodology. 
  • CBP officers in Baltimore seized a cargo of over 8,500 falcata plywood sheets that had been imported utilizing a stolen identification, had been undervalued, and had been clandestinely imported from China.   

Department of Justice (DOJ) 

  • Two Texas-based operators of a web based animal-health merchandise corporate affairs had been sentenced to 3 months in jail and ordered to forfeit greater than $1.5M for a smuggled veterinary drug and pesticide scheme. 

International Trade Commission (ITC) 

  • The ITC is seeking public touch upon how the Commission can set up practices to determine discriminatory commerce actions and make suggestions to the President. Comments are due November 9, 2026.  

Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) 

  • BIS launched its annual report to Congress, revealing the company imposed roughly $324 million in civil and prison penalties in calendar 12 months 2025, in comparison with roughly $16 million in 2024, an eighteen-fold improve in a single 12 months.  

Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC)   

  • OFAC sanctioned three Chinese entities for working a big illicit on-line market used to help cyber scams, fraud, cash laundering, and different prison exercise focusing on Americans.   
  • Under Operation Economic Outcast, OFAC sanctioned 36 targets for supporting Iran’s aviation sector, which the regime makes use of to maneuver weapons, personnel, and illicit cargo. 

U.S. Department of State 

  • The Department of State designated 5 entities and one particular person to additional the Trump Administration’s complete push to finish the Cuban regime’s malign actions. 

U.S. Census Bureau 

  • The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis launched the newest trade report, asserting that the products and companies deficit was $88.6 billion in July, up $17.4 billion from $71.2 billion in June. 

Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)  

  • A FMC administrative legislation choose ordered CMA CGM to pay importer PKDC greater than $16.7 million, discovering that the provider dedicated a number of Shipping Act violations. 
  • A FMC administrative legislation choose approved a confidential settlement to settle allegations by Samsung Electronics America that ocean provider Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd. (OOCL) didn’t carry out its transportation obligations and charged unfair charges.  
  • A FMC small claims officer ordered New York-based ocean transportation middleman Transparent International to pay greater than $26,000 to 5 people for abandoning their cargo and ceasing communication with them. 

Congress 

  • A bipartisan group of House of Representatives members sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin requesting a briefing on the Department’s implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). 

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