Import and Trade Remedies

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From May to August 2023, the Government passed into law novel supply chain transparency legislation and introduced amendments and legislative proposals that are impacting, or will impact, compliance with Canadian customs, export controls, and economic sanctions legislation.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

Cost Accounting Section 802 amends 10 U.S.C. 3705, which requires offerors to submit data other than certified cost or pricing data so that contracting officers may determine the price reasonableness of a contract, subcontract, or modification. The provision amends the reporting requirement under 10 U.S.C.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 5, 2024

Particularly, the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (“PCE”) core inflation rate for January 2024 was 2.8%. [30] 33] Importantly, since the inflation high water marks of 2022, mostly what has occurred is disinflation (decrease of the inflation rate), not actual deflation (price decreases). down from 5.5%

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AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 22, 2024

AWS specialized cloud-optimized chips enable high-performance at cost-effective prices. AWS provides freedom with its pay-as-you-go model, allowing customers to shut down environments, export data and workloads, and walk away without future expenses.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 4, 2024

Potential Changes to FSS EPA Clauses As you know, one of the Coalition’s priorities in 2022 and 2023 was to increase flexibility in the application of Economic Price Adjustments (EPAs) in the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program during a time of historic inflation. To register, click here.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 16, 2023

Department of Labor (“DoL”), Bureau of Labor Statistics (“BLS”) Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (“CPI-U”). 3] Because economists often consider food and energy prices to be too volatile, they may pull those items out to see what is called “core inflation.” [4] Here, I provide some of the latest information and updates.

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GovCon & Trade

AUGUST 28, 2023

On August 1, exemplifying this theme, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied the issuance of a waiver as it failed to include a reasonable market survey supporting the requestor’s claim that the domestic products were unreasonably costly. The GAO agreed with Unico, finding the waiver was improperly granted.

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

MARCH 24, 2025

As of 2023, the US was the UKs largest single export market, accounting for approximately 21.7% of total UK exports, valued at 186.7 UK businesses that rely on exporting to the US or importing US goods will face increased costs. billion (ONS, 2024). Conversely, the UK imported goods and services worth 115.4

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Import and Trade Remedies

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The CBAM proposal forms part of the UK Government’s wider strategy to tackle carbon leakage, which is caused by the movement of production activities and associated emissions from one country to another as a result of different levels of carbon pricing and climate regulation. placed under customs warehousing or inward processing relief).

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2025

When farmers receive a fair price for their harvest, they can farm sustainably, keep their kids in school, and reduce the risk of displacement. Its particularly easy to lose track of where an ingredient comes from, especially as the ingredient passes through multiple steps of being exported, imported and processed.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

There are specific dashboards that analyze prices on the central e-catalog , medical procurement , buyer evaluations , Energy Services Company (ESCO) procurement, or internal auditing practices. Data can be exported in Excel format from custom selections for further exploration in any system.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Save for a carveout for spending related to national security concerns, our federal tax dollars, distributed through contracts, grants, loans, and direct payments, are thoroughly accounted for with a healthy amount of detail. USASpending.Gov Photo: Homepage of usaspending.gov, February 17th, 2025. Some rights reserved.

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Import and Trade Remedies

MARCH 13, 2025

How can businesses prepare Businesses should be aware of their import and export volumes in the US and the EU, broken down by products and current tariff rates. If no disapproval is issued within these 30 days, the retaliatory tariffs will take effect the day after this period expires (which is expected to be mid-May).

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Import and Trade Remedies

JANUARY 10, 2025

Methods include export controls and reforms to export VAT refund rates for certain products, such as batteries, oils, and solar panels. origin or products exported to China from a non-U.S. Inter-company pricing : This mechanism is implemented by provinces. with non-U.S. country but supplied by a U.S.-headquartered

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Import and Trade Remedies

MARCH 4, 2025

The following announcements have been made as of 2:00 PM EST on March 4, 2025: Province Proposed Countermeasures Ontario Should further tariffs comes into effect, apply a 25% export tax to all electricity sent from Ontario to New York, Michigan and Minnesota. How do importers account for the surtax? The timing is unclear.

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