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What changed this week for buyers importing from China into the United States

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What a trade-remedy notice actually changes for an importer

Trade-remedy actions apply to specific tariff classifications from specific origins. Whether a notice affects you depends on your HTS line, not on your product category.

Source: Office of the United States Trade Representative

Children's product certificates: the importer is the certifier

For imported children's products, the certificate is issued by the importer on the basis of testing by a CPSC-accepted laboratory — a supplier's certificate for a similar model does not transfer.

Source: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

First-to-file: why brands get blocked at their own factory's door

A US trademark gives no rights in China. Because China operates a first-to-file system, an unregistered brand manufactured there can be registered by someone else — and then used to stop the export.

Source: United States Patent and Trademark Office

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