FPA Tariff Newsletter Offers Links to New Developments

The Flexible Packaging Association’s (FPA’s) biweekly tariff update includes some practical links to online information about recent developments with trade initiatives.

The April 22, 2025, newsletter notes that the tariff landscape continues to shift, making many new developments quickly outdated. But the newsletter, which is only available to FPA members, provides useful links, including:

The official announcement on April 9, 2025, that the reciprocal tariffs will be temporarily paused;
The announcement on the exemptions on a number of electronics coming from China;
Guidance from U.S. Customs and Border Control on an updated cargo systems messaging service; and
A list of critical minerals that can be found on the website of the U.S. Geological Survey. President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order directing a review of the list, which was last published in 2022, and that includes aluminum among the 50 minerals deemed as critical to the U.S.

The newsletter also reviews the status of reciprocal tariffs announced by other countries.

And it mentions several domestic lawsuits challenging Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to justify tariffs. For example, a legal advocacy group, New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), filed a suit on behalf of a small stationery business based in Florida. The suit claims that the use of the IEEPA is unlawful.

“NCLA’s lawsuit does not quibble with President Trump’s declaration of an opioid-related emergency, but it does take issue with his decision to impose tariffs in response, without legal authority to do so,” according to an NCLA news release.

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