The International Trade Administration issued the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on honey from China (A-570-863). The ITA assigned mandatory respondent Dongtai Peak Honey the China-wide rate because it did not fully respond to the ITA's questionnaire by the deadline, the ITA said. The new rate is effective Nov. 26, and will be implemented by CBP soon..
On Nov. 21 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Food and Drug Administration issued its weekly Enforcement Report for Nov. 21 that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, drugs, biologics, and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
On Nov. 21-22 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Nov. 21 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service revised export requirements and plant lists for the following countries for Nov. 16-22:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Nov. 23:
The Court of International Trade rejected most of a challenge to the 2011 final determination in the antidumping duty investigation of drill pipe from China (A-570-965), but remanded the International Trade Administration’s surrogate values for drill pipe green tube and labor. CIT remanded the labor surrogate value because the ITA didn’t distinguish between producers and “significant producers” in its average of wage rates in 31 countries. The ITA agreed to the remand in light of recent court rulings against the methodology.
The Court of International Trade accepted the results of a remand of the 2008-09 antidumping administrative review of pure magnesium from China (A-570-832), and ordered Chinese plaintiff Tianjin Magnesium International to pay the costs of the court proceeding. TMI committed fraud during the AD review in an attempt to obtain lower dumping margins, and continued its misleading conduct during the court case by continuing to argue points that it had failed to exhaust during the review, CIT said. “TMI’s actions constitute a frivolous drain of the court’s resources…” CIT said. “TMI’s actions will not be tolerated in future proceedings before this court.”
The Court of International Trade denied Samsung’s challenge to CBP’s Harmonized Tariff Schedule classification of parts used in its plasma screen televisions, saying that CBP correctly found the parts at issue to be flat panel screen assemblies. CBP’s classification had resulted in denial of NAFTA duty free treatment for the televisions, because no tariff-shift rule of origin applies to the flat panel screen assemblies, which were manufactured in Korea. The issues before CBP were similar to those of the protests underlying the Hitachi protest time limit case, currently awaiting a decision on whether the Supreme Court will hear the case. CBP also went over its statutory two-year time limit for Samsung’s protests, but Samsung filed for accelerated disposition rather than challenge CBP on the time limit, and had its protest deemed denied.