U.S. Auto Parts seeks a court order barring CBP from imposing “baseless and excessive” single entry bond requirements on its shipments for purported intellectual property rights violations, it said in a complaint filed April 2. CBP Norfolk is requiring a bond of three times entered value on all of the importer’s entries due to concerns that U.S. Auto Parts is importing aftermarket replacement auto grilles that infringe trademarks held by the car manufacturers. But the allegedly infringing parts only make up a small portion of its overall imports, and in any case should not be considered counterfeit, U.S. Auto Parts said.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of March 26 - April 1:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on April 2 affirmed a lower court ruling that dinnerware decorated with Christmas or Thanksgiving themes are not classifiable in a special duty-free subheading for articles used in religious or cultural rituals. Though it faulted the Court of International Trade’s narrow interpretation of what constitutes a ritual, it still found WWRD’s Christmas and Thanksgiving dinnerware should not be classified alongside items with more specific purposes like menorahs and communion cups.
Instructions not to assess antidumping duties on “unliquidated” entries also apply to entries that have been liquidated but not finalized because they are still protestable, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said in a March 30 decision. Overturning a Court of International Trade ruling from 2016 (see 1610250042), the Federal Circuit held that the Commerce Department’s revocation of antidumping duties on German steel may apply to several of ThyssenKrupp’s entries that had already been liquidated by the time the revocation was announced.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of March 19-25:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of March 12-18:
The National Marine Fisheries Service on March 16 announced the release of its first “List of Foreign Fisheries” that must meet comparability guidelines by 2022 or else have their fish products become ineligible for importation. The new list puts foreign fisheries in one of two categories -- “export” and “exempt” -- that have different marine mammal protection requirements these fisheries and their home countries must meet before being declared eligible for importation.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of March 5-11:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 26 - March 4:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 19-25: