A customs broker exam taker who is appealing his failing score is asking the Court of International Trade to overturn CBP’s denial of credit for seven questions from the April 2018 test. In a brief filed Oct. 1, Byungmin Chae says CBP erroneously graded his customs broker exam, denying him a broker license on its mistaken finding that he did not score 75 percent or higher.
FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Oct. 6, listing the status of recalls and field corrections for food, cosmetics, tobacco products, drugs, biologics and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
Gluten-free pastas made from soybean flour are classifiable in the tariff schedule as pasta of heading 1902, rather than as soybean preparations of heading 2008, said CBP in a recent ruling. Instructing the port to grant the importer’s protest, CBP headquarters ruled that pasta describes food that has undergone a particular manufacturing process, and is not limited to a specific kind of flour.
FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Sept. 29, listing the status of recalls and field corrections for food, cosmetics, tobacco products, drugs, biologics and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Sept. 22, listing the status of recalls and field corrections for food, cosmetics, tobacco products, drugs, biologics and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Sept. 23 released a final rule that sets a quota system for imports of hydrofluorocarbons that will eventually reduce imports of the greenhouse gases by 85 percent by 2036. The new regulations provide for company-specific allocations of allowances to import HFCs in 2022 and 2023, with allowances after that to be set in a future Federal Register notice. EPA intends to issue 2022 allowances by Oct. 1, it said in the final rule, which has yet to be scheduled for publication.
More than 190 solar companies sent a letter Sept. 22 to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo urging the rejection of requests to begin anti-circumvention inquiries on solar cells and panels from Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. “Steep duties proposed by an anonymous group of petitioners would devastate thousands of U.S. solar companies and cause the industry to miss out on 18 gigawatts (GW) of solar deployment by 2023,” the Solar Energy Industries Association said in a press release.
As the sixth implementation phase of Lacey Act declaration requirements for plants and plant products approaches Oct. 1, officials with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service reminded importers and exporters that more phases are to come before the agency meets its statutorily required goal of subjecting all plants and plant products to Lacey Act enforcement.
Importers should be reviewing existing tariff classifications for their products and planning ahead for major changes to the tariff schedule that will take effect Jan. 1 when the U.S. implements 2022 changes to the global Harmonized System, Flexport’s Adam Dambrov said during a Sept. 15 webinar. Particularly affected by the changes are goods of chapters 44, 84 and 85, with some changes to chapter notes also resulting in changes for textiles and apparel.
The Commerce Department will change its scope ruling procedures so that entries prior to the initiation of the scope inquiry are normally subject to suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements, but in a change from a 2020 proposal, will allow for requests to suspend liquidation at a later date, it said in a final rule amending its antidumping and countervailing duty regulations released Sept. 16.