On July 17, the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for July 18:
In a case on the tariff classification of Latitudes International Fragrance’s diffuser bottles, the Court of International Trade ruled July 17 that the product is a bottle for the conveyance of scented oil, rather than decorative glassware. Latitudes, a U.S. importer doing business as Maesa Home, argued the bottles are simple vessels bought for the scented oil and reeds they contain. The court agreed, finding the bottles’ decorative function was secondary.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 17, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
A bipartisan group of congressmen on July 17 introduced legislation in the House of Representatives to renew the Generalized System of Preferences Program. Reps. Dave Camp, R-Mich., Sandy Levin, D-Mich., Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., introduced HR-2709 (here) to extend the GSP program until Sept. 30, 2015. The program is currently set to expire July 31. The renewal legislation makes no other changes GSP, amending only the expiration date.
Tulane University Law School’s Payson Center for International Development is undertaking a survey on the economic impact of the Security and Exchange Commission’s conflict minerals rule. The regulation, which went into effect in November 2012, requires companies to publicly disclose their use of conflict minerals that originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country. Tulane said the purpose of the survey is to gauge how companies affected by the conflict minerals rule are mobilizing resources to meet the requirements. “Through a short, anonymous, online-based survey, we intend to get the facts and numbers directly from the multitude of affected companies,” said the survey website. The deadline for participation is Aug. 9.
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the July 17 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the July 17 Federal Register on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The International Trade Administration issued its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anticircumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope and anticircumvention rulings for the period Jan. 1, 2013, through March 31, 2013:
Cased pencils from China exported by Dixon will no longer be subject to antidumping duties, after the Commerce Department found a third consecutive zero AD rate for Dixon in the final results of an administrative review on cased pencils from China (A-570-827), and decided to partially revoke for the company. Entries of cased pencils exported by Dixon will be liquidated without regard to antidumping duties, and they will no longer be subject to a cash deposit requirement. The partial revocation is effective July 18.