The National Marine Fisheries Service issued a final rule listing 22 species of coral in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific as threatened. Newly listed species include boulder star, elkhorn, lobed star, mountainous star, pillar, rough cactus, and staghorn corals. The listings take effect Oct. 10.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Sept. 1-7:
The Court of International Trade on Sept. 8 dismissed an importer’s challenge to CBP’s liquidation of entries subject to antidumping duties. Carbon Activated, an importer of activated carbon, said the entries were improperly liquidated and should have still been subject to suspension of liquidation. It argued the deadline for filing suit ran from the date it found out about the errant liquidations four years later. But CIT, holding that as an importer Carbon Activated was required to keep tabs on the status of its entries, said the company should have seen the liquidation, filed a protest within 180 days, and challenged the denied protest. With the relevant deadlines long past, the court found it couldn’t hear the case.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Sept. 8, 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 http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Sept. 8 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Sept. 8 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 Commerce Department issued countervailing duty orders on oil country tubular goods from India (C-533-858) and Turkey (C-489-817). For some Indian exporters, the order details a "gap period" of April 22 - Sept. 5 of no CV duty liability due to the expiration of the "provisional measures" period. Rates for some Indian companies rose slightly as Commerce corrected a calculation error.
On Sept. 5 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Sept. 5 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing a change to its procedures for setting fruit and vegetable import requirements. Under the proposed rule, APHIS would no longer go through a normal rulemaking process for changes to import requirements. Instead, the agency would simply publish a notice in the Federal Register advising the public of the change. APHIS would still give the public a chance to comment before changes are made through publication of a “pest risk analysis” document detailing the agency’s scientific rationale. Comments on the proposed rule are due Nov. 10.