The Census Bureau updated Automated Export System (AES) Port of Export Codes for four Texas ports to allow for “Air” as the mode of transportation. The codes now allow for both Vessel and Air modes of transport, Census said. Codes were updated for the following ports:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers filed a joint challenge of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s conflict minerals rule with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Oct. 19. The final rule, published Sept. 12, requires some companies using tantalum, tin, gold or tungsten to disclose use of the minerals and possibly file a detailed report. The Chamber and NAM also challenged the underlying provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act. The appeal provided no details on the challenge, but simply requested that the conflict minerals rule be modified or set aside.
Wilton Industries appealed a Court of International Trade judgment that found in favor of CBP’s classification of its “Stampin Up!” decorative hole punches for use in scrap booking. Wilton had argued that they are classifiable as cutting machines under Harmonized Tariff Schedule Chapter 84 and should have entered duty free, but CIT said CBP correctly classified them as perforating punches under HTS Chapter 82, dutiable at 3.3 percent. CIT also threw out an agreement between Wilton and CBP that the judgment would only apply to 16 models of Wilton hole punches, instead applying the ruling to all 39 models at issue.
The Court of International Trade affirmed the International Trade Administration’s recalculation of Chinese exporter Shantou Red Garden Foodstuff’s antidumping duty rate in the investigation of certain frozen warmwater shrimp from China (A-570-893). CIT had remanded Red Garden’s 27.89 percent AD rate for recalculation in January. In its remand redetermination, the ITA assigned Red Garden an AD rate of 7.2 percent. CIT objected to the ITA’s use of a single Indian company’s data to calculate the surrogate value for Red Garden’s shrimp inputs in its remand redetermination, despite the availability of country-wide Ecuadorian data. But Red Garden did not object, so CIT affirmed.
A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Oct. 22 in U.S. District Court in Charlotte to trafficking in counterfeit airbags, said Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Igor Borodin, 27, also pleaded guilty to delivering and causing to be delivered hazardous material, that being airbags, by air commerce in violation of rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation.
A Haitian national pleaded guilty Oct. 18 to entry into a seaport under false pretenses, said Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Benedick Dextra obtained fraudulent documents under the name of Benedick Louis. Dextra then used those illegal documents to obtain a New York driver’s license and a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC). This allowed him access to secure areas, such as container terminals in Port Elizabeth, N.J., ICE said.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Oct. 23, 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://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.)
Mexico's Diario Oficial of Oct. 23, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) established a panel to decide the U.S. challenge of Chinese antidumping and countervailing duties on U.S. automobiles, in an Oct. 23 meeting. China said it regretted formation of the panel, and had hoped to work out the dispute through consultations, the WTO reported. The DSB also referred to arbitration and established a compliance panel for the European Union’s complaint that the U.S. has not implemented the WTO’s adverse ruling against subsidies provided to Boeing.
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the Oct. 23 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):