International Trade Today is a service of Warren Communications News.
Subscriber Login
Penalties and Courts
to
Refine Category Search
Clear Terms

Search Primer

Multi-word term: Place inside quotes to ensure an exact match together (e.g. "forced labor").

Term list: Separate terms with spaces, not commas or semicolons to find either word (e.g. AD/CVD CBP).

Acronyms: Use all capital letters (e.g., ACE).

Required term: If a term must be included in any resulting articles, prefix it with a plus sign (e.g., tariffs +Canada).

Excluded term: If a term should be excluded from any articles being found, prefix it with a minus sign (e.g., FDA -alert).

Simplest form: Use the simplest form of a term (e.g. "metal" instead of "metals" or "entity list" instead of "entity listing" or "entity listed").

Former Acting DHS IG Pleads Guilty to Stealing Proprietary Software
January 14, 2022 |Penalties and Courts

Charles Edwards, former acting inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General, pleaded guilty Jan. 14 to his role in a scheme to steal "proprietary software and sensitive databases" from the federal government, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia said. Edwards worked for DHS-OIG from 2008 to 2013, where he had access to software systems for case management and for storing sensitive personal identification information of employees. Edwards left DHS and founded Delta Business Solutions. The government said that from at least 2015 to 2017, he stole software from DHS-OIG to use in developing commercial case management software that his company could then sell to government agencies, it said.

FMC Adjusts Penalties for Inflation
January 13, 2022 |Penalties and Courts

The Federal Maritime Commission is adjusting its civil monetary penalties for inflation, the agency said in a notice released Jan. 13. The new amounts include higher maximum penalties for various violations of the Shipping Act and other shipping rules, including “adverse impact on U.S. carriers by foreign shipping practices.” The changes take effect Jan. 15.

CBP AD and CV Messages as of Dec. 22
December 23, 2021 |Penalties and Courts

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Dec. 22, 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 CBP's ADD CVD Search page.

Commerce Flips Scope Finding on Remand, Excludes Door Thresholds From Extrusions Orders
December 15, 2021 by Jacob Kopnick|Penalties and Courts

The Commerce Department found that two companies' door thresholds qualify for the finished merchandise exclusion to the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on aluminum extrusions from China, in a pair of remand results at the Court of International Trade, reversing its position on the issue under protest. The remand results came after a court opinion that did not agree with Commerce's original holding that the door thresholds from Worldwide Door Components and Columbia Aluminum Products were subassemblies that required further incorporation into a larger downstream product (Worldwide Door Components, Inc. v. United States, CIT #19-00012) (Columbia Aluminum Products, LLC v. United States, CIT # 19-00013).

Topics:Customs duty, Court of International Trade