The current scope of ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on aluminum extrusions from 15 countries would impose heavy costs on U.S. manufacturers and consumers, and as written would make it nearly impossible for CBP to administer and importers to comply, said a bevy of large multinational corporations and trade associations in comments filed recently filed with the Commerce Department.

Four styles of womens' and girls' knit upper body garments are classifiable in different subheadings depending on whether the waistband at the bottom of the garments is tight to the body, CBP said in a recent ruling. The ruling, dated Nov. 14, found that one of the women's and the girls' style provided a way to be tightened at the bottom and were classifiable as "other" sweaters, pullovers and waistcoats, while the other two women's styles could not be tightened and are classifiable as blouses or shirts.

A USMCA dispute settlement panel ruled in Canada’s favor in a much-awaited second decision on Canada’s dairy tariff rate quotas, according to a report released by the panel on Nov. 24.

CBP has been threatening ports that it will reduce its presence or even pull out of ports if those ports don't upgrade work space, members of Congress say, and a recently introduced bipartisan bill aims to put a stop to it.

The text of a recent letter sent to the White House by Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Bob Casey, D-Pa., suggests that they have been told there will be reductions in Section 301 tariffs, and they said in the letter that they have serious concerns that these reductions "will enable China and other global competitors to resume their anti-competitive activities without consequences. While not the subject of interagency review, we share similar concerns about reductions in 232 tariffs, as well as related actions that would undermine American steel and aluminum producers as a result of negotiations with the European Union on the Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum."

A spotlight on Uyghur forced labor in auto parts manufacturing that began a year ago (see 2212060054) has not yet resulted in much action from CBP (see 2309210025), but forced labor researchers say that may not continue to be the case.

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The Court of International Trade on Nov. 21 upheld the Commerce Department's order to CBP to assess antidumping duties on exporter Goodluck India's entries subject to the third administrative review of the antidumping duty order on cold-drawn mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy steel from India despite a previous order provisionally excluding the entries from the AD order. Judge Gary Katzmann found Goodluck's previous entries, but not the exporter itself, were excluded from the order.

China is the country of origin for Lexmark printers imported from Mexico for both Section 301 trade duties and country of origin marking, CBP said in a recently released ruling. CBP found that the printer transports incorporated into the printer, which were made in China, were critical for the printer to feed the paper and to print copies, and were the component that imparted essential character, rather than the printed circuit board assemblies, which were assembled in Mexico.

Medicinal products used in animal feeds are properly classified as "antibiotics" under Harmonized Tariff Schedule heading 2941 rather than as "animal feeds" under HTS heading 2309, CBP headquarters said in a recently released ruling.