U.S. priorities during the World Trade Organization's upcoming 13th Ministerial Conference should center on extending the moratorium on e-commerce duties and advancing the second wave of talks on curbing harmful fisheries subsidies, witnesses said at a Feb. 7 hearing of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade.
The House of Representatives did not have the votes to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Feb. 6. However, the Republican majority may try again when Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., is back in Washington. He is undergoing treatment for cancer and was not there for the vote.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 6, 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 ADCVD Search page.
CBP has released its Feb. 7 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 5). While it contains recent court decisions, no customs rulings are included.
Forbes reported that Walmart's online platform and Amazon have listings for canned tomatoes or tomato paste from the brands Nina, Gino and Zehrat Safa, and it said those brands are produced by Heibei Tomato Industry. That Chinese company says on "its website that 'raw materials come from Xinjiang,'" the article said.
The Federal Maritime Commission may need to change the way it adjudicates emergency surcharge waivers requested by carriers, at least one shipping industry official said during an informal Feb. 7 FMC hearing on Red Sea shipping disruptions.
Trade groups representing importers of motor vehicles are asking the Interagency Autos Committee to advocate for allowing used cars made during the NAFTA years to enter duty free if those vehicles qualified for NAFTA benefits, and to make it easier to prove that cars built since July 1, 2020, qualify for USMCA tariff benefits.
CBP is now accepting applications to become approved accreditors of customs broker continuing education activities under a recent final rule that requires brokers to complete 36 hours of continuing education every three years to maintain their licenses (see 2306220036).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 6 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 on Feb. 6 published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on forged steel fluid end blocks from Italy (A-475-840/C-475-841). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD and CVD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.