The Consumer Product Safety Commission has voted to require imported consumer products regulated by the CPSC to have their certificates of compliance filed electronically.
Shein, which has made its business selling fast fashion from Chinese manufacturers in de minimis packages to American consumers, announced Dec. 19 that it has begun participating in the Section 321 Data Pilot program. The Section 321 pilot is smaller and requires less data than Type 86 filing. The company said it had been participating more than 30 days, and CBP confirmed that it was receiving all the relevant import entry information for the data pilot.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from Germany (C-428-848). Commerce preliminarily calculated a CVD rate of 3.51% for BGH Edelstahl Siegen GmbH and its cross-owned affiliates, the only company still covered by the review. Any changes to BGH's cash deposit rates would take effect on the publication date of the final results of the review. Once Commerce issues its final results of this review, the agency will assess CVD for entries of subject merchandise from BGH entered Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023, it said.
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether all imports of oil country tubular goods from Thailand made from Chinese steel billets are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on oil country tubular goods from China (A-570-943/C-570-944), it said Dec. 18.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on certain aluminum foil from China (C-570-054), published Nov. 12, to correct a ministerial error that affected the duty rate calculations in those final results. The new rates will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2022.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is restricting imports of animal commodities originating from or transiting through El Salvador, after detecting New World screwworm in cattle in the country, USDA announced in a news release Dec. 17.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 9-15:
Donald Trump's return to the White House brings a "lack of predictability," Baker McKenzie attorneys said during a webinar last week on how threatened tariffs could affect countries around the globe.
The National Marine Fisheries Service seeks to revise regulations to allow for the streamlining of electronic filing requirements pertaining to the import of fish or fish products, according to a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register.
Congress will pass a spending bill before leaving next week, and while everyone wants to attach their legislation to it, the prospect for Haitian trade preferences to get a ride seems relatively strong.