The Court of International Trade on May 27 entered default judgment against importer Rayson Global and its owner Doris Cheng in a customs penalty case after previously denying the government's bid for default judgment. In its second attempt to secure default judgment, the U.S. further defended its claim that the merchandise at issue is valued at nearly $3.4 million (United States v. Rayson Global, CIT # 23-00201).
The Commerce Department, after suggesting that the import of semiconductors, products containing semiconductors, and equipment and inputs used to make chips could be making the U.S. vulnerable to supply chain disruptions, is now hearing from dozens of stakeholders who say the administration has it completely backwards. Time after time, in more than 150 submitted comments for the Section 232 investigation, stakeholders said imposing tariffs is what would lead to shortages, manufacturing woes, and a loss of competitiveness in the design and manufacture of chips.
CBP will soon seek Office of Management and Budget approval for a series of recently announced changes to its Global Business Identifier pilot, according to a notice released May 27. That includes an expansion of identifiers used in the pilot, as well as of entities involved. Comments are due July 28, and summaries of the comments will be included along with the submission to OMB.
CBP announced in a May 27 cargo systems message that the ACE support biweekly trade call "has been discontinued until further notice." The agency didn't give a reason for the halt in service.
The Commerce Department slightly increased the antidumping duty rate applicable to some exporters of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from India (A-533-857), it said in a correction to a notice of final results of the antidumping duty administrative review for the period Sept. 1, 2022, through Aug. 31, 2023, originally published May 13. The agency had set a zero percent AD duty cash deposit rate for Surya Roshni Ltd., but erroneously stated that the “all-others” cash deposit rate was zero percent, it said. That “all-others” cash deposit rate, which applies to all Indian exporters that have never received individual rates for their exports of OCTG from India, should be 0.6%, Commerce said. (See 2505120010 for a summary of the original final results of this review.)
On May 22, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on raw honey from Argentina (A-357-823), which became effective April 14. The change is to correct ministerial errors in the calculations of the rates for entries of subject merchandise from one company during the period Nov. 23, 2021, through May 31, 2023.
The U.S. is the country of origin for platform software manufactured by Unifyia, according to a May 15 final determination announced via notice set for publication in the Federal Register.
Canada is the country of origin for two models of meeting tables manufactured by Global Industries, according to a notice released by CBP May 22.