Contradictory language in the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act -- which says the government may list entities that source items from Xinjiang, but says that the rebuttable presumption only applies to goods "produced by an entity on a list" -- may result in more litigation over the entity list, trade mavens say.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on non-refillable steel cylinders from China (A-570-126). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies under review entered May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023.
CBP has imposed interim measures on 10 companies cited for allegedly evading antidumping and countervailing duties when importing oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from China.
The Commerce Department on June 5 announced a large decrease in antidumping duty cash deposit rates in effect for aluminum extrusions from Turkey (A-489-850), amending its preliminary determination in an ongoing AD investigation to correct calculation errors in the original. Effective May 7, the date that liquidation was suspended and AD cash deposit rates first took effect under the preliminary determination, the unadjusted AD rate for Erdoganlar falls from 85.14% to 10.11%, and the AD rate for Sistem falls from 45.41% to 19.86%. The unadjusted all-others rate consequently falls from 73.43% to 12.98%, and Commerce is also lowering the penalty rate assigned to non-cooperative companies from 605.72% to 48.43% (37.26% when adjusted for cash deposit purposes). The new rates are as follows:
Seko Logistics will still pursue its lawsuit challenging CBP's suspension of the company from Type 86 filing and the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, despite CBP's conditional reinstatement of the customs broker, according to a June 4 statement from the company. The Chicago-area customs broker and freight forwarder says CBP still hasn’t fully provided its reasons for Seko’s initial suspension.
U.S. importer Water Pik will avoid Section 301 duties on its electromechanical oral hygiene devices from China after arguing that CBP should have classified them under a different Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading (Water Pik v. United States, CIT # 23-00083).
Two models of upholstered wood chairs manufactured by Indianapolis-area furniture maker University Loft Co. qualify to be part of the U.S. government’s "Buy American" procurement program even though some of the chairs’ components were imported from China, CBP ruled recently.
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The Commerce Department is amending its preliminary antidumping duty determination on aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (A-570-156) to correct a calculation error in the AD rate for Fujifilm China. As a result of the correction, the cash deposit rate in effect for Fujifilm China will increase substantially, from 38.57% to 164.3%. As a result of the increase, in order to keep the China-wide rate above Fujifilm's new rate, Commerce is also increasing the China-wide rate from 107.61% to 477.59%
A bipartisan bill to amend the Lacey Act was introduced in the House of Representatives, and it would add a ban on import and export of "prohibited primate species." The bill's text was published this week. Reps. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., Nancy Mace, R-S.C., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Joe Neguse, D-Colo., were the original sponsors; 15 other co-sponsors have joined the bill since its introduction.