CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The country of origin of a Whirlpool food waste disposer is Mexico and Section 301 duties don't apply, CBP said in a customs ruling dated May 15. The agency found that, despite the motor in the garbage disposal being of Chinese origin, the manufacturing process in Mexico substantially transformed the original components into subassemblies, which were then combined to make the final food disposer.
The Council of the European Union last week officially adopted new EU-wide supply chain due diligence rules that will require certain companies to conduct specific due diligence on their supply chains, including to root out forced labor.
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, shortly after the administration chose to keep and expand the Section 301 tariffs (see 2405220072), grappled with what it should recommend to Congress on how to use trade policy to counteract trade distortions from China's communist-run economy.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the May 22 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
Drawing pencils, colored pencils and #2 pencils exported from the Philippines by School Specialty are subject to an antidumping duty order on cased pencils from China, the Commerce Department said in a May 7 scope ruling.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on heavy walled rectangular welded steel pipes and tubes from Mexico (A-201-847) to correct an error in its calculation for the AD rate for entries of subject merchandise from the one mandatory respondent, Productos Laminados de Monterrey S.A. de C.V. (Prolamsa), during the period Sept. 1, 2021, through Aug. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department finalized a new exemption from antidumping and countervailing duties for stainless steel flanges made to SAE J518 or ISO 6162 specification, the agency said in the final results of a changed circumstances review of the AD/CVD orders on stainless steel flanges from China (A-570-064/C-570-065) and India (A-533-877/C-533-878).
The exclusion from solar safeguard tariffs for bifacial solar panels -- originally meant to help utility-scale installations -- is about to end, the Biden administration announced May 16.
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry on allegations that monosodium glutamate made in Malaysia using glutamic acid from China is circumventing the antidumping duty order on MSG from China (A-570-992), the agency said in a notice.