CBP has launched an investigation under the Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA) on Thompson Aluminum Casting Company Inc.’s alleged evasion of antidumping and countervailing duties by importing magnesium metal from China via Turkey.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on xanthan gum from China (A-570-985) to align its revised results with the final decision in a court case that challenged rate calculations in those results. In that review, covering subject merchandise entered July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020, one company, Neimenggu Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd. and several affiliates, was given a zero percent AD rate, and three other companies were given rates above de minimis.
The Commerce Department has published amended final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge from China (C-570-953) originally published Feb. 25, 2020, to align with the final decision in a court case that challenged a rate in those results.
CBP has found evidence supporting a "reasonable suspicion" that Louisville, Kentucky-based AXN Heavy Duty LLC evaded antidumping and countervailing duties when it imported chassis and subassemblies from China, and is suspending liquidation and setting cash deposit requirements for goods from the company.
Major freight railroad Canadian National Railway Co. (CN) said over the weekend that it would lock out members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) if CN and the union haven't been able to hash out a new labor contract or agree to binding arbitration.
USDA is revising the appendices to its Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Import Licensing Regulation for the 2024 tariff-rate quota year, it said in a notice. The agency is transferring the amounts for certain dairy articles from the historical license category (Appendix 1) to the lottery (nonhistorical) license category (Appendix 2) pursuant to the Dairy Tariff-Rate Quota Import Licensing regulations for the 2024 quota year.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., urged the Commerce Department this week to investigate whether the fast-growing online shopping platform Temu, which is owned by Chinese company PDD Holdings, is violating U.S. trade laws.
The State Department this week is publishing a final version of a rule to expand its regulatory definition of activities that don’t need a license because they don’t qualify as exports, reexports, retransfers or temporary imports. The rule, effective Sept. 16, is largely consistent with the proposed version, though the agency made changes to narrow its scope and make sure certain temporary imports will still require a license.
Reps. Josh Harder, D-Calif., and Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., introduced a bill Aug. 13 that would require canned foods to be clearly labeled with the country of origin.
Consumers who purchase the drug omeprazole are the "ultimate" purchasers of imported prescription medication, not the retail pharmacy that may be supplying the drug, the CBP ruled June 14.