The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a general exclusion order in its section 337 patent-based investigation of certain recordable compact discs and rewritable compact discs (Inv. No. 337-TA-474).
In Timber Products Co. v. U.S., the Court of International Trade ruled on remand that certain Brazilian plywood made from wood of differing species is classifiable under HTS 4412.14.30 (1997, 8%), a residual provision for plywood, rather than under HTS 4412.13.40 (1997, GSP duty-free), which includes plywood made with at least one outer ply of tropical woods.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice which requests comments on whether it should apply the countervailing (CV) duty law to imports from China.
According to The Journal of Commerce, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Basham stated at CBP's 7th Annual Trade Symposium that the agency intends to implement rules requiring importers to provide additional data to identify high-risk ocean shipments - the 10 2 data - by the end of summer 2007. Basham stated that Customs is not going to implement all the data requirements at once, but will phase them in to minimize their impact. (JoC, dated 12/14/06, available at www.joc.com )
In Saab Cars USA, Inc. v. U.S., the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed the Court of International Trade's (CIT's) decision to grant claims for duty allowances for port repair expenses and deny claims (except for one claim involving three vehicles) for duty allowances for warranty expenses.
The International Trade Administration has published a "Timken"1 notice stating that a recent Court of International Trade's ruling is not in harmony with the ITA's final results of AD duty administrative review for helical spring lock washers from China, for the review period October 1, 2002 through September 30, 2003, with respect to Hangzhou Spring Washer Co., Ltd. (Hangzhou).
In Jazz Photo Corporation v. United States and Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., the CAFC affirmed the CIT's order that Customs release for entry certain Jazz disposable cameras from two shipments and allow Jazz to complete the process of segregating the two shipments of disposable cameras under the supervision of Customs. (Customs had excluded the two shipments based on a General Exclusion Order issued by the International Trade Commission to prevent imports which infringe Fuji's patent.)
In Motorola, Inc. v. U.S., the Court of International Trade (CIT) determined on remand that neither the liquidation of 900 bypass entries nor the issuance of two preclassification ruling letters constitutes "treatment" under 19 USC 1625(c)(2), as interpreted in light of 19 CFR 177.12(c)(1)(ii).
In Retamal and Galvin v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, The CAFC rules that it did not have subject matter jurisdiction to consider the revocation of a customs broker's license for failure to timely file a Triennial Status Report, and remanded the case back to the CIT for dismissal.
In U.S. v. UPS Customhouse Brokerage, Inc., dba UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc., the Court of International Trade (CIT) has certified UPS' immediate interlocutory appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on the following question of law regarding multiple broker penalties: