The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of Dec. 30 - Jan. 5 and Jan. 6-12:
CBP has released its Jan. 8 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 2), which includes the following ruling actions:
The Court of International Trade on Jan. 8 denied the government's bid for default judgment against importer Rayson Global and its owner and CEO Doris Cheng in a customs penalty case, with Judge Timothy Stanceu taking issue with the U.S. claim for a monetary penalty totaling nearly $3.4 million.
CBP has released its Jan. 1 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 1). It contains two notices of information collection activities, one related to the declaration of free entry of returned American products (CBP Form 3311), and the other on documentation requirements for articles entered under various special tariff treatment provisions -- that is, articles classified under subheadings 9801.00.10, 9802.00.20, 9802.00.40, 9802.00.50, 9802.00.60 and 9817.00.40.
The Commerce Department is amending countervailing duty rates set in its original CVD investigations on forged steel fluid end blocks from Germany (C-428-848) originally published Dec. 11, 2020, to align with the final decision in a court case that challenged the way the CVD rates were calculated.
The Commerce Department has published amended final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (C-570-980), originally published July 11, 2023, to align with the final decision in a court case that challenged a rate in those results.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of Dec. 16-22 and 23-29:
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CBP has released its Dec. 25 Customs Bulletin (Vo. 58, No. 51). It contains:
Aluminum extrusions exporter Kingtom Aluminio, which operates out of the Dominican Republic, brought a complaint to the Court of International Trade on Dec. 23 to challenge CBP’s finding that the exporter had used forced labor (Kingtom Aluminio v. U.S., CIT # 24-00264).