On February 25, 2009 the American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI) sent a letter to President Obama advocating a "stimulus package for trade."
CBP has posted a summary of changes to the Automated Export System Trade Interface Requirements (AESTIR) to its Web site, indicating that Version 1.0 was changed on February 24, 2009 as follows:
In Outer Circle Products v. U.S., the Court of International Trade upheld Customs' classification of bottle and jug wraps under HTS 4202.92.20 as "bottle cases""with outer surface of sheeting of plastic or of textile materials, other" at a duty rate of 19.3%.
On February 2, 2009, Senator Snowe1 (R) introduced the Trade Complaint and Litigation Accountability Improvement Measures Act of 2009 (the Trade CLAIM Act, S. 363), a bill aimed at strengthening and improving the enforcement of U.S. trade rights.
The International Trade Administration has issued a "Timken" notice of a Court of International Trade (CIT) decision not in harmony with the International Trade Commission's final negative injury determinations in the antidumping duty investigations of diamond sawblades and parts thereof from China and Korea.
In the February 5, 2009 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 43, No. 7), CBP published a notice proposing to revoke two rulings and a treatment as follows:
The International Trade Administration has issued a "Timken" notice of a Court of International Trade (CIT) decision not in harmony with the ITA's final affirmative antidumping duty determination for wooden bedroom furniture from China.
The following are the trade-related bills and resolutions that were introduced in the House or Senate during February 2-6, 2009:
CBP has posted an updated version of its fact sheet on the benefits of ACE for sureties. The list of benefits has been updated to state that sureties can run a custom bond report as well as created customized reports and to state that sureties can query a bond by "Bond Number," "Bond Activity Code," or "Bond Status." The additional information section has also been updated to state that additional information is alsoavailable on the ACE training and Reference Guides pages on www.cbp.gov/modernization. (Fact sheet, dated 02/03/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/fact_sheets/trade/ace_factsheets/ace_overview/sureties_fact_sheet.xml)
The following Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) and Court of International Trade (CIT) cases on international trade issues were dated, decided, or posted during the period of November 24 - December 16, 2008: