A New York resident brought a complaint to the Court of International Trade Nov. 21 saying that several questions on CBP’s customs broker exam were unfairly ambiguous, conflicting or lacking essential information, resulting in his failure to pass it (Shuangyang Li v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CIT # 24-00205).
CBP has released its Nov. 20 Customs Bulletin (Nov. 58, No. 46), which includes the following ruling actions:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Nov. 11-17:
The Court of International Trade dismissed Byungmin Chae's second lawsuit challenging his results of the April 2018 customs broker license exam, finding that the suit is precluded by the Nebraska resident's first case challenging the test.
A Vietnamese exporter is now eligible for certification processes to exempt Vietnamese solar cells from antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells from China (A-570-979/C-570-980), the Commerce Department said in a Nov. 12 notice.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Nov. 4-10:
The Commerce Department is amending the Oct. 25, 2021, final determination in an antidumping duty investigation on polyester textured yarn from Indonesia (A-560-838), based on the final decision, handed down last month in an Oct. 11 Court of International Trade case challenging those final results. Commerce calculated a revised antidumping duty rate for one respondent, PT. Asia Pacific Fibers Tbk, changing it from 26.07% to 9.2%. This rate change also affected the "all-others" rate in the investigation, which moved higher, from 7.47% to 8.72%.
CBP has released its Nov. 6 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 44), which includes the following ruling action:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Oct. 28 - Nov. 3:
The Court of International Trade rejected importer Retractable Technologies' bids for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction stopping the collection of Section 301 duties on its needles and syringes. However, in a decision made public Nov. 4, Judge Claire Kelly did stop liquidation of Retractable's entries during the course of the company's suit, which challenges the legality of a Section 301 rate hike on needles and syringes.