When a declaration is made on the Automated Commercial Environment portal, the system will automatically check for duplicate Harmonized Tariff Schedule numbers, case numbers and manufacturer IDs before submission is permitted, CBP said. This was part of a series of updates CBP made to the ACE Portal that was highlighted in an April 25 CSMS message.
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements is adding a double-knit jacquard fabric to the "short supply list" in Annex 3.25 of the Dominican Republic-Central America-United Sates Free Trade Agreement for items not commercially available in a timely manner, it said in a notice. Lacoste requested the additions in December. The fabric, classifiable under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 6006.33, is being added in unrestricted quantities. Under short supply provisions of CAFTA-DR, fibers, yarns and fabrics listed in Annex 3.25 are provided with tariff preferences under the trade agreement.
A U.S. manufacturer seeks the imposition of new antidumping and countervailing duties on alkyl phosphate esters from China, it said in petitions filed last week with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders on alkyl phosphate esters, used among other things as a fire retardant in foams and plastics, and the assessment of AD/CVD on importers. The investigations were requested by ICL-IP America.
The Commerce Department issued a notice in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on ferrosilicon from Brazil (A-351-860/C-351-861), Kazakhstan (A-834-812/C-834/813), Malaysia (A-557-828/C-557-829) and Russia (A-821-838/C-821-839). The CVD investigations and the AD investigations on Brazil, Kazakhstan and Malaysia cover entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigation on Russia covers entries made July 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements seeks comments by May 24 on a request by Canada to change the USMCA rules of origin for a fabric used in the production of fire hose. Canada says there is no commercial availability in the U.S., Canada or Mexico of “high-tenacity polyester yarn, single or multiple, multifilament, untwisted, untextured, and measuring more than 920 decitex, used in the production of fire hose, with or without lining, armor or accessories of other materials.” The yarn is classifiable in subheading 5402.20, and “end-use classification” for the fire hose is heading 5909.
A domestic producer coalition filed a petitions April 19 with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping and countervailing duties on ceramic tile from India. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers.
The Commerce Department has issued a Federal Register notice on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on dioctyl terephthalate from Malaysia (A-557-827), Poland (A-455-808), Taiwan (A-583-875) and Turkey (A-489-852) (see 2404170073). The agency will determine whether imports of DOTP are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The investigations cover entries during the period Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.
Although all members of the House Ways and Means Committee supported a bill renewing the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program, the bill proceeded to the House floor on a split bipartisan vote of 17-24 as Democrats unsuccessfully called to include an extension of the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers program, which lapsed in 2022.
FORT LAUDERDALE -- The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will “hopefully” publish its notice launching Phase VII of Lacey Act Enforcement “in the next two-ish months,” said Erin Otto, of the agency’s Lacey Act program, on April 16. That will trigger a six-month countdown until full enforcement of Phase VII, which covers all non-composite plant products that Lacey Act requirements haven't previously covered.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of April 8-14: