The Commerce Department made final affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of brake drums from China (A-570-174) and Turkey (A-489-853) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will continue for entries on or after Jan. 29, the date that the preliminary determinations were published in the Federal Register. Cash deposit rates set in these final determinations take effect June 18.
The Comfy, a "wearable, oversized item covering the front and back with a hood, sleeves, ribbed cuffs, and a marsupial pocket," is a pullover and not a blanket, the Court of International Trade held on June 16. Issuing a decision after a five-day bench trial held last year, Judge Stephen Vaden said, as a matter of fact, The Comfy doesn't protect against "extreme cold," and that, as a matter of law, the item fits under Harmonized Tariff Schedule heading 6110, which provides for pullovers.
CBP is preparing ACE to handle calculating estimated duties from entry summaries that might have more than two Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes attached, according to the agency's latest ACE development and deployment schedule for June.
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The additional in-quota Section 232 tariff rate for British cars will be 7.5% under a deal recently concluded with the U.K., so that the combined most-favored nation and 232 tariff will be 10% as long as imports are under the 100,000 annual tariff rate quota amount, beginning seven days after the June 16 executive order is published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has set new antidumping duty cash deposit requirements for imports of slag pots from China (A-570-196), after finding sales at less than fair value by Chinese producers in the preliminary determination of its AD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take effect for entries on or after June 17.
CBP is planning to deploy an enhancement in the ACE PRODUCTION environment on June 28 that will increase the number of Harmonized Tariff Schedule numbers allowed per entry summary line, from eight HTS numbers to 16 HTS numbers, according to a June 13 cargo systems message.
For derivative aluminum imports where the country of smelt and cast isn't known, importers should report "unknown" and Section 232 duties of 200% will be assessed, CBP said in a June 13 cargo systems message.
A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping and countervailing duties on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Algeria, Bulgaria, Egypt, and Vietnam. Commerce now will 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 Rebar Trade Action Coalition requested the investigation.
The value of the steel in refrigerator-freezers; dryers; washing machines; dishwashers; chest and upright freezers; cooking stoves; ranges and ovens; food waste disposals; and welded wire rack will be taxed at 50%, starting on June 23, the Bureau of Industry and Security said in a notice that will be published in the Federal Register June 16.