The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by Feb. 29 for producers and exporters subject to 43 antidumping duty orders and 15 countervailing duty orders with anniversary dates in February.
On Jan. 31, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Feb. 1:
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework's supply chain pillar will take effect Feb. 24, the Commerce Department announced this week. The pillar is expected to improve coordination among IPEF countries as they look to diversify supply chains, resolve logistical bottlenecks, remove obstacles to trade and more (see 2309080050).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 31, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Jan. 26 declined to dismiss a False Claims Act suit from a whistleblower that alleges her employer misclassified footwear to avoid tariffs. Magistrate Judge Robert Lehrburger said the fact none of the defendants served as the importer of record for the allegedly undervalued footwear imports is irrelevant for purposes of establishing liability under the FCA (United States ex rel. Devin Taylor v. GMI USA Corp., S.D.N.Y. # 16-7216).
McDonald's, Illy, Nestle and other companies responded to allegations from civil society groups that their supply chains in Brazil have ties to forced labor.
CBP is adding a new functionality in ACE that will allow importers to identify entries that are the subject of an antidumping and/or countervailing duty certification and show that, for example, the goods aren't subject to AD/CVD orders, the Commerce Department said in a notice released Feb. 1. The new mechanism will be deployed on May 2 and will make AD/CVD entry summaries more "readily identifiable" to Commerce and CBP, the department said.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 31 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):